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How well would you survive if your entire meal budget was just $4 a day? As part of the San Francisco Food Bank’s Hunger Challenge, for seven days, several notable Bay Area journalists, and bloggers tried to see how well they could manage on the budget of a food stamp recipient.
According to the Food Bank, more than 150,00 people in San Francisco suffer from food insecurity – not knowing from where (or if) their next meal is coming. A longtime partner of United Way, the Food Bank provides food to more than 22,000 families and distributes more than 35 million meals each week.
Doing that takes a lot of volunteers. Recently as part of our 19th annual Week of Caring, we organized more than 400 volunteers who helped pack, sort and distribute tons of food for needy families.
To find out more about how hunger in San Francisco, and what you can do to help visit the San Francisco Food Bank.
Brooke Minters a blogger with Mission Local took the Hunger Challenge. Her struggles seem to be the ones the average person would face having to radically alter your lifestyle
Tuesday: scrambled egg sandwich (breakfast), spaghetti (lunch), fruit (dinner). It takes a lot of planning to stay within a budget. Even though I woke up early to make breakfast and pack my lunch, I failed to plan for dinner. It was also my mother’s birthday, so I wasn’t able to take her out or even to enjoy dinner with her. With no money for food, life had become increasingly limited. I ate a couple of fruit skewers from my mother’s fruit sculpture birthday gift. Was this breaking the rules? I decide people on food stamps do have jobs, and they do have friends and family who share food. Nonetheless, I still went to bed hungry.
You can read more about her attempts to live on that tight budget here.
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