Food and Hunger

Food Cost

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  Breakfast

  Mother: Ashley O
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  Walking

  Mother: Whitney H

  "I have a job and I’m barely making it, so imagine how many people walking around hungry, with a smile, trying to fake it." 
  

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  High Gas Prices

  Mother: Tianna G

  "I don’t have a car, I don’t own a car, I don’t know how to drive, but diesel gas is $4.87. We need diesel gas. How are we gonna get our produce from the farms to get to the market? How are we gonna get our Pampers? How are we gonna get our water? So if diesel fuel keeps going up what are our trucks gonna do?"  

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  Groceries

  Mother: Tianna G

  This was somebody else's cart.  I was looking at how much their cart was loaded.  There is so much food out there!

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  Street Corner

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Nyima drinking juice

  Mother: Tamika H

  She’s a very picky eater and she eats when and what she wants to eat. I buy what she likes but when I make what she likes she doesn't want to eat it. 

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  Making it through the month

  Mother: Crystal S

  They give me $376 in Food Stamps. To try to make it through a month you have to put cash to it; there’s no way Food Stamps are gonna make it alone, it’s not gonna work.

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  A rare trip out to eat

  Mother: Angela S

  I took this picture because I don’t go out often. I don’t get fast food often. So I had done somebody’s hair and got some money and I said [to the kids] “What do ya’ll wanna do with the money?” They wanted KFC.

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  Lunch break

  Mother: Quiana  H

  "I don't get a lunch break, really.  If I do take a break, they take it out of my pay.  So we're entitled to a 15 minute break.  My co-workers and I pool our money together to buy chips.  I took this picture to show my lunch.  I know my nutrition is not good."
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  Egg carton

  Mother: Quiana  H
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  Milk Price

  Mother: Quiana  H
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  Cereal Price

  Mother: Quiana  H