This is not getting any easier! I had to work a mid-shift today (10:30-7…blah), ate breakfast before I went in, had a meeting to prepare for and then the actual meeting itself, so didn’t really eat lunch. Had dinner at 5. So it was kind of an odd eating day for me. I haven’t figured up my total cost of food for the day yet, but I can’t imagine that I went over…we’ll see…
Breakfast:
2 slices toast .10, 1 T peanut butter .06, 6-oz oj .14, milk .15 (sound familiar? this is actually what I eat just about every morning)
Total for breakfast was 45 cents
Snack:
crackers .14, hot tea .04
Total for snack was 18 cents
Dinner:
1 chicken tender .30, 1 slice bread .05, radishes free (from my garden), celery .08, hot tea .04, frozen fruit .42
Dinner’s total was .89
So that makes the total for the day $1.52
There are a lot of folks participating in this challenge. I’ve been reading some of their blogs this week. I think we’re all getting a glimpse into the lives of people who live in extreme poverty. Enough of a glimpse to feel a lot of compassion, I’m sure. But I can’t help but think that there’s an end in sight for us whereas, for many of these people, there isn’t. I feel for people who live their lives without a lot of hope, without the belief that it can ever be different for them. I hope everyone will donate to their local food banks, donate to worldwide poverty relief organizations, help the neighbor or family member who has fallen on tough times…but what I would really like to see is our politicians join forces to make this better. Do I have a lot of hope that this will happen? Not unless enough of us demand it.
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