Well, classmates, Happy Sunday night. I’m glad it is the last day. Today I ate cereal for breakfast, grilled cheese for lunch, and a mix of things for dinner: two scrambled eggs, some leftover pasta and some roasted cabbage. Not bad for the last day.
I added up my final costs after dinner and came in at $19.58 for the week. I would love to go make a banana milkshake with my remaining $1.42, but it’s getting late (for me), and I think I will save it for tomorrow.
In general, I feel like I was able to get enough to eat this week. There were times I felt a little hungry, but the difficulty for me was more in the planning and constantly having to think about what I was eating, how much it was costing, and the general scarcity mentality that I have had to adopt this week. It was exhausting in some ways. I can imagine it would only be more exhausting if kids were involved and can also imagine that over time, the stress of it all would really start to wear.
All in all, the Food Stamp Challenge has been an eye-opening experience and one that I hope to participate in again.
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