Posted on 04/11/2015 7:16:17 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
One CEO tests how healthy low-income families can eat under the U.S. governments’ food assistance program.
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I can tell you when I was growing up in the 40’s and 50’s we did what we had to to eat..
One Uncle and Aunt had a poultry farm, another Uncle and Aunt raised crops for the cannery, and a dairy farm on top of that....
All my Aunts would get together and can and bottle and make jellies and jams, the Uncles would kill beef, pig and chickens and turkeys and we would all divide it..
On top of the all that, everyone worked, you were not allowed any t.v. nor did you have time to ‘walk the streets’ you were busy and it didn’t hurt me one bit..
We need to go back to that life, even tho my youngest Grandson wouldn’t like it, no computer, IPad and cell phone, or T V ...
I'd like to see government pantries set up in communities where they stock the beans, rice, cheese and powdered milk.
Supermarkets should have no capability to process EBT cards. Supermarkets should exist for people who can pay for their food. And anyone can pay for some food -- just make the effort. And if you want it completely free, just go and enjoy your beans, rice, cheese and powdered milk.
Whatever happened to Home-Economics classes, where they taught people how to really cook and make the most of a food budget?
Home Ec probably wasn't as good as having a mother and grandmother teach you how to do this, but it was something, at least.
I still remember when canned foods alloted for food stamp users all had black and white labels.
Yes.
Since this has been hashed and rehashed for the past couple of years can we let it go? Please?
CEO's probably can't. But normal people can.
So please if they could move on to the next flavor of the month?
May I suggest, why are the prices of thing in the used stores so high?
Red beans and rice with a poached egg on top and some greens on the side — that’s a meal fit for a king in my opinion. I could easily and happily live on $4 a day.
Frozen Vegetables are just as healthy as fresh. A well balanced diet is eaten AT HOME, not at the local gas and sip.
My family has had the unfortunate incidence when both my wife and I where without work, She being treated for cancer, I having stayed at home to care for the children.
We HAD TO sign up for SNAP. It was the largest food allowance we ever had budgeted. We had more $ for food than we needed.
Of course I did as I always do and bought sale items with coupons, some that doubled, shopped around, and bought in bulk. We had six months of support and ate for more than a year.
It is SUPLEMENTAL. You are supposed to bring your own $ to the table. Also every child that lives in a house on SNAP gets FREE Breakfast and Lunch at school. FREE! Most of these kids eat better and more than they should as can be seen by the expanded waist lines of our poorest citizens.
People are just poor planners and spoiled stupid.
That train has passed. The outrage on just taking away steak and lobster is insane.
Fried potato’s beans and cornbread are a staple in our house.
If you have to live on a limited income, it's amazing what you can do to stretch the budget and still eat. The problem is the vast majority of assistance recipients don't want to make the effort.
Modernize it. There is now a complete (you can in fact live on it indefinitely) powdered meal drink: http://Soylent.me
(Yes it’s called Soylent, no it’s not green.)
$2.50/meal, enough to live on, simple, you want anything else you pay for it.
It is deemed healthy and you can survive on it. It keeps without refrigeration for weeks. Just add boiling water and stir.
That, my friends, is food fit for those who want it free.
Well. All these questions are going to be settled by Gyneth....whatever the hell her name is. She’s gonna eat on $29 a day/week (whatever).....
BTW, does she still have that fake British accent?
$4 of beans, rice, some kind of greens and corn bread will feed you for more than one day.
Well, if the “gimmedatstuff” types didn’t use their EBT cards for everything from lottery tickets to vacations, they definitely could. And yes, it’s been proven time and again they DO buy non-essentials with their no-work-for-welfare. Another thing we thank the socialist Obambi for.
Precisely. The name of the program is "Supplemental" Nutrition Assistance Program. I wish just once someone would challenge these retards with that.
From what I see, SNAP EBT is for steaks, hohos, chips and dip for these people. They save the WICs certificates for milk, bread, butter and eggs.
If you eat out, there's no way $4 per day will make it.
Illegal mamasitas are very good at that.
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