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Raising awareness of hunger in our community
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the national food stamp program. During our annual SNAP Challenge, we challenge Minnesotans to eat on $30.25 -- the average weekly allowance for SNAP recipients -- for one week.
More than 520,000 Minnesotans used SNAP between May of 2010 and May of 2011, and that number is rising at an annual rate of 19 percent. With many Open Arms clients facing food insecurity, in addition to chronic and progressive diseases, we hope this annual challenge will help raise awareness and understanding of hunger.
Visit the SNAP Challenge blog to read about the experiences of our 2011 SNAP participants. Thanks to all who participated!
Stay tuned for information about the 2012 SNAP Challenge...
RESOURCES
PDF: Senator Franken & the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction Support SNAP Funding
PDF: Senator Amy Klobuchar Supports the SNAP Challenge
Meal Plans:
Our registered dietitian and dietetic interns have created several meal plans for use during the SNAP Challenge:
Meal Plan: General, Cub Foods
Meal Plan: Scratch, Cub Foods
Meal Plan: General, Walgreen (updated)
Meal Plan: Two People, Cub Foods
Meal Plan: Vegetarian + Fish, Cub Foods
SNAP Challenge Amounts:
A list of our SNAP Challenge budgets for families of different sizes and how we calculated them:
SNAP Amounts
Links:
Track your food intake
Learn about SNAP
Find out what food you can purchase using SNAP
Image:
Download the SNAP logo to use as your Facebook profile photo for the week:
Right-click on the image above and select "Save image as" to download.
