Food bank's challenge: Dine on $25 a week
By Julie Wurth
Wednesday September 17, 2008
John Dixon
Jessica Paulsen, director of marketing and development at the Eastern Illinois Foodbank, holds a box of food representing $25 worth of groceries Tuesday at the Urbana facility. The food bank is sponsoring the $25 Challenge, asking people to live on $25 worth of groceries for a week, the amount of money Food Stamp recipients receive.
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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