Can You Feed Yourself on Just $6 a Day?

  • February 19, 2026
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Thursday, Feb. 19: Utahns Against Hunger and Create Better Health Utah invite you to take the annual SNAP Challenge and find out what 170,000 Utahns already know: no one should go hungry. Threadwork Collective's Lianna Manibog with a different kind of challenge. Plus, RadioACTive's Asha Pruitt talks with Uma Khandkar, her aunt and host of the Bollywood show Sangeet Malar on KRCL in the 90s.

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  • TODAY is day 30 of 45 for the 2026 General Session of the 67th Legislature @ the Utah State Capitol, 350 N State St, SLC. To follow the legislative session through more than 40 Utah groups, click here.

  • Feb. 23-27: Utahns Against Hunger and Create Better Health Utah challenge Utahnsto take the $6-a-Day SNAP Challenge. UAH Executive Director Gina Cornia explains the challenge. 

    • Spend no more than $6 a day on groceries per person. That means that the maximum you should spend on groceries for the entire challenge is $30 per person.

    • Only use food purchased with the allocated $6 to prepare your meals. If you choose to use food that you have previously purchased, we encourage you to factor the cost of the item into your total for groceries.

    • Try to avoid accepting free food from work, events, or gatherings to have a more authentic experience of living on SNAP.

    • You may only purchase items that are eligible for SNAP with the allocated $6 a day. This means that alcoholic beverages, sodas, hot/prepared foods, or non-food items should be purchased separate to the challenge. We encourage you to avoid purchasing these items as much as possible

The Work of Community

Lianna Manibog, founder of The Threadwork Collective, returns to continue our collaboration on people power and community-led change. 

KRCL History Meets the DJ: Uma Khandkar

RadioACTive producer Asha Pruitt talks with her aunt, Uma Khandkar, who hosted the Bollywood show Sangeet Malar on KRCL in the 90s. She talks about the music she grew up listening to in Malaysia and discusses how the Indian community in Salt Lake has changed in the past 30 years — along with KRCL itself. 

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  • Share your thoughts, suggestions and observations by calling the RadioACTive hotline: ‪(385) 800-1889. Or, send a voice memo to radioactive@krcl.org. Please tell us your name and neighborhood, and leave a brief message that we may air on the show. 

  • The views, opinions and statements expressed on RadioACTive are solely those of the respective speakers and do not represent or reflect the views, opinions or positions of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, nor its hosts, sponsors, or partners.

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