Me, too, kk. Hopefully there will be some updates to follow their progress. Let's hope they stick to their food budget faithfully, and that they include lunch. It's hard to put together a week of nutritious meals for $21 and still have a variety of foods. I listened to the NPR interview with the Congresswoman who was shopping for food and wondered aloud how she would get by for a week eating only what she bought with her $21. She would have had more food in her cart if she had included Kraft dinners, the cheapest hotdogs, white bread, Hamburger Helper and other fillers. I'd like to have seen her make that point during the interview and to hear her discuss why she chose the foods she did. Fro...

Me, too, kk. Hopefully there will be some updates to follow their progress. Let's hope they stick to their food budget faithfully, and that they include lunch. It's hard to put together a week of nutritious meals for $21 and still have a variety of foods. I listened to the NPR interview with the Congresswoman who was shopping for food and wondered aloud how she would get by for a week eating only what she bought with her $21. She would have had more food in her cart if she had included Kraft dinners, the cheapest hotdogs, white bread, Hamburger Helper and other fillers. I'd like to have seen her make that point during the interview and to hear her discuss why she chose the foods she did. From her words and tone she obviously had doubts about how she would be able to eat for a week, especially regarding the chicken leg quarters that put her a dollar over budget. She said that she would have to not eat them all. Geez. Considering what she bought she will be too ravenous to forego any of the foods she bought.

How long has the average food stamp allotment been $21?