FOOD STAMPED (documentary trailer)

FOOD STAMPED follows a couple attempting to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet on a food stamp budget. Nutrition educator Shira Potash teaches nutrition-based cooking classes to elementary school students in low-income neighborhoods, most of whom are eligible for food stamps. In an attempt to walk a mile in their shoes, Shira and her documentary filmmaker husband embark on the food stamp challenge where they eat on roughly one dollar per meal.

This film is a documentary work-in-progress by Shira & Yoav Potash. See www.FoodStamped.com

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Food
• Stamps
• Nutrition
• Health
• wellness
• economy
• Yoav
• Potash
• Shira
• Michael
• Pollan

[Clarion13]

This looks like a wonderful idea, I have always thought about this issue and the poorest of us have so little choice in their foods. It's just not right. I was on Food Stamps once, I remember buying the Top Ramen! Yuck! Now I grow my own veg, eat meat sparingly, but I do buy as much Organic stuff as I can. I am grateful that I can.

Education is the key! And growing our own food again! :)

[jalaibilla]

i can say that you can eat healthy on a food stamp budget. i have done it. it takes a lot of will power but it is worth eat. i also have a child and he eats fruits and veggies all the time, i barely give him any sweets. all you have to do is cut out the snak and the junk food.

[yoavpotash]

SolarisOrion2: All of your points are addressed in the film (but not in the trailer).

[SolarisOrion2]

For starters; people who are on a strict budged such as FS don't buy their groceries in an Organic Yuppy Grocery Store in Berkley where a pound of coffee costs $10.00.

Also I believe that the original intent of food stamps was never to be the sole resource for food, but rather a means to SUPPLEMENT people with low incomes. Therefore going on the premise that $1.00 per meal is all there is, is misleading. What about Food Banks, Soup Kitchens,Churches, free meal programs for school children?

[maryhadalittlelamb25]

EXCELLENT...NICE WAY TO ADDRESS HUNGER HERE IN THE STATES..CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS!... :D

[DIYMarta]

I hope you two keep fighting for a change in food subsidy policies!!!

[DobermansRock]

Were they eating organic yuppy food. 10 bucks for a pound of coffee? Go back to your comune hippies.

[Juliana65]

I think the 99cent stores take food stamps. Not the Dollar Tree, but 99cent. I get my fruits and veggies there. Blueberries, Strawberries, lettuce, carrots, onions, garlic, mangos. Also, dried beans and sometimes eggs and yogurt. Some of the food costs more than at the grocery market, but overall, very good deals can be found there.

[david1965af]

Food stamps are corporate welfare for the supermarket/ agribusiness industry. They should be phased out. Lets face it, more Americans need to live within their means and have better family planning.

[angelinajoanie]

I knew that Ramen noodles would have to be involved somewhere!!

[mcdonaldanthony]

I know I can't survive on $1 a meal!

[FRSFreeStatePlus]

The "Great Recession" has been so bad that its turned well educated Middle Class people. Into people relying on Public Assistance to survive.