Senator lives on food stamp diet - Omaha.com
State Sen. Heath Mello bought a loaf of wheat bread, a half-gallon of skim milk, peanut butter, jelly and Frosted Mini-Wheats from the grocery near his midtown Omaha home last Sunday.
Those five items, which rang up to less than $16.85, have constituted his entire diet this week.
Mello and Beverly Neel, an assistant to State Sen. Dave Bloomfield of Hoskins, are trying to subsist on the food allowance of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — commonly known as food stamps — in order to draw attention to the lack of healthy food available to low-income families.
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