Posted on 06/27/2016 11:36:08 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Soda speeds up digestion - it makes people hungrier.
The bubbles break up the food.
The sugar/HFCS causes the pancreas to release insulin (and I believe digestive enzymes).
If I need a meal to last me, I’ll never drink a soda with it.
All forms of sugar/HFCS should be avoided if you want to stretch your food budget.
Meals should be balanced.
One doesn’t live on rice and beans alone.
The Chinese add meat and veggies to their rice.
And then. We get to pay for their health problems too.
If I were in charge, I would make a government store that only sells the absolute basics. No premade meals, no soda, no candy, no lobster, no junk food of any kind. Just basics. This would be the only place that accepts food stamps. And if Expensive cars, or spinny rims, or other displays of “wealth” (extreme finger quote) show up in the parking lot, an automatic audit is triggered
Yup, I can agree it’s easily do able and made better if people think to find discount stores that sell produce and healthy foods.
I wonder why you mention $30/week? I know single adults getting $200/month ebt, they run out of $ in 3 weeks usually ‘scrounging’ the last week of month!
in Rochester, NY you can use your EBT at vendor kiosks during outdoor festivals
Food stamps used to not allow candy, sodas, alcohol and fake foods.
I totally agree as I work in the inner city. The 50+ year-old knows how to cook and eat, the thirty or less does not have a clue. It was always interesting going out in the shop at lunch time. The old guys all had tupperware tubs stuff of leftovers, the young guys eat garbage.
There is a need for training, but the schools are so into testing, commons sense is thrown out the window. I remember shop classes, home economics, typing class, .... there was always a track for success, now the road is lost.
A couple of years ago, Gweneth Paltrow opened her yap on the subject. Had a few things in a basket, which were ridiculous.
The average is $127 per month per person.
I do about $300 a month for 2 people. With MY OWN money.
If I had to, I could cut it down to $127 per person. But that would mean cutting out things like ice cream and pop and chips.
Just came across a sale last Thursday. Split chicken breasts w/ rib meat, for $0.69#.
Boy did I stock up (stocking up is the key)
Got home and cut the rib portions off. Divided the chicken into 2 pieces per package, then threw them in the freezer. The rib meat got boiled, then bones and stuff removed, then made chicken and dumplings. Mmmm...good and CHEAP.
The breasts are large enough for 1 per person. That's $0.90 a breast (not figuring what was used for chicken and dumplings), add rice and some veggies and you have a great meal for under $1.50 per person.
Oh yeah...the store I do most of my shopping has a rewards program, where they have coupons and offer rewards for certain spends. I have 2 running concurrently right now. Spend $60 on fresh meat get $4 off and Spend $175 throughout the store get $6 off.
Well, $60 got spent on chicken, so I'll get $4 the next time I shop. But it also puts me $60 closer to the $175 goal.
Basically, I just saved another 10% on an already good deal.
But it takes work to plan things out.
Work you can tell most EBT users don't put in, by just looking in their carts.
Not flaming you, just saying that food stamps were set up so Americans would not starve.
It has been corrupted, as the governor points out, so that people use it to buy stuff it was never intended to provide. People in homeless shelters are fed. Why do they need food stamps?
I’m talking about people who game the system and use it as another source of income. This is just another area where Americans are fed up with programs we pay for that don’t make any sense.
I say NO.
People need to learn how to make choices. That is primary reason many of the people are on Govt assistance, they don’t know how to make wise choices, and the responsibility of their choices.
Having box pre made is the same baloney many churches do for the illegals/poor in my area. churches say they are helping but really just enabling, since the ones I asked do NOTHING to connect with these people to truly try to help them up and out of poverty or getting legal - just ‘feel good’ handing out boxes of food.
Still like those diet items but realize why they were staples in my youth. Now, the whole thrust of the Dept. of Agriculture's programs is to place no limits on the use of food programs with massive fraud identified and tolerated ad nauseam!!
One can cook rice and beans, etc., with a hot plate. If they don’t know how, time to learn. Learning comes quick if one is hungry.
Which Obama is he talking to? Michelle loves to dictate what people can consume.
Not all people have facilities where they can cook or prepare a meal, and worse, there’s plenty who don’t even know how to.
And your point being???...
Gees, my relatives on government aid all have smart phones. There are millions of videos on Youtube on how to cook and bake. I know. I've watched half of them.
If someone wanted to save money on food stamps, instead of buying Hamburger Helper or Shake N Bake, there are vids showing you how to make your own.
I fully agree.
Isn’t that sweet?
“One can cook rice and beans, etc., with a hot plate. If they don’t know how, time to learn. Learning comes quick if one is hungry.”
Yes, but my original post was that there are those who do not even have a hot plate. Yes, they can hide out in the bushes somewhere and start a fire and cook their beans and rice that way, and some do. But some can’t even do that. Not all can utilize dried, bulk foods. The program needs to be overhauled big time. It no longer is intended just for the very needy, but rather is intended to create more people dependent upon the government for their every need.
The don’t have resources is BS. In a 100% primitive setting (I literally throw a sleeping bag on the ground out of my open top landcruiser at a totally random flat enough location in the desert. Between a $20 dollar hibachi stove from any asian market that burns propane at $5 for about 20 hours, a dutch oven, or just a small campfire, I can cook almost anything I can make in my kitchen. just this year meals have included prime rib, king crab, pad thai, bacon wrapped scallops, beef barley soup, ox tail pho, cornish game hens, tiramisu cheese cake, fried ice cream, cajun shrimp, low country boil, and summer has just barely. All of this outdoors 50 miles from the nearest human being, and zero running water or any other kind of “facilities”
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