Eating on a Food Stamps Budget

An old project on eating on an incredibly low budget becomes suddenly relevant again

Back in 2015-2016, I fell on pretty hard times. I spent a 16-month period with a grand total of only 8 months of paid work. I was looking for work constantly and trying to scrape by with the barest expenses I could manage.

As I came into December 2015, I realized that no one was going to hire me for anything in the final month of the year, so I decided t…