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Nashville, TN, United States
Hello all and welcome to my first blog ever! My name is Kristy and I am a student at The University of Tennessee in the MSSW program. This blog will detail my experience on "The Food Stamp Challenge". Which means for one week, I will live as if I were on food stamps only $21 for a weeks worth of food.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Day 3 concludes

I am running low on bread, growing tired of Ramen noodles...so I scrambled some eggs for dinner.  I went ahead and fried an egg for my breakfast sandwich Thursday morning.  One positive I can say is this has really eliminated the guesswork out of deciding what I'm eating for breakfast, lunch or dinner.  But that is also a negative in that my options are really limited.  That's kind of depressing, not having options and the same old thing is getting mundane.

Day 3

Today has been a hectic day at work.  I had coffee first thing and usually eat a little something for breakfast around 10 but it wasa so crazy that I didn't get to come up for air until almost noon.  I decided to go ahead and eat lunch, tuna salad sandwich and a pudding cup.  I computed the cost of my salty treat looking at how many servings per container and what I consumed.  I totaled 24 cents for the hummus and 22 cents for the chips, so that adds 46 cents to my total.  I wish I could have taken my generic cheese nips back for a refund but some how I'm thinking that wasn't an option.  I could put that $1.35 towards a more flavorful salty snack.  Day three isn't too bad.  I am down to half a loaf of bread and I'm hoping I don't run out before Sunday.