'Food Stamped': The Story of Supper on a Shoestring Budget | TakePart - Inspiration to Action: "When food stamp numbers hit an all-time high last year, America was rocked by the sudden uptick. In just two years, the number of food stamp recipients had leapt from 30 million to 40 million. This year, the tally reached 44 million.
What the statistics mean to nutritional experts and hunger advocates is the fight against hunger is far from over. What they mean to the millions of Americans who rely on food stamps is more of the same routine—trying to get by on less than two dollars per meal.
Intrigued by the challenge of the very limited food stamp budget, certified nutritional educator Shira Potash and her writer-filmmaker husband Yoav Potash challenged themselves to eat for a week within it, with the plan to document their learning experience in a five-to-ten-minute video.
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