Thank you for taking the Colorado Food Stamp Challenge which begins on National Hunger Awareness Day, Tuesday, June 5, and lasts 7 days to Monday, June 11. The challenge is to purchase, prepare and eat only the food that can be purchased on the average Colorado food stamp budget of about $25 per person per week ($3.57 per person per day).
The Food Stamp Program is the first line of defense against hunger in the United States and helps to put food on the tables of 25 million Americans including over a quarter of a million Coloradans. The goals of the Challenge are to raise awareness of the difficulties that many Coloradans face in feeding their families and to encourage Congress to support and strengthen the Food Stamp Program as it deliberates this summer on the farm bill.
Please use this blog to post your observations and experiences as you take the challenge. Just click on the "comments" link below and add your comments.
Again, thank you for your participation!
Colorado Anti-Hunger Network
Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute
