OK all you REAL foodies, this challenge is for you. It’s been 6 months since the REAL Food Challenge and this is the perfect way to get back on track if you haven’t been keeping up with REAL food.
Slow Food USA initiated the $5 Challenge. The goal is to cook healthy meal for less than what you would spend for a meal at a fast food restaurant. They emphasize that the food should fit the Slow Food ideal “food that is good for those who eat it, good for farmers and workers, and good for the planet.”
THE CHALLENGE: This September 17, you’re invited to take back the ‘value meal’ by getting together with family, friends and neighbors for a slow food meal that costs no more than $5 per person. Cook a meal with family and friends, have a potluck, or find a local event.
WHY: Because slow food shouldn’t have to cost more than fast food. If you know how to cook, then teach others. If you want to learn, this is your chance. Together, we’re sending a message that too many people live in communities where it’s harder to buy fruit than Froot Loops. Everybody should be able to eat fresh, healthy food every day.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED: Sign up for the challenge! You can cook a meal with friends and family, find a local event, or host your own event.
You can join in here at Not Dabbling, or head on over to Chiot’s Run and join in over there. I’m giving away a collection of seeds from Botanical Interests to one lucky reader.
How are you doing continuing the REAL food Challenge?
Really? This is too easy! I think I can feed the whole family for $5.
Right there with you – $5/person seems luxurious!
$5 per person? I would be broke in a week if I spent that kind of money on a meal. My monthly food budget is $50.
I agree with the comments above, it’s not much of a challenge. I’ve got a family of 5 and I can’t imagine NOT being able to feed us a really great meal for $25! Maybe I’ll tweak it to the $5 per family challenge.
I know, but there are lots of folks out there that think eating good healthy food is so much more expensive than eating fast food (I mean we all watched Food Inc. right and they even extolled that meme in that movie).
I’m always telling Mr Chiots when we’re eating, “WOW, our meal cost 50 cents tonight, it’s too bad that most folks can’t afford good healthy food.”
Agreed! $5/person is a luxury I can’t afford. I spend, on a bad week, $5/meal for the 4 of us.
Lunch today for my granddaughter and me came from my canning pantry. A pint of potatoes, mashed. A pint of carrots. And a pint of hamburger in gravy (thin sauce thickened to gravy).
Total cost (including the potatoes and carrots I grew mysellf, and a half pound of 80 cents a pound clearance groung beef from Winco) was right at 50 cents.
Now THAT’s a challenge.