Mayor Cory Booker: My Organic Food Stamp Challenge
By: Irma Jennings | Posted in: Blog, Featured | Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 - 11:56am
When I heard about Newark Mayor Cory Booker’s (now Senator) one week Food Stamp Challenge on the Sunday Morning Show, I was intrigued. As a bone health and nutrition coach, I wondered whether you could not just survive but eat well on food stamps.
When I say eat well, I mean eating fresh, unprocessed, organic, non-GMO food. Now that’s a challenge!
With my friend Vicki, we set a goal to eat well on a budget of $4.40 per person, per day — the same “per day” budget Mayor Booker used.
Food budget:
Daily: $4.40 per day, per person
Weekly: $30.80 per person, $61.60 combined/per week.
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