Mario Batali Is 'F****** Starving' On Food Stamp Diet
NEW YORK (PIX11)—
Mario Batali is not living well on $31 a week for food, not well at all."I'm f****** starving" the celebrity chef and television host told the Associated Press. Batali and his family are trimming their weekly food budget to protest possible Congressional cuts to the food stamp program that is used by 46 million Americans.
"Rice and beans is in my lunch every day," Batali said. "We got a bag of mini gala apples for $3. We bought a pork shoulder roast for $8 and got two and a half meals out of it. I got a whole chicken for $5, but it was spoiled so I had to return it and got a $7 chicken instead. They were out of $5 chickens."
Batali is now on day four of the week-long challenge, and says he has had to sacrifice to make the roughly $1.48-a-meal limit. Even hot dogs on the way to a basketball game for his boys, 14 and 15, were too expensive, so the family had to forego them.
"(The boys are) having more peanut butter and jelly than they've had in the last 10 years because bread is inexpensive and peanut butter and jelly, if you buy it at the right place at the right time, is cheap," Batali said.
Pesticide free foods have definitely been taken off the grocery list, says Batali, "the organic word slides out and saves you about 50 percent."
Batali is on the board of the Food Bank for New York City, a food relief group that is calling on celebrities to protest possible cuts to the Farm Bill, which provides food stamps to $1.8 million New Yorkers.
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