If you didn’t know, The Mississauga Food Bank is on Twitter. (www.twitter.com/food_bank) It’s a great way for us to connect with others in our community, and with other food banks and charities across Canada and around the world!
Today I came across a tweet from Edmonton’s Food Bank with a link to a blog called The Working Poor Diet. It’s an initiative they’ve started inviting people to try out how it is to live on the $80 a month most working poor have to spend on food, while still trying to meet their nutritional needs. The goal of this initiative is to get people to make donations to Edmonton’s Food Bank in honour of the participants who are living on this diet for the month of February.
It was interesting to read more about the kind of choices the participant is making – does she buy meat, or does she fill up on carbohydrates like rice and potatoes?
I highly recommend following this blog for the month of February – it will give you some great insight to the type of challenges our clients at The Mississauga Food Bank face every day.
