One Dollar Diet Project

I don’t watch a lot of TV, but it seems that TV sometimes watches those of us on the net. That is exactly what has happened with the One Dollar Diet Project. This little blog started out as an experiment by two social justice teachers, Christopher and Kerri, who wanted to see if it was possible. I know its possible as I seriously doubt we ate on much than a dollar a day when I was a kid.

I do find the  eating on a dollar a day site very interesting and while I have not read all the posts I definitely will. Perhaps I can start my own dollar a day diet. I’ll give you a hint on how to do this, eat dried beans and peas. You can cook a lot of beans for a dollar. How do I know, that was what we ate a lot of when I was a kid. We were very poor and not to mention the fact that my parent pretty much spent any money they had on drugs and not on food for us kids. That seems like a really long time ago and reflecting on it makes me realize just how far I have come in my life. While I’m not rich by any means I can definitely afford to spend more  than a dollar a day for groceries. Well enough about me, lets look at a  few of the dollar a day posts.

The one that started the dollar day diet project. I really think this is cool and a real lesson in the social issues facing the world. So how do you eat on a dollar a day, check out the DollarDayDiet Recipes page for the answer. Many people in the US are not aware of how little some other people in the world spend to survive. We take a lot of granted and do not really know how good we have it. Eating of one dollar a day could  not only help people in this time of uncertain economics. I have spent an entire months worth of food for Christpher and Kerri on a single lunch this week. Of course the lunch was very good. Perhaps I should follow in their footsteps and eat for a dollar a day for a month. I would not care to get all the media attention the One Dollar a Day project has gotten, but it may be good to get back to my roots so to speak. Hey I could eat roots

Enough joking congrats to the One Dollar a Day diet project. Your sacrifice seems to be raising awareness to this issue all over the world.

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