One Dollar Diet Project

December 15th, 2008

Another interesting blog:

Two Social Justice teachers have decided to start eating on one dollar a day.

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And here’s an article about them:

ENCINITAS — “Most of the world eats on less than a dollar a day,” Christopher Greenslate said, spearing single grains of Spanish rice on his fork. “And we thought, why couldn’t we do the same?”

Next to him, Kerri Leonard nodded. “It didn’t start as a big statement — it began as a way to save money,” she said. After a particularly expensive month this summer, they agreed that the magnitude of their food expenditures was ridiculous. Eventually the question arrived: Why not eat on $1 a day? So they did. Starting Sept. 1 and ending Sept. 30, they limited themselves to a $1 a day allowance for food.

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