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Edwin Eshagzadeh, a fourth-year psychobiology student, tried to follow a food budget that replicated food stamps this past week.

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Food Stamp Challenge at UCLA explores food insecurity

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Pushing his cart through the aisles of Ralphs, Edwin Eshaghzadeh picked out peanut butter, bread, eggs, yogurt, tuna and black beans. Eshaghzadeh had only $31.30 to spend for a week’s worth of food, a budget he has not followed since he was a child and his family was on food stamps.

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Food Stamp Challenge at UCLA explores food insecurity

By Madeleine Wright

Nov. 27, 2013 1:47 a.m.