Really?
And how can she relate to someone living on a fixed income?
Its not as easy as it sounds.
FReeper Grania and I had a $32/week food contest to show that it can be done. We both did very well indeed, balanced diets with very different kinds of food preferences.
No, she will never know what its like to be poor.
She has the comfort to know that her “experiment” will soon be over.
What she is doing is like saying is that she is going to take time away from her loved one so that she will know what its like that loved one to die.
I went shopping with a single mother for a Mother’s Day picnic a few years ago. She was using a SNAP card to make the purchases at Wal*Mart and her shopping cart contents had little (no) regard for value, nutritional, quality or how long the food would last. It was all impulse buying like she was on a shopping spree and off her A.D.D. meds.
$29 bucks a week wouldn’t be THAt hard to live on per week. Of course soup can get boring, but I think OOg said the same thing to Mrs. OOg