Posted on 06/01/2007 5:27:07 PM PDT by Huntress
This is what happens when you depend on others for food.
I’m waiting for someone who wants to make cheap eating look GOOD to do the experiment. It’s always the morons who want to make it look sympathetic who “struggle” through the process.
Give them more for doing less. Move to europe.
“the author’s condescending tone makes me want to vomit.”
the author is condescending because he is truly superior as one of the saviours of mankind. (sarcasm off)
(i meant no blasphemy but apparently they truly think they will save mankind.)
That's exactly what we're raising in the publik skoolz....dependents, and a class of people who think the "rich bastards" should pay for my food, housing, car, entertainment, medical care, etc., etc.
The Hildabeast will merely "take from you, for the common good..."
Hey, I’ve been on food stamps, although about 25 years ago. Seasonal business with very little income during the winter. I qualified for about five months one year. Ate exceptionally well.
What the article doesn’t say is that food stamps were never intended to provide the entire food budget. They’re supposed to be a supplement.
BTW, although I probably qualified in several more winters, I never applied again. Just didn’t feel right taking the stamps when we didn’t really need them.
It is a SUPPLEMENT for buying food. Not the sole source of funds for buying food.
I just spent $30.00 taking my wife out on a date.
I like to dip my steak into the fried apples at the local stake house.
Anybody can live on $5 bucks of food, I do it everyday. Today I bought 10 pieces of chicken breast (with the bone) for $4.45 at the supermarket and I could only eat 5. I already had the vegetables, but you could but vegetables in a can for probably less than a buck. If you eat out or you`re Michael Moore, that`s another story, but here in Queens New York, food is cheap as hell. You can buy a bag of spaghetti for .49 cents and a big bottle of spaghetti sauce for 2 bucks, and about 4 potatoes for another 2 bucks. If anyone can eat all that in one sitting, or even a day, then they must be the size of Ted Kennedy.
the entire family lost the freedom to choose what to eat and when.
Twenty years ago I ate 79 cents frozen dinners ,drank store brand soft drinks, and cheap store cookies to stretch a limited income.No reason anyone else can't do the same.No one should be reduced to ramen noodles and water(except for dieters and violent prisoners)
Paying other people to prepare and serve the food is the most costly ingredient.
He reminds me of that anal retentive souding idiot who ate McDonalds everyday for a month and made that movie “Super size me”. That had to be the most annoying, the most idiotic movie I ever seen in my life. I mean what was the point? That he`s an idiot? What`s his next feature, eating ice cream for breakfast lunch and dinner everyday for a month? Wow, how brilliant!
But it is only the fiscal conservatives who live on $5.54 a day. The libertarians eat whatever they like, which costs them a pretty penny; the establishment Republicans are waited on by illegal immigrants; and the social conservatives have a lot to swallow in our society.
She could save money by dropping the nauseating yuppy ingredients from her recipes. Spaghetti is good, cheap, and requires no yogurt. 15 bean soup is delicious, and costs practically nothing. For a family of four, you can make two or three meals out of a cheap roast and some vegetables.
Her family wasn’t starving because of lack of food. The problem was her choice of ingredients. I wouldn’t eat that crap if you paid me.
I don't know what to say to such an idiotic statement.
Apparently not being able to afford something means that you've been denied the right to choose it.
Amazing.
I bet some of you know how to stretch a dollar until it squeals and still make something yummy. I admit to being jealous of women who have a family of 7 and can feed them on $50 a week.
That’s exactly what we’re raising in the publik skoolz....dependents, and a class of people who think the “rich bastards” should pay for my food, housing, car, entertainment, medical care, etc., etc.
I found the article to be very informative, the author has a proper tone as well, trying to live on Govt Assistance is no fun, and for a reason, the Govt wants the serfs to sing the praises of whomever gives the serfs another dime.
“Hildebeast really cares, look we got another 10 dollars in food stamps...”
And the author was missing one of the key points, if you are going to dine like that, then it should be for a reason, not as a choice, her friend used the money she saved for home decor for example.
And she was fortunate, most of the “poor” have to take public transport, which means hours of waiting for the bus or a ride from a friend.
All in all, it is a miserable way to live, depending on the Govt for food and transportation..damn..full body shudder I woudl do anything to keep my family from living like that, yet they want to make the cage a little more comfy for the inhabitants..that is just plain old stupid, and one more reason to despise liberals, to offer that as a way of life is not doing anyone any favors at all.
Fish see bait, not hook...
And she should have cooked more pasta...:)
Surely food stamps were intended as a supplement, not your entire food budget. If it’s your entire food budget, you can eat rice, beans, and cheese until your situation improves.
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