A day after finishing a week-long diet in which she attempted to eat no more than $30 worth of groceries, D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) sponsored a resolution bemoaning planned federal cuts to food stamp programs.

As she predicted, an anti-hunger activist who put herself on a $30 food budget for the past week is feeling kind of lousy.

Could you feed yourself on $30 worth of groceries a week? Anti-hunger activists and a few District officials are seeing if they can live on a food stamp budget.

Can you survive on $4.44 a day for food? Like D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton before him, star chef Mario Batali is having trouble.