$5 per person per day would easily double my families' weekly food budget, and also would exceed the "household budget" (food, plus necessities like TP, laundry detergent, shampoo, etc etc etc) as well.
Frankly, I'd *like* to have a budget like that to spend; it would make things a lot easier for me. Especially since I've not seen much movement, salary-wise, in the past 5 years or so. What the heck, at least I still have a job.
Sometimes I wonder what world these pundits live in....
The last I knew, you were considered “hungry” if you missed just ONE of your 3 daily meals in a month. How dumb is that??
I doubt you could eat well on $5 per day.
I do it regularly, thanks.
You could easily get by on $2 of rice and beans a day.
yep.
I could spend 10 bucks and make a pot of spaghetti and meat sauce to last me 2-3 days. Or a pot of beans and ham-hocks would be even cheaper. Might even have enough for a box of Little Debbies for dessert...
IF you are making your own food, five dollars a day per person can get a little tight, but its pretty doable.
Well, for the current value of $5, right now on on 23 Sept. Who knows what it will be like next month.
“Sigh. I could eat easily on $5/day, and fairly well.”
Really? Three squares/day on five bucks? Not where I’ve ever lived.
gosh, you’d almost never be able to afford fresh arugula and your latte would have to be made from instant coffee!!!
the HORROR
“SNAP provides $5 a day to help those unable to purchase food.”
A lie, a plain, simple lie.
SNAP pays $200/mo to those who have no money for food.
What a stupid lie this is, and how determined they are to push it on people. They take the ‘average’ SNAP payment, which includes payments to people making plenty of money- people who get say a $30/mo benefit. Then lie that that is what a needy person gets.
Lie, lie ,lie some more.
Last week my wife made a hearty dinner that cost *grand total* $2.05 for three adults and two kids. Total, not each.
Kielbasa zataran rice mix - delicious
Green bean casserole (Green Giant premade)
Crescent rolls
Orange slices
In case you can’t tell, she coupons.
What part of "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" is so hard to comprehend? It's to supplement food budget, not act as the whole budget alone.
The author needs to read his own writing. The S in SNAP stands for Supplemental. It was never supposed to stand alone.
5 McD’s double cheeseburgers a day
-each-
440 calories
23g fat
25g protein
1g salt
yup, with 5 of these, plus a vitamin,
one could do quite well
Well, any idiot that believes these massaged statistics with their weasel words, put this in a crockpot and cook it and eat it becuse IT'S A CROCK OF S***!
If you order 5 McDouble’s off the dollar menu at McDonald’s, your daily calorie intake would be 1950. That’s essentially hitting your maximum recommended calories for an adult male off 5 bucks while having someone else prepare your meal.
If you’re willing to do a little of the work yourself, you can easily feed a family of four off 5 bucks a day. The ingredients for a huge pot of borcht are less than $5...That’s why eastern Europeans subsisted on it.
Many Asians practically live off white steamed rice with little bits of vegetable and mean added in.
What liberals *really* mean is that on five bucks a day, those on SNAP can’t eat as well as those of us who work for a living.
Most people forget about spoilage, which is a stealth expense that almost everyone realizes. $5 isn’t as realizable as you think.
“Remember that $5 has to include your morning coffee”
The insinuation here is that you’re stupid enough to spend most of the $5 on a cup of coffee from a drive-up or such rather than making your own from drip at home where a $7 can will make coffee for a month.
And so on. For crying out loud, of course one person can eat quite well on $5.00 a day. Want a burger? Good ground round is what, $4 a pound? Three 1/3 pound burgers right there - add a few pennies worth of condiments and veggies and a bun from the 8-pack and you’ve got a better burder than you’ll pay $10 for at the foo-foo restaurants. Fries? Buy a sweet potato, slice it and roast in the oven and it’s not only better for you but tastes better too. And on and on....no ramen noodles need apply.
Yes, if you know how to cook with scratch ingredients, use leftovers, etc., you could actually eat rather well for that.
Our mothers and grandmothers who were full-time homemakers knew this and devoted great time and skill towards it.
I have been supplementing several friends who have been cut back on hours due to obummer care...
It helps that I am a power shopper and they are not too picky.
But it still pisses me off.
I am taking my prepper food and cycling it back before it expires to help my 28 hour friends...
I am glad that i can cycle the food so it won;t go bad, but it still pisses me off...
I could have answered yes to this at any point in college or the years immediately after, and I never really considered it a problem as long as I had beer.
I’m often downtown in our little city at daybreak. I have yet to see the garbage truck picking up the bodies of those who have starved to death the day before.