A common appearance of living in poverty is that they have few real choices to make. Without a doubt, people who only eat $5.00 a day, work as hard as they can, which can be particularly hard, because during this week I felt underfed and weak and received barely enough to cover my basic needs, which I tried to fulfill in the least expensive way. It seems that poverty lines were initially set to capture the definition of poverty by the budget needed to buy a certain amount of calories, plus some other necessary purchases, such as housing. A “poor” person can essentially be defined as someone without enough to eat. Yet it is a more difficult task of defining homelessness, as stated in our book “Introduction to Human Services,” There is currently …show more content…
Foremost, my opinion of eating out is just that “out of the question”, even the thought of buying a McDonald's dollar menu is just too costly, and not to mention not satisfying enough. So I eat in, having no other choice! But what do I eat, and how well. First, I am very fortunate to own my own bread machine, I doubt that most individuals collecting food stamps or who are homeless have one! I am able to get the cost of a loaf of bread down to $0.70. I was able to pick up on sale at .99 cents store which I rarely shop at, cans of Tuna for $0.88, so tuna sandwiches will be a basis of my $5.00 a day diet, and the point here being when one lives on $5.00 a day for food, one has very little choice of what one eats, one needs to also cut coupons and buy what is on sale and when you get a great bargain like cans of tuna for $0.88 one tries to stock up, but that means one will be eating a lot of tuna and have very little selection in one's