Darryl and Martha Wagner are two ordinary people who find themselves requiring assistance from the CHAPS food pantry in Logan. Darryl just turned 70 and receives about $1,000 each month for his retirement. They spend around $900 each month on rent, utilities and a car payment, and as Darryl said, "the bills are piling up every day." Martha has cancer and lost her parents and her brothers to the disease. She had surgery eight times in the past 10 years and currently sees four different doctors.

In order to get to her medical appointments, Darryl and Martha must drive eighty miles round-trip. Even with Medicaid, their gas and $10 co-payments add up, so they swallowed their pride and applied for food stamps. After filling out an application that asked 700 questions, Darryl and Martha were congratulated on being entitled to $10 in monthly benefits! When an outreach worker spoke with Darryl and Martha, neither of them had eaten for three days. There was not a single can or box of food in their cupboards, after months of trying to stretch everything they had. Martha had watered down a can of tomato juice to last two weeks. She had added extra water to cans of soup to try and make it last a second day. They once had chicken noodle soup with no chicken and noodles made from one egg and a little flour. Martha would often lie to her husband and say that she wasn't hungry so that he could eat. "We never asked for help," they said, until the doctor gave her two days to live if she did not start eating again. The food pantry helped them with a few bags of groceries, and for now, they say, "we don't have to add water to everything because we can eat again."