$5.25 per person for a family of 4. so $21 per day to eat. I could feed myself and 3 friends wonderfully on that ‘free’ money. I buy all these foods myself anyway and live cheap but have great meals when I have the time to prepare.
20lb sack of spuds, 20lb bag of rice, 20lb bag of flour, 20lb bag of sugar, a bunch of bulk spices from the discount food store, fresh vegetables, a gallon of vinegar, a gallon of oil. I have a $5 thrift store breadmaker I use almost daily. I eat lots of fish that is either free or bought from the boats (when in hawaii) or sold from coolers (in idaho).
I suggest the people that will complain about how little SNAP and food stamps are go visit a Mexican family for dinner. OH MY GOODNESS. Fantastic food with innexpensive ingredients. One word for cheap food of the gods, “TAMALE.”
ROFL!!!! That's what we had for dinner tonight.
I always make a huge amount of them when I make them because they are time consuming, but they take the same amount of time to cook whether I'm making a dozen for us for one dinner or 8 dozen for 8 dozen for a dozen meals.
I also make my own sauces for them - which are really cheap because I grow my own peppers, tomatoes and tomatillos. But even buying dried peppers is dirt cheap, just a few go a very long way.
Something that is rarely talked about, and hardly ever promoted at all about SNAP funds, is they can be used to purchase fruit, vegetable, and herb seeds and plants. I know this because over the course of a couple of months I spent an entire month's worth of SNAP funds purchasing them back when we were getting SNAP.
Yeah, I don’t see eating these sorts of foods as deprivation at all. Inexpensive staple foods are flat out great eating when prepared well.