The Main Purpose of this Blog

The primary reason for starting this blog is to chronicle my experience with the Food Stamp Project. Just what is the Food Stamp Project?

This will describe it for you:

http://www.charteroakcenter.org/food_stamp_registration.pdf

As I live through the process I will use this blog as my journal; I thought it would be a better way to make this a growth-enhancing one not only for myself but perhaps for others as well. Who knows? Maybe somebody will want to join me in participation of the Food Stamp Project!

Under my roof I will be participating alone...my family will continue with the usual meals. I would like to see what it is like to feed an entire family under strict guidelines; maybe next year!

Today I will officially register (using the same form you saw when you clicked on the above link) and I will have a few days to prepare for the kick-off of the event. My first "to do" on my list is to get my shopping list ready for Week #1; when I started it I had four (4) items on it (milk, egss, bread and boneless chicken) and just those 4 items will use up half of my $21 allotment for the week. Yikes!

This will be more difficult than I had imagined! Once I have a shopping list set up I will post it, and feel free to give me suggestions. I think the meal I will miss the most is my #1 Extra Value Meal at McD's...but to use $6.00 for a Bic Mac, medium fries & medium soda equals two days of meals. When you put it in that light it makes you think very carefully about "wants" and true "needs". Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby...that equals another day's worth of meals. Ahhhhhh...I am pretty fortunate to be able to enjoy those kind of things...did I think that as I was eating them?