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I'm already on a 1 meal a day over the course of the entire day diet due to poverty. Like not even a big meal. Today my entire days supply of food is going to be a sandwich. I don't think I need to skip my only meal for the day.
I actually am very lucky to do a lot of foraging that when it's a good year, supplement what little foods I can buy so it's not all bad, but I am not eating well. I don't think many people in America are right now.
:'-( hard for me to understand that most don't see food as a right. Most especially in Canada / USA / Europe will never understand true hunger and poverty. I see this as good and bad. Would be best if no one ever had to know.
I was homeless for just shy of five years a little over a decade ago before I got help and eventually got where I am now. It's not much, it's not a good situation, but it's better than where I was and there's hope of it improving. I'm doing a lot better than the vast majority of the people I knew back then.
I wouldn't wish it on anyone.