Poverty Eating
I'm not tracking as well as I should, but I know I am staying close to (or under) my $5 a day goal. It's relatively easy since I bought huge cuts of meat for Easter and then made soups and stews with leftovers (and still had a huge container of sliced meat). If I was really living on an Ontario Disability Allowance, or welfare, that would not be an option. Also, I'm really lucky that I like my own cooking and don't mind leftovers/casseroles/soups. mermaid_in_heels shared this link today, http://www.scarymommy.com/gwyneth-paltrow-food-bank-nyc-challenge-backlash/. It points up one of the big challenges of this kind of challenge: eating rice and beans for a week is easy. It's less fun when it's for a year - and even then the emergency costs (extra daycare, snacks for cranky overtired kids) would need to come out of that rice and beans budget. OTOH, rice, beans and eggs are exactly what I would choose for inexpensive balanced proteins, supplemented by fruits and vegetables (and Gwyneth doesn't have enough of those, in my view).