Posted on 09/23/2013 1:20:00 PM PDT by wbill
$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
Maybe not Surf and Turf, but I'd not go hungry.
“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.
I do it often enough. And I am very healthy because of it.
Me too.
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.
2 hard boiled eggs and coffee for breakfast
And orange for lunch and a bannana with a glass of milk
Mashed potatoes and ground beef with gravy and some canned corn
about $4
Not go hungry, but not eating healthy, which is the point of the article.
Ramen and Coke does not make for a healthy, nutritionally balanced meal.
See post #12.
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
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