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The challenges of eating right on a limited budget
Nowadays, the food prices get higher than our salary, especially vegetables and fruits, which provide lots of nutrition to us. It seems that the poor people could not afford the cost of healthful food so that they choose junk food for their meals unwillingly.

As an university student, I had faced seas of difficulties because of my limited allowance. I spent more money on foods than before and I seldom made ends meet without the support of my dear mom. In this report shows an interesting experiment that the couple in United States lived for a month on just a dollar a day for food. They couldn’t gain enough nutrition with the lack of money. On the contrary, our former president had a hunger strike in order to protest the verdict of him. The media in Taiwan paid attention to haw many meals he had refused to eat without concerning the poor people who had to struggle on the edge of death.

Currently, our government decided the policy of sending the consumed tickets to all the citizens in Taiwan. According to the report from newspaper, over sixty percent people wanted to use the money to buy the necessaries without the luxurious goods. If the economy slump could not be solved after the policy, we should live in the dogs’ life in the near future.(224 words)