(Editor’s note: Michael Hannigan and Jeff Weinstein have taken the SNAP Challenge, and are eating on the food stamps allowance of $4.80 per day.)
By Michael V. Hannigan
First day out of the gate, the world threw a curve ball at me. I wound up helping the boss with a trial in Palestine. Brown bagging it is one thing, doing it on the road without knowing where you can eat adds a new degree of difficulty.
On top of that, we had clients to deal with during the lunch break.Jeff and I wound up sitting in a restaurant drinking water while our clients ate. Of course, we told our clients about the Snap Challenge, so they understood.
But I feel for people who might get put in that situation. Jeff tried to find something on the menu he could eat and even asked the waiter if he could just have a small side salad, but even that cost too much.
I didn’t have the heart to remind Jeff that you can’t use food stamps in a restaurant, anyway.
The fun part is I have to go to Palestine again tomorrow.
Today’s food
Oatmeal … .20 cents
Two eggs …. .30 cents
4 rolls @ .25 …. $1.00
W/ PB&J ………… $1.00
Egg casserole (sausage on sale) …. $1.50
3 bananas (1 lb.) … .50 cents
Total $4.50
Sounds as though ya’ll did great being in that situation. A lot of people, myself included, would not have had the willpower to stick with the challenge. Congratulations.
Jeff is doing it too? Good on you two guys. Finally a diet on which you’ll both lost weight and eat a lot of protein!
Just curious. Why are y’all doing this? What do you expect to happen because of your doing it? More money given to food stamp programs that are already too over used for the wrong things?
Just trying to spark conversation on an important and sometimes controversial subject.