snap ed.101 or "let me pick my jaw up off the floor"

as you may or may not know. i work in a county extension office for a major university.  my job is to work with low-income families teaching them nutrition education.  my position is funded in part through a grant from usda/snap-ed...better know as the food stamp program.  i had this brilliant brain fart of an idea that instead of "pantry challenging" my family, that we would actually try to prove that a family can eat healthy on a food stamp allotment each month.  thereby proving to many, many of my clients that--it can be done.  well, after a few clicks of the mouse on the usda website, and my eyes are literally popping from my skull.  the monthly allotment for a family of 5 (mine) is approximately $793.  well, shit my knickers.  i cannot do this experiment.  in fact, the only way possible that i could do it, is if i actually received the @#*^#-ing food stamps.  we have 2 working adults in the home and we do not spend that much on groceries each month.  maybe when we are being extremely decadent, or it is a holiday, or we are having a party. but for pete's sake.  i am depressed.  no wonder we are in the shit bucket as a country...what's the incentive to work?  more research to come.  until then, trying to find a way to enJOY my peanut butter and jelly sandwich i brought for lunch.