This link will lead you to a short article and a YouTube video describing an experiment on low-cost eating. I cannot view YouTube videos on my computer, so I am wondering if someone could gives us a rundown of what is said.
If this can be done (at $1.00 per meal or less), then we may want to have a challenge here on the blog. Let me know your views on this. I could post the challenge on my other blogs, too.
Maybe everyone would agree to let me combine all of their ideas, tips and recipes into an e-book that we can each have a free copy of. Then we could sell it here for a $1 or $2.
Let me know if this is something that you would be interested in, and I will get it all set up.
Shannon
The video is stating that 1 in 10 americans receive food stamps. More than ever before. In the short 2.5 min clip a food nutritionist (who is into vegetables) is challenged to live on 1 dollar a meal which is what food stamps allocated apparently.
What you can live on for a short period and what you can live on and promote long term health are two different things. The proof for that lies in the poor nutrition (and starvation levels of the third world.
I could live on £1 a day but to be healthy and include leafy green veg, fruit, carrots, tomatoes etc every day would cost more like £2.
The video also briefly stated that obesity and diabetes are rocketing in america and both are linked to low income food purchasing patterns.
Thank you, Joe. I appreciate your rundown of the video. I do agree that the eating habits of low-income families can be a cause of obesity. I am wondering, though, how much we really need to spend in order to eat healthy meals. Can that be done at such a low price? I do not know. I think that we would have to combine gardening and food preservation methods to make this work.
I for one dollar ate three days. I worked as a builder in Moscow. Porridge and macaronis! But these were unforgettable days!
Wow. It would cost more than that around here.
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I agree with your doubts. I dont think it can be done. Not if you want long term health at least. I also agree that if any sort of low dollar/pound figure per meal could work it would need support from your own gardening efforts.
I am afraid food is one of those clear indicators that we (humans) are not at all sussed. You would think filling a belly would be a simple affair. The human group mentality, and politics has made food anything but simple.
Lets get gardening!
I usually garden, but it has rained every day here in Maine. Even those who gardened before the expected last frost are seeing their gardens die. I have decided, though, to at least grow my herbs on the windowsill.
Though gardening is a great thing, and can make a huge difference in one’s food budget, it is not always a real option. Pots and windowsills work if you can. But some people are in situations were they truly can’t even do that. I personally am on bed rest for a high risk pregnancy. My boys are too young and have huge health issues themselves. My husband works and goes to school full time, both. I’m not the only one. I see plenty of people, when dropping my older boy off at his therapies, that are in more “handicapped” situations than us. You can tell these people aren’t the ones eating out every night at the local Red Robin, they are poor, and will probably always be. Gardening is great, when you can do it. It can’t be the only option.
Oh, I agree with you completely. I didn’t even get to garden this year. It has rained every day for a month now, and there was a lot of rain before that.
this is great that so many of us garden these days. I grew up in the country and we did canning for winter meals and had fresh veggies the later part of summer.
I know a family that grows and raises much of their food. The goats got into the garden this year, the garden seems to be going well anyhow.
They are lucky! Most gardens around here are failing due to the rain. We received too much here in Maine! We have time to replant though.