Congregation Shaare Emeth SNAP Challenge Community Blog: SNAP Challenge Events

Can You Imagine What Hunger Feels Like?

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From Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 2014, members, staff and clergy of Congregation Shaare Emeth will take the SNAP Challenge and try to live on the average food budget of a Missouri SNAP recipient – just $29.25 per week or less than $1.40 per meal. SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as Food Stamps). Why are we doing this? To raise awareness about the struggles faced by millions of food-insecure households, to experience first-hand how difficult it is to afford nutritious foods, and to renew our commitment to do what we can to put an end to hunger.

Please join us by attending one of our hunger events, following our blog as we document our experiences (subscribe by email in the box on the right, subscribe to the blog feed, or check back daily), joining as SNAP Challenge participant and blog author, or participating in an alternate way. Let's all learn a little more about what it's like to live solely on food stamps.

All events take place at Congregation Shaare Emeth, 11645 Ladue Road, Creve Coeur, MO 63141.

Food Insecurity: Social Action and Advocacy Shabbat

Friday, Jan. 24, 2014, 6 p.m.

Rabbi Jim Bennett will speak at Shabbat evening services about food insecurity in America.

Brown Bag Dinner & Screening of the Documentary A Place at the Table

Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, 6:30 p.m.

Bring your own dinner - we suggest trying out the $1.40 SNAP food budget - and join us in watching A Place at the Table. The documentary, from the people that brought us FOOD, INC, shares the next chapter on America's food crisis: 1 in 4 kids don't know where their next meal is coming from.

The film begins at 6:30 p.m. and is followed by a discussion.