Food Bank Diet Great -- for Losing Weight
By Craig Pearson, The Windsor Star
November 5, 2010
I'm hungry, grumpy and can't wait to have steak.
At the tail end of a four-day experiment in eating only food-bank food, I'm tuna-ed out. It's part of the provincewide, poverty-awareness Do The Math Challenge.
On Monday at the Downtown Mission, 22 of us joined the exercise in self-denial -- sponsored by Pathway to Potential, Windsor-Essex County's poverty-reduction strategy. It's part of the Ontario campaign Put Food In the Budget, lobbying the government to add a $100-per-month healthy food supplement for Ontario Works recipients.
Whether there's political will to increase social assistance by $100 a month is one thing. But eating nutritious, fresh groceries on top of canned goods makes sense. Trust me.
I learned a few things on this tinned-food diet, including that I don't like beans as much as I thought.
Plus, I like choice.
