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.)
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!
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.
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.
Is Otavio her servant or her (unfortunate) husband?
The whole premise of the article is based on a lie.
Food stamps are not designed to be your sole provider of food. They are meant to supplement the income you already have — such as a job or other government benefits.
One thing that can cut things down. $3 a loaf for bread. I was able to find a bread machine for $15 at the thrift store.
I'm not sure what people are expecting to be able to get on the government dole, which is supposed to be a supplement anyway (and, in turn, can be again supplemented by private charitable food banks/pantries depending on your location).