In San Francisco, a city overflowing with great food, 150,000 people aren’t sure where their next meal is coming from. That’s 1 in 4 children and 1 in 5 adults.
The Hunger Challenge is about walking in someone else’s shoes for a week. It’s about living with the hard choices of families surviving on food stamps and understanding what it feels like, physically and emotionally.
As a participant, you agree to spend just $4 a day (per person) for your entire food and drink budget – the average amount that food stamp recipients have to spend. Check out the Challenge rules and sign up to participate today!
During the Hunger Challenge, we encourage you to share your experiences through your blog, Twitter, Facebook or YouTube. To keep up with the latest news about the Hunger Challenge and read about what other participants are doing, visit the Hunger Challenge Blog, at
www.HungerChallenge.com. You can also see who’s blogging and tweeting about the Hunger Challenge and read blog posts from past participants there.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT >> Can you do it? What will you end up eating? Will you be hungry? Can you eat healthy on a budget? How much time will it take to prepare your meals? Could you do it forever?
If you have a garden, please price-out any produce you source from your garden based on supermarket or farmers market prices in your area and include that cost in your $28 total.
(Most urban poor do not have access to land for gardening, nor do they have the time to cultivate a garden - many work two or more jobs.)
If you forage for food, please consider whether the urban poor (with limited transportation and time) would have access to those food items in their neighborhood.
Please share your experiences (if you can) and help create awareness about what it's like to eat on a tight budget.
Blog about what it's like: menu planning, shopping for food, your day-to-day eating and recipes you have found or created. What's difficult? What's easy? What do your family and friends think? Let us know your blog's url and we'll add it to our blogroll. A Hunger Challenge web badge is also available.
Send your thoughts, insights, videos and photos to
HungerChallenge@sffb.org and we'll post them on the Hunger Challenge blog. Contribute the amount of cash you saved by spending only $28 on food for the week. For every $1 donated, the San Francisco Food Bank can provide $6 worth of food to the hungry.
Register at
https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5420/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=23271
