Following our SNAP challenge blogs throughout the month of March, I received some requests for details about the foods I purchased and how I put them together into meals. Given the cost of meat, I tried to get protein from eggs each day. I made baked eggs twice during the week and ate one or two each morning with a slice of whole wheat toast with margarine, a banana and a cup of milk. My baked eggs recipe is quite simple. I went to work on five of the seven days of my challenge. I knew I would dwell on food a bit during this week so I wanted to choose lunches that would be very filling. Carrots and celery were the most affordable vegetables at my store, so I needed to base a lot of meals around them. At the beginning of the week I made a vegetable salad with garbanzo beans aka chickpeas that I ate for lunch with two or three clementines.
The SNAP challenge is intended to call attention to food insecurity by asking participants to spend one week living on a food stamp budget. Couples or roommates were permitted to pool their individual budgets together for the home. Rules of the challenge are that oil, vinegar, and spices are permitted, but calorific sweeteners like sugar are not. This means that my purchases were nearly all organic—another discretionary choice that I could have worked around in interest of stretching the budget further. I was lucky to find some of my produce, including yellow potatoes, broccoli, and kale, on sale. Steel cut oats with raisins and banana for Steven and for me Savory rolled oats with spinach and nutritional yeast for me, later in the week Toast for either of us if we get bored of oats. Leftovers, leftovers, leftovers Brown rice and broccoli stem salad Lentil, carrot, and celery salad Spicy carrot ginger soup. The SNAP challenge is a highly imperfect approximation of what it feels like to live in true circumstances of poverty or insecurity. After all, most students in my class myself included are doing this challenge while continuing to enjoy many other lifestyle privileges. This contrast feels really jarring at times. But in many small ways, the challenge has already given me a lot to think about when it comes to my own privilege, and I suspect that it will make me a much more conscientious consumer moving forward.
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I also wanted an excuse to use this awesome, single-serve egg pan. I also feel constantly bloated, due to the carb-overload and water guzzling. Day 0 — Grains galore with a dabble of veggies. My strategy for the week was to eat my ingredients individually, rather than combining foods and risking overconsumption early on, a strategy I am considering amending. Credit Cards Credit card reviews. Ironically, today was one of my least active days, too no run, no tennis, and no walk to work, but food depletion seemed to catch up to me this Sunday evening. Christine, I have been trying to follow people when they do these challenges. This contrast feels really jarring at times. I think this is great, both from food security experience and also to show people that it is possible, if you get creative.