Rules

10 CHALLENGE RULES

So I am going to Live Below the Line. Thanks to the many people who have ask how. To be completely frank. I don't know how,but I am going to do it

Here are the rules:

• Live Below the Line Week
  From Monday, May 16 – Friday, May 20, I can spend no more than $1.50 per day on food and drink.

• Total budget

  I have a total of $7.50 with which to buy all ingredients for your meals. If you only use half a packet of something, I only need to budget for half the cost.

• Share your food
  I can share the cost of ingredients amongst a team, as long as no participant spends more than $1.50 per day or their total $7.50 budget. Having team dinner parties is a great way to enjoy the challenge!

• No sneaky snacks
  I can't grab snacks at home unless you include the cost of buying the item new from the supermarket in your budget.

• Garden goodies are OK I can use food sourced from your garden - if you factor in the cost of buying it from a market, supermarket, or other supplier.

• No meal combinations
  No combination of meals on any given day can exceed the $1.50 spending limit.

• No donated food
  I can't accept "donated" food from family or friends, but monetary donations towards your fundraising goal are acceptable and encouraged!

• Donation Goalpost So if you want to help,here is the link

  
  

  Help feed a hungry kids through Peter

  Please check back as I am going to try and post photos of this week

  
  

  Thanks Peter Bruce

  
  

Hugh Jackman video

Please watch what I am about to do,though this video presented by Mr Hugh Jackman

Here is the link to view...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCvNNSK7EKw&feature=player_embedded

Here is the link if you want to donate to my efforts...

http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=1124003&langPref=en-CA

Thanks Peter Bruce

$500,000

War is costing us $720 million a day or $500,000 a minute, according to the group's analysis of the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard public finance lecturer Linda J. Bilmes.

Given that 5 kids die every minute of hunger these figures just seem sickening to me. Are we really helping the world or are we poisoning the seed, the next generation.

Your thoughts

Cheers Peter Bruce

If you would like to donate to my Below the Line week here is the link.

Below the Line/Peter Bruce

Wal Mart Hunger

Here is a stat that most people don't know but should. If Wal Mart was to give 1% of it's sale to help world hunger it could be stamped out.

Yes 1%. If you are like me you find that shocking.

The graph above should there sale, and by easy math you can work it work,so it begs the big question,do companies really want to help stop hunger.

Hope you can donate to me, a little less than what Wal Mart could give. $1.50

Here is the link

Below the line/Peter Bruce

Thanks Peter Bruce

American waste

HOW MUCH FOOD DOES THE AMERICAN FAMILY WASTE

122 lbs. That’s how much enters the waste stream each month from the average American home (family of four). Ridiculous, sad, and incredible at the same time, isn’t it? A study conducted in 1995 estimated that 96.4 billion pounds of edible food was wasted each year . Just to think how much that could help 1.4 billion hungry people and how lucky we are to not listen to our tummy grumble

To help peter use this link

Cheers Peter Bruce

Fifth birthday

Did you know? In 2008, nearly 9 million children died before they reached their fifth birthday. One third of these deaths are due directly or indirectly to hunger and malnutrition.

The world is facing a hunger crisis unlike anything it has seen in more than 50 years.

925 million people are hungry.

Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes. That's one child every five seconds.The time it took you to read this.

There were 1.4 billion people in extreme poverty in 2005. The World Bank estimates that the spike in global food prices in 2008, followed by the global economic recession in 2009 and 2010 has pushed between 100-150 million people into poverty.

OK I know what you are saying now. Peter has told us this all before. Yes I have,you are right

Soon I start my journey for a week,only a week of trying to live on $1.50, unlike many people who have to do this day in day out,going to bed hungry. I am asking for two things. One your help,in the way of a $1.50 donation and two your best wishes.

Here is the link to donate to me

Below the line/help Peter Bruce

Thanks Peter Bruce

Millions of Children Still Hungry

More than a quarter of the children in the developing world are still critically undernourished, according to a new report. It also found 146 million children go hungry every day and 5.6 million kids die every year because they are not getting enough to eat -- a figure that corresponds to 10 children every minute.

"The lack of progress to combat malnutrition is damaging children and nations," said UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman. "Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty."

Children continue to die of hunger in huge numbers despite a worldwide drive to combat it. In 2000, the United Nations announced a series of "millennium development goals." One of the goals was to halve the number of people worldwide who suffer from not getting enough to eat. But the number of children who go hungry in the developing world has improved only slightly in 15 years. In 1990, 32 percent of kids in the developing world were undernourished; this year that figure is 27 percent.

As you know on May 16 I enbark on a journey to find out what it is like to go hungry. And try to live on $1.50 per day. If you would like to help I am asking for people to give a $1.50, about the same as your cup of coffee.If you don't want to help a thought is enough.

Here is the link to help...

HELP PETER WITH BELOW THE LINE $1.50 PER DAY

Thanks Peter Bruce

Coffee can save people

Yes coffee can save people...

But first we need to cover one thing. We need to love and feed our Dogs & Cats.

Now it is up to you to take a little heat,a little.

I love my coffee as much as anyone.Do I need it,yes some mornings it is a must,OK most mornings. But for a week I am going to go without (NO GUILT ON YOU). So how much do we spend on coffee while some people just try to get buy.Well, it depends where you go to get your coffee. If you go to a fast food place it will cost around $1.25 up to $1.50. If you go to Starbucks it might be a little more. Starbucks would cost about $2.50 to $5.00. It depends what size you get.

The National Average is $1.38/cup. The American coffee drinker consumes 3.2 cups per day!

So I will do the math for you

3.2

x $1.25

= $4 LOW SIDE per person per day

$16 HIGH SIDE per person per day

Therefore this is enough to feed....how many people.

So I hope you can take one of those cups of coffee and help and starving person. Here is the link to help

http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=1124003&langPref=en-CA Thanks for your help and good thoughts

Cheers Peter Bruce

Pets eat better an people

Food in this bowl $3.25

I love my pets, yes even my neurotic poodle on some days. And I am not saying that we should not take care of them,but I think we need to look at the whole picture. Most American spend more money on the pets to feed them than we spend on feeding some humans.(I know I am going to get bad e mail from the like of Peta etc). But lets go on here...

$45 Billion on pets This is in the USA only. I’d probably faint if I saw the international numbers. Here’s how we pet people spend all that money:

For 2009, it estimated that $45.4 billion will be spent on all pets in the U.S. in these categories:

1. Food………………………………………………………………….$17.4 billion

Now there are 1.4 billion starving people in the world.You do the math

2. Supplies/OTC Medicine…………………………………..$10.2 billion

3. Vet Care……………………………………………………………$12.2 billion

4. Live animal purchases……………………………………$ 2.2 billion

5. Pet Services: grooming & boarding………………….$ 3.4 billion

OK as I said I love animals, I am not saying they are less important than humans, god forbid some animals are better than human ( and the name michael vick comes to my head... WHY ) But people lets get back to basics here. People living on less per day in 3rd world countries than we feed our pets.Look at the big picture

As you know,and I would love for you to past this on to others,I am going to leave on a $1.50 (no Ia m not going to eat dog food) but think about not having coffee for a week.

If you want to donate to me here is the link. Min help $1.50

http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=1124003&langPref=en-CA

Cheers Peter Bruce

Realization of world hunger

Question, how do you feel when you see this photo of a child .

Read the last bullet point below

Realization of world hunger is a problem which needs to be a concern for all the people of the world. It is not a problem just for those it directly affects.

As citizens of the United States of America (U.S.A.) we constitute about 6% of the world's population. If the students in this classroom represented the world population then two people (have 2 students stand) would represent the population of the United States. Imagine these two people consuming 40%, or a little under half, of all the resources produced by everyone in the class. For example, these two would eat close to half of all combined lunches of the class.

It sounds ridiculous, doesn't it. And, if not ridiculous, it certainly sounds unfair. Well, it is true! The United States constitutes about 6% of the world's population and consumes about 40% of the world's resources. Resources include fuel, manufacturing materials, fabrics, food, and many other commodities. (Illustrate these facts by drawing pie charts on the board - one for population and one for world resources.)

In the U.S.A. we have so much food that we have millions of people who are trying to eat less, so they can lose weight. Dieting is almost a national obsession and is sometimes a health hazard.

Food is the resource we are most concerned about in our discussion on world hunger. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that of the world's 6-billion-plus people.

• at least ¾ of a billion people suffer from some form of malnutrition.
• about 50,000 people die each day as a result of malnutrition.
• 800 million people know what it is like to go to bed hungry.
• about 200 million children under the age of 5 are underweight.
• millions of children die each year from the diseases of poverty: parasites and infectious diseases such as whooping cough, measles, tuberculosis, and malaria, with accompanying diarrhea, which interact with poor nutrition in a vicious cycle.
• one child dies of these causes every two seconds
• HERE IS THE BIG ONE...15 children have died in the 30 seconds it took to read these statistics.

The four groups most often suffer the effects of hunger and malnutrition due to high nutrient needs or low tissue reserves are: children, pregnant women, those who are ill, and the elderly.

People in other countries also have an obsession. Their obsession is to have enough food to eat and to maintain life. Many are so poor they do not have the means to buy enough food for their families to stay well and stay alive. Many countries do not have the abundance of food which U.S. citizens have available.

I hope you can help with my journey. Please just think of me May 16-21

And if you want to help a hungry person in a third world country please go to this web site here to donate...

http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=1124003&langPref=en-CA

Min donation $1.50 A lot ha.

Cheers Peter Bruce

What is Hunger.

WHAT IS HUNGER?

Everyone knows the feeling of hunger as the urge to eat that signals the time for the next meal. But many know hunger as a constant companion because that meal does not follow. Then hunger is ceaseless discomfort, weakness, and pain. The term as used here means a continuous lack of the nutrients necessary to achieve and maintain optimum health, well-being, and protection from disease. People who live with hunger may simply have too little food to eat, or may not choose enough nutritious foods from those available. One form of hunger is a "choice they are forced to make" and the other is a "choice they freely make". To say this, though, is to fail to describe the depth of the experience of living without food. The following excerpt from a writer in India describes hunger in more personal terms:

For hunger is a curious thing: at first it is with you all the time, waking and sleeping and in your dreams, and your belly cries out insistently, and there is a knawing and a pain as if your very vitals were being devoured, and you must stop it at any cost, and you buy a moment's respite even while you know and fear the sequel. Then the pain is no longer sharp but dull, and this too is with you always, so that you think of food many times a day and each time a terrible sickness assails you, and because you know this you try to avoid the thought, but you cannot, it is with you. Then that too is gone, all pain, all desire, only a great emptiness is left, like the sky, like a well in drought, and it is now that the strength drains from your limbs, and you try to rise and you cannot, or to swallow and your throat is powerless, and both the swallow and the effort of retaining the liquid tax you to the uttermost.

When people in the United States go to the grocery store they have a choice of thousands of products including fresh meats, fruits and vegetables, and dairy products, as well as countless prepared foods. Few nations in the world have these choices. Even people in some supposedly developed countries have limited food choices.

In the book Mig Pilot, John Barron tells of the escape of Viktor Belenko, a Russian pilot, who defects to the United States. At one point his CIA companions take Viktor to a shopping center. This story illustrates that in many modern countries people have limited resources and only the very rich in many other nations can afford the things that United States citizens often take for granted.

In countries known as third world countries, or developing countries, the food situation is much more severe. In countries such as India, several areas of Africa, and parts of South America hundreds of people die of starvation every day.

It is hard for us to imagine situations like the one described in the poem, THE ARITHMETIC OF POVERTY.

So I hope you find this interesting. Hope you can help me out with my cause

Here is a link...

http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=1124003&langPref=en-CA

If not please think of me when you eat.

Cheers Peter

Live below the line

Have you ever been hungry. No not to much coffee and your tummy rumbles.Really hungry.Welcome to the world of almost 1 billion kids. On May 16th I am going to live on $1.50, which is what most hungry people in the world live on. See what Iam doing & how to help at this link.

http://www.livebelowtheline.com/get-involved/featured-participants/

If you can not help out that is great,but I ask one thing. Think next time you eat

Cheers Peter

Live below the line Global Poverty Project

Thanks for following me on the journey.

From 16 - 20 May I'll be living on $1.50 per day for food 5 days to help raise awareness for issues of extreme poverty in our world.

1.4 BILLION people are forced to live every day on $1.50. Food, drink, health expenses, housing, transportation, education - all living costs must be covered by this amount. It's a feat impossible to imagine - but it's the reality for nearly one quarter of the world's population. I mainly feel the PAIN for KIDS,who don't ask for this,but are trapped in it.

Population U.S. 311,239,062 World 6,914,666,412. "You do the Math"

Your support is important, not just in money but in mind. (and a Hardy meal on day 6 would be nice)

But more importantly . Between these days ,please stop & think...

Every time you open your wallet to buy food,open your mouth to take a bite of food,every time you smell food. Think about not having it,not just not having it, but not being able too have it.

Thanks for stopping & helping.

Just a much as I need your help I need a BUZZ please pass this to others.

Post on your Facebook etc

Cheers Peter

Here is the site to help

http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx?registrationID=1124003&langPref=en-CA

Please stop back here to see how I am doing