I’m taking a walk in someone else’s shoes for a week. I’m going to attempt to feed my family off of $18 a day. Which is the basic food stamp allowance. I consider myself pretty damn thrifty when it comes to feeding my family and $18 a day seems like a lot more than I spend. Roughly it’s about $500 a month. Here are the Rules: Hunger Challenge rules:

• Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner spending only $7 per day. ($18 for a family of 3)
• Salt and pepper don’t count but all other seasonings, cooking oils, condiments, snacks, drinks, and everything else do.
• Don’t use food you already own.
• Don’t accept food from family, friends, coworkers and others. Not even the free samples from Costco!
• Try to include fresh produce and healthy protein each day.
• Keep track of expenses, food choices, etc. and share your experiences on United Way of King County’s blog.

I have to cheat a little bit or rather, bend the rules. I bought a half of cow a couple months ago which is residing in my freezer. So when I go to cook my beef dish the ground beef is going to be coming from freezer, not the store. But I will calculate the current ground beef price at QFC. So a little bending. Also it says that I have to buy all new dried spices and herbs. Not happening. My husband already threatened legal separation if I brought home one more spice/herb. Winco has bulk spices, so I just bought a little bulk bag of pizza seasoning for 58cents.  Well, anyway, enough with that. I’ll go over more if and when it comes up.  Also my husband is not big on joining in this little challenge so we are pretending he is involved. He usually just has coffee for breakfast and then Taco bell for lunch. But sake of this we are just pretending that I am making him lunch, he is eating breakfast, etc.

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