Food Stamped Summary

Food Stamped is a documentary film that informs its audience about food stamps. It follows a couple who are attempting to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet on a food stamp budget. Nutrition teacher, Shira Potash teaches nutrition cooking classes to elementary students in low-income neighborhoods. In order to put themselves in others shoes, Shira and her husband go on board on the food stamp challenge where they eat on about one dollar per meal. While they are doing the challenge, they seek a food justice activists, nutrition experts, and politicians. They do this to take a deep look at the struggles of low-income Americans.
The couple had only fifty dollars to spend on groceries that would allow them to eat three times a day for one week. It was stressful just seeing them trying to decide what food to take since they tried to buy only healthy food. The couple spent about forty eight dollars on all of their groceries that was supposed to last for a week. On the first day of the challenge, the couple decided to eat eggs mixed with spinach and some toast. Although it did not look appetizing, it was a healthy …show more content…
I know a couple of families who are on foods stamps and believe me, they are getting far more then what is said here. One adult with one child gets about four-hundred dollars a month. I think that is more than enough. I think that this comes down to people not being educated or well informed. Also, food stamps are meant to be used as temporary relief and there are far too many people who take this for granted or abuse this help. Growing your own garden for fresh vegetables would help you save money. Making a small garden does not take too much work to do. Sometimes taking a walk in the park can help someone who is on the way of being obese. America’s percentage of obese people has increased over the years and walking could help the decrease that