(CNN) --   CNN correspondent Sean Callebs has just finished a long assignment: living on food stamps during all of February. He tracked his experiences on the American Morning blog. CNN's Sean Callebs with a meal he prepared living on a food-stamp budget. This meant no eating out, no food on the run while covering stories and no enjoying king cake and other New Orleans specialties during Mardi Gras. The food stamp program, newly named the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), is run by the Department of Agriculture and provides food to those in need. The latest numbers show 31 million Americans are relying on supplemental food assistance to get by every month.
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CNN's Sean Callebs talks about his month living on a food-stamp budget
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He lost some weight but learned how to better cook, budget and bargain-hunt
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Callebs cut out diet soda "treat" and experienced less acid reflux
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Range of responses from readers, from "can't be done" to "welcome to my world"
(According to @placeholder, the average monthly stipend was about $96 per person and about $215 per household in 2007.)