Food bank's challenge: Dine on $25 a week

URBANA – Forget the chicken dinner circuit. State Sen. Mike Frerichs plans to be eating a lot of PB&J next week.

He's taking part in a challenge from the Eastern Illinois Foodbank to get by on $25 worth of food for the week – the same amount given to the average person receiving government food stamps.

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