– Check the SNAP challenge file and answer the questions to write a paragraph, I post some of my experience, and I attached the recipes but you can edit or add some information as needed – Make sure the paper is plagiarized free- Use simple language
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The SNAP Challenge
Take the one-week SNAP/Food Stamp Challenge. The SNAP Challenge encourages participants to get a
sense of what life is like for millions of low-income Americans facing hunger. By accepting the SNAP
Challenge, you’ll commit to eating all of your meals from a limited food budget comparable to that of a
SNAP participant – $1.50 per meal.
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You will do the challenge for one week. Your budget is $4.50 per day per person (if other people
in your household are also participating) for all your food and beverages. You can use coupons
while taking the Challenge but should not shop at membership clubs (here’s a cool blog of
someone who followed the challenge for a month:
https://www.budgetbytes.com/category/updates/snap-challenge/)
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Using your Challenge budget, decide on groceries to purchase and how much to put aside for
food incidentals. Be aware of ALL food purchased and eaten during the Challenge week/day.
During the Challenge, do not eat food that you purchased prior to starting the challenge.
Avoid accepting free food from friends, family, or while at work.
Save all receipts on food spending and take note of your experiences throughout the week, in
particular the choices you made between the variety and quality of food you ate.
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In a paper, summarize in paragraph form (do not use bullet points) your experience on the SNAP
challenge including:
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How did your shopping cart look compared to a normal week? What choices did you have to
make about the types of food you could afford, where you shopped, or the nutritional quality and
variety of food?
What have you cut out of your routine to stay on budget (e.g. COFFEE)?
Did others participate with you? If not, how would the experience be different if others in hour
household were also eating off a limited food budget for the week?
How has eating on a limited budget impacted your mood? Your concentration? How has that
impacted your interaction with family and coworkers?
Are you worried about your groceries running out before the end of the Challenge? Do you feel
you are you eating a healthy, balanced diet? What nutrition decisions did you have to make?
You must also reflect on the following in your paper:
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How did you make your money stretch in a healthy way?
Are these resources that low-income individuals would have easy access to and be able to readily
use to make their food dollar stretch?
After living on a limited food budget this week, how has your perspective changed about the
decisions families facing hunger must make?
o What are your thoughts the SNAP benefit amount?
o What are the implications SNAP has for individuals in the United States?
o In November 2013, the government will cut SNAP benefits for all recipients. These cuts
will be $36 for a family of four – dropping the average benefit per person per meal to
under $1.40. How would this week have been different for you if you had even less
money to spend on food?
it must be checked through SafeAssign and attach all grocery receipts.
$31.50
$26.52
= $4.98 put aside for food incidentals.
Trader joe’s grocery store
5 banana
7 oz hummus
½ gallon fat free milk
loaf of bread
dozen eggs
1 sweet potato
3 potatoes
2 big onion
4 medium tomato’s
small bag of carrots cut
5 oz spicy spinach mix salad
383 g of cereal
corn
whole wheat pasta
Smart and final
2 small oranges
2 small apples
brown rice
Walmart
1 tuna
360 g frozen beans
1 small tomato paste
Monday:
breakfast
milk with cereal
banana
snack
1 spoon of hummus+ piece of bread
lunch
tuna mixed with tomato and onion
2 slice of bread
snack
apple
2 eggs
dinner
sweat potato
Tuesday:
breakfast
2 egg boiled with milk
snack
1 tablespoon hummus with piece of bread
lunch
brown rice
beans made with tomatoes and onion
snack
carrots
cereal
dinner
salad spinach
Wed:
Breakfast
2 egg with bread and orange juice
lunch
mixed salad
snack
1 tablespoon hummus with piece of bread
1 small apple
dinner
brown pasta with tomato past
Thursday:
Breakfast
Banana with cup of milk
lunch
leftover brown pasta
snack
vegetable soup (1 potato, couple of carrot, some beans)
dinner
left over of vegetable soup
Friday:
Breakfast
2 Egg with tomato and onion
Bread
milk
lunch
no lunch
snack
cereal with banana
smashed potato
dinner
hummus
bread
Saturday:
Breakfast
cereal
lunch
boiled corn
snack
orange
banana
dinner
no dinner
Sunday:
Breakfast
Half cup of milk
Snack:
No snack
lunch
brown rice with carrot and egg
dinner
mixed spinach salad
smash potato
Some of my experience:
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it was hard to choose food that less than two dollars
I research for the cheapest grocery store
My daughter was surprise with the amount of vegetables and fruit I picked
I couldn’t buy chicken or meat they were too expensive for my budget
I never looked at the price for the bread until I had this budget, I picked the cheapest
bread and it was harder than what I use to eat
It was the first time that I chopped for myself, we usually buy for the 3 of us. But
compare to what I usually eat it is a lot different, my diet usually has variety of fruit,
poultry, and meat and I couldn’t buy them because my budget doesn’t allow me to do so
I shopped at Trader Joe’s which it was my first time there
I was looking for the cheapest when I was picking my food items, instead of the
better quality or the highest nutrition continent.
I felt hungry and daze couple times in school, even thou I backed my food from
home, but it wasn’t enough
The food I cut out from my diet: Fruit, Chicken, meat, coffee, avocado, cream of cheese,
honey, and many other snacks
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