Karen and I are off our FRAC diet for now, the one that involves spending about the same amount on food that Food Stamps recipients are allowed. This amount is slightly more than $4 a day. We stayed on this diet for 3 days and will take it up again from Wednesday through Friday, another 3 day period.
Why for only 3 days at a time? Because we're not sure we have the fortitude to do it for longer. It's tough living on $4 a day, which by our count, especially if we try to stay healthy, allows us to eat only about 1300 calories daily.
The other rather strange and somewhat ironic reason has to do with the surprising frequency with which we enjoy access to free food. Here we are, well off, even affluent people, who are regularly offered free pizza, free hors d'oeurves, free wine, and a variety of other such treats, including, by the way, an almost constant barrage of quite delicious cookies. We can't in good conscience say we are staying on the FRAC diet while consuming these unpaid for delicacies. And it happens so often that it is not really possibly to turn down this largesse for long. Three days rarely pass without some opportunity to grab another gratis treat. Funny, huh? We can afford to be well fed in any case, but the free food just keeps on coming. In the meantime, I am guessing that poor people rarely, if ever, get to partake of complimentary food. Why is this anyway?
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