The farm bill, which includes the Food Stamp Program, is up for reauthorization. This past summer, some members of Congress and others took the Food Stamp Challenge, spending only $21 on food for ...

Oregon food critic Ken Hoyt delivers an update on his state's Food Stamp Challenge. Participants in the challenge limit their individual food spending to just $3 a day to get a greater ...

A Food Stamp Challenge That We All Can Help With. August 2, 2008. Marylanders are struggling to feed themselves.

We are participating in the food challenge to remind ourselves of this fact — that behind each $1.40 meal there is a human face, a human body yearning for sustenance.

Living on a budget of $31.50, Rabbi Steve Gutow joined at least 600 imams, pastors, members of Congress and community activists across the country in the Food Stamp Challenge.

Gwyneth Paltrow has apparently failed at the food stamp challenge. She quit after four days, she reports on her website, GOOP. But then, most everyone who takes the challenge does it wrong.

Mario Batali, his wife and their two teenage sons are eating for a week on the equivalent of a food stamp budget in protest of potential cuts pending in Congress to the benefit program used by ...

I considered accepting the 2007 Food Stamp Challenge. I’ve had plenty of experience being broke, including four years in college when I lived on oatmeal, canned tuna and potatoes – lots of ...

I originally went on food stamps because I was one of those people who existed in an odd liminal zone of poverty. While I had a small income from my graduate school assistantship, it wasn’t ...

Where to shop, that was the big question. A week of eating only what I can buy for $29 — the average amount allotted to a single person living on food stamps in America — means one port… ...

Food Stamp challenge: One week, four people and a tight budget By JILL SILVA. Updated May 16, 2014 5:03 PM. This story originally appeared in the May 28, 2007 edition of The Kansas City Star.

Starting Saturday, U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei, D-Syracuse, began a food stamp challenge to eat on a budget of $4.50 per day. Maffei wrote this on his Facebook page: Readers left their thoughts on SNAP ...