Berry'd Alive: Eleanor Holmes Norton shows how not to stretch your food stamp budget

Not easy to shop on food stamp budget – $31.50 a week. #SNAPChallenge pic.twitter.com/wo7dCrknDw

— Eleanor Holmes Norton (@EleanorNorton) June 12, 2013

No, it’s not easy. $31.50 is not much money for a week’s worth of food. Yet somehow, tens of millions of Americans find a way to manage, and some have enough left over to buy iPhones.

Of course, it’s especially tough to stay within your food stamp allotment if you spend $4.99 — 16% of your weekly food budget — buying about seven blueberries.