Live Below the Line

 Jeremy and I feel very blessed to live in the United States. We are saddened by the poor around us, but know that even the poorest person in the U.S. is much, much richer than many in the world. We want to change this.

For the next five days, as a family, we are participating in the Live Below the Line challenge of spending only $1.50 a day/person on food and drink. As we've planned our menus for the week, we initially thought it would be exciting to see how close we could stick to our regular habits and recipes and still meet our goal. We will continue with this plan, but if we were to do this again, we've agreed it would be more interesting and authentic if we just went and bought all the food for the week at once with our budget of $1.50 a day/person ($30 for 5 days for our family of 4). Doing so would limit us on what was possible to buy. But since we already live off of bulk grains and beans, and very little meat, we will be using a lot of food we already have and calculating out the portions we will eat. We'll see how hungry we are, but it will be hunger for a cause.

Please feel free to sign up and join us. You can start your own page here, or support the fight for ending hunger and poverty on my page here.


Our menu and cost calculations, although not finished, can be found here, if interested. Eat with us!