This challenge simulates the daily diet of those whose of how families and individuals on supplemental nutrition programs (formally known as food stamps) live and eat. Through an honor system, participants only eat food purchased within the parameters of their five dollar diet. As the five days go on, Sam will email motivational texts and emails, as well as tips and tricks of how to allocate money and stay as full as possible.
*Participants can choose to spend five dollars a day on food for five days, or spend twenty-five dollars for all five days.