Year three. I would think I have learned a few things about taking a personal hunger challenge by now.  Mostly the challenging part. This takes a lot of work, just having to THINK about food, and not the luxurious inconvenience of  "oh where should we go out to eat now", like we did last night after a SAM art event we attended.

I didn't really go very hungry in the past two challenges, mostly because I tried to plan my food a lot. This is a luxury, having the time to do so. A blogger on the Hunger Challenge in California wrote about the honestly of the time factor. Points in fact; I have a car, I don't spend hours on a bus looking to buy good fresh cheap food, I am not sick (I have great health care), I don't have hungry children to feed, I don't have to wait for hours trying to fill out forms to get assistance.

                  This is what I start with, $35.00 dollars for five days. Seems so meager.

What sticks out for you when you look at this photo? Not the amount or the twenty or the five or the George Washington's. What stood out for me is THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. This Hunger Challenge takes place here, in America.

So in honesty I need to start by saying I completed most of my shopping before the first day of the Hunger Challenge.  

I imagine I will be able to cook a few good dishes out of this group of lovely food.