On a Dollar a Day is a fascinating and thought-provoking book by Christopher Greenslate and Kerri Leonard.
Greenslate and Leonard are a couple and both high school teachers and both vegans. Even without the expense of animal products, they got sick of their soaring grocery bills and decided to enter into an experiment: could they live on a dollar a day, per person, as the average person on the planet does?
They ran a blog before the book and documented their experience as they spent a month living on a dollar a day per person. After this experiment, they decided to see what would happen if they lived on the $4.13 food stamp family allotment – following the guidelines of what to buy, though they were not actually on food stamps.
Their experience and conclusions will make you examine what you buy to and what you eat and why you do so. In the third section of the book, they use what they have learned to modify their original eating habits in such a way that they end up spending less money and eating healthfully.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who eats food and especially to those who don’t think about what they are eating and/or have the money not to think about it.
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