Stamped out

I missed the start of the Food Stamp Challenge, a week in which everyone's encouraged to try living on a food-stamp allotment's worth of groceries. That comes to about a dollar a meal per person, and that dollar is buying less food than it did just a few months ago.

If you're not doing the challenge, you can read stories from participants here. And you can read about the real deal, someone for whom every week is Food Stamp Challenge week. Kactus at Superbabymama, one of my favorite writers on the net, is blogging her food stamp chronicles for the entire month of May. If you've ever wondered about the glamorous spending habits of the apocryphal "welfare queen," Kactus will set you straight: week one (with follow-ups and the long-awaited meat deal), week two and week three are already up. Buen provecho.