Can You Live on Food Stamp Assistance?

Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker is drawing attention to the difficulties faced by families who rely on food stamps (the SNAP program) for their nutritional needs, spending only $33.00 for a week of food:

Cory Booker has been known to run into burning buildings to save his constituents. But last Thursday, the Newark, N.J., mayor’s biggest challenge was whether or not he could get through a single meeting without taking a nibble of one Christmas cookie.
Booker, 43, and a rising star Democrat, has been living on just $33 of food over the last week as part of an effort to understand the plight of Americans who struggle to live on food stamps. The experiment ends Tuesday.
Booker has said he’s trying to raise public awareness about the struggles of average Americans amid threats of federal funding cuts to food stamp programs around the nation. But the mayor’s very public campaign comes as Booker mulls a challenge to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in next year’s gubernatorial race.

Here in Montana, according to the Montana Partnership to End Child Hunger: