Food Stamp Challenge!!

It's official!!

After telling the other palate in this apartment how close we are to living within a food stamp budget ($25 per person a week) here in California given our normal eating patterns, he said, "Okay, let's do it!"

So let me make some ground rules.

Just like with food stamps, our budget will not be permitted to include alcohol.  Additionally, due to some considerable debate whether food stamps should or should not include the beverages, our budget will not include things like Diet Coke or Dr. Pepper or even coffee, as essential as the latter might be to a functioning blogger.

Don't worry, we like functioning bloggers here, so we'll supplement the food stamps with enough $$ to maintain healthy levels of caffienation.

Already I've been hearing comments along the lines of, "they're giving out too much in food stamps!"  This is not a political blog, but hey, I hear Jack In The Box is now accepting EBT!  If you want to live on a dollar or less per person per meal from an establishment that takes food stamps, they have one of the best and most varied dollar menus around.  I'm only saying that because I used to eat 3 meals a day there, but I gained nearly 30 pounds doing so....  I'm ready to demonstrate that a person can eat well and healthy on a food stamp budget without resorting to fast food $ menus.

Food stamp challenge, here we come....