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By: United Way of King County Blog » Blog Archive » Perspectives from Day 1 of the Hunger Challenge

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:18:48 +0000

[...] week, over 250 community members are participating in the United Way of King County Hunger Challenge. We have been lucky enough to hear from some participants about how their first day went and some [...]

By: United Way of King County Blog » Blog Archive » Hunger Action Week Day 1 Round-up!

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:50:39 +0000

[...] awesome bloggers, we got tons of different commenters sharing their thoughts and meals (read them here and here). Of note, Seattle Works CEO Alison Carl White commented about her first day taking the [...]

By: DianasaurDishes

DianasaurDishes — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:09:31 +0000

I kicked off the hunger challenge yesterday with my absolute favorite soup, Taco Soup in the crockpot. It’s only 70 cents a serving and will feed us for a few meals this week.

http://dianasaurdishes.com/01/taco-soup-for-the-crockpot-and-food-stamps/

By: janice tufte

janice tufte — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:31:22 +0000

I actually live on approximately $3 a day every day of the year. I used to live on $2 until inflation hit the grocery stores last year. I run a coupon drive, utilize coupons, and give the rest to low income housing groups. I buy weekly only on big sales and often with coupons. This week I made up a large batch of fried rice with vegetables, almonds and eggs which at most costs $.35 cents a serving. Today I just made up curry lentil soup which will cost about $.20 a bowl for four servings. I purchased 5 grapefruit for $1 and dozen eggs for $1 which will be mainstay breakfast during the week. (+discounted sourdough bread for toast $1.99)I also purchased 4 large boxes cheerios for $1.25 each which will last over a month. Head lettuce, organic carrots, olives, ranch dressing and topper starbucks pint of java ice cream will round out the week. ( starbucks java icecream $2.50 plus $1 off coupon $1.50)

By: Alison Carl White

Alison Carl White — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:11:14 +0000

Yesterday I headed to Fred Meyer to do my weekly shopping for the hunger challenge. I like to think of myself as a pretty aware consumer. I didn’t think $35 for the week would be that difficult. So, I added an additional challenge. My workout group is doing a body cleanse for the last 10 days of the month. My challenge is to eat on $35 for the next 5 days while sticking to the healthy clean eating plan.
For breakfast I had 2 eggs (organic eggs were on sale for $2.00 for a dozen), a glass of juice (odwalla was on sale for 8.99–I think this doesn’t count as going over, right, I’ll drink it all week), a cup of coffee with creamer. (This is where it’s starting to get interesting–I have a keurig, keurig cups are $7.99 for 12 cups; out of my budget so I bought Folgers and made old-fashioned coffee) plus creamer (2.99, but I had a coupon for $1.50 off). The coffee tasted pretty good (don’t tell our friends at Sbux) but it took a lot longer to prep than my Keurig.
I had a smoothie for lunch. Banana (1.99 for 6), milk (oops didn’t factor this in as we have milk delivered since my 2 and 3.5 year old drink 8 1/2 gallons a week–hmmm, that’s $24 a week AND that’s important for their brain and bone development–that’s a hard choice for a mom to make, I can see how the dollar menu at McDonald’s looks appealing). Plus a little flax seed oil (not in my budget) and agave (not included in my budget).
Normally, I’d have a latte this afternoon, but clearly I’m over my budget and it’s only 3pm.
For dinner, I’m roasting a chicken (normally I’d buy organic so there is no hormones injected–but it was $10 more than the regular chicken 3.41), so we’re having regular chicken, spinach with lemon juice (.89), olive oil (4.99 on sale–not the fancy kind) and cranberries (4.99) and walnuts (2.99)–normally I’d have pine nuts from Costco, but that’s 10.99.
So, Day 1 I’ve been unsuccessful at feeding myself on $7. I think I’ll do a bit better tomorrow as I’ll eat mostly leftovers. This is harder than I thought. My consciousness is way up and my empathy for the choices many moms have to make every day is even higher. I’m making a gift now to UWKC Hunger Challenge now.

By: alice

alice — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:49:26 +0000

Excited to be participating in the Hunger Challenge Again this year. I just posted my first entry on how I plan on doing the challenge differently this time around.

http://savorysweetlife.com/2010/01/united-way-king-county-hunger-action-week/

Looking forward in following everyone again.

By: United Way of King County

United Way of King County — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:15:32 +0000

Hey Olu,

That’s awesome! We think things like this really help bring attention to important causes :D

By: olu

olu — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:05:18 +0000

hunger challenges are pretty neat. some local people did that in the bay area as well except it was $4 a day! http://www.uwba.org/news/2009/10/living-on-4-a-day/