On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:23:46 -0600, Christine Dabney
> wrote:

>Heya folks,
>
>I just found out, via various food blogs, that last week was Hunger
>Challenge week. Whereby folks would live on a food stamp budget, of
>$4/day. Which equals out to $28/week.
>
>Now, I read several food blogs in this arena....on this very
>challenge. It really astounded me..to say the least. Most had a
>difficult time with the challenge..and some had an extremely difficult
>time.
>
>I have to say that some qualified that they had never had to deal with
>anything like this in real life....
>
>One thing I found extraordinary, was that some shopped at Whole Foods
>for their food..and that was their main grocery store. I don't know
>exactly why, other than maybe they wanted to stay as organic as
>possible in their food supply.
>
>But it truly strikes me as being very unrealistic, in trying to
>stretch their food dollars as far as possible. Maybe they don;t know
>any better..maybe they just want to stay as close to organic as
>possible.
>
>For me..I would want to get as much value as I can for my dollar. That
>would mean shopping the sales at the stores, shopping at ethnic
>markets..and generally avoiding the high end markets..whatever they
>might be. I probably would avoid Whole Foods or similar stores...for
>the time being... even if I really wanted to be organic. That could
>go by the wayside for the time being, if my tummy was growling.
>
>And I would shop for the month..not the day.
>
>Am I totally off on this? What would you all do? If you wanted to
>stay organic, would you still shop at places like Whole Foods? Or
>would you compromise to save money? Would you compromise, to feed
>yourself and your family..or would you short them and yourself, cause
>you felt you needed to stay organic and pay top dollar?
>
>Just curious
>
>Mind you..this would be if you only had a set amount coming if for the
>whole month. What would you do???
>
>Christine, who is venting on this in a blog post.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
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