Santa Barbara County CEO Erik Talkin is taking the month-long Food Security Challenge to find out if it’s possible to eat healthy on a food stamp budget. He’s restricted to spending $6.46 a day, the equivalent of what he would receive in food stamps, if he were in need of assistance and classified as a single, unemployed, non-dependent person.
Talkin is chronicling the challenge on his blog , which the Independent is republishing here. For more information, and to donate time and money to the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County and its 330 nonprofit partners, visit foodbanksbc.org.
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