Posted on 08/07/2007 11:00:37 AM PDT by NEMDF
I wonder how much each of these barbecue chicken wing, biscuit-and-glaze, frozen pizza, gummi bear eating people weigh.
It's amazing that she buys all this pricey precooked prepared food when she sits around the house all day.
She certainly has time to make food from scratch for much cheaper.
And if you think about, having NO JOB so you would have ALL DAY to do things like clean and cut up the carrots, cook in batches, etc., etc. And sometimes at my house we eat beanie weanie or eggs or the $.99/lb chicken parts because that IS ALL WE CAN AFFORD. And I have never FELT SORRY for myself over it.
I couldn't tell you the last time we spent $500 on food in a month, including crap like soda, candy, and snacks.
She only gets 4 meals out of 10 pounds of hamburger? I don’t want to brag but I think I could get 8 meals out of 10 pounds. For the 3 of us when my son was a teenager I could stretch a pound of hamburger to 2 meals.
Shepard calls ahead on her cell phone to round up carriers....How much that costin’ me?
either did we...and we had 6 kids and a grandmother that stayed with us for a few years....
we ate apples...my mom worked occassionally picking apples so that is one thing we always had....
my mom made her own pizza, which was called "hot pie" back where I come from....dough and all.....she made the sauce by mixing tomato paste with a little water and oregano and other herbs or spices...we put cheese on it but never any meat...
she canned...she made home made soup....we had a good garden and we would eat tomato or cucumber sandwiches every day for lunch during the summer....
we had meatloaf...spaghetti...rarely did we have steak...maybe never.....
$500 seems like a lot to me.....this woman has nothing to complain about....
Maybe they are too fat to work.
“Shepard calls ahead on her cell phone to round up carriers”
Who pays for the cell phone?
The food budget does goe up in the summer, but I’m surprised her 10 pounds of hamburger only makes four meals. That’s 2 1/2 pounds per meal! For only five people? Ten pounds would be 10 meals around here ;-)
It’s too bad home economics classes are no longer taught in school. I think the mom in the story needs some advice, and I think the writer probably grew up in a home where pinching pennies on the grocery budget would have been exotic.
I spend $300 to $400 a week on groceries, but then again I pay for it....
btt
The only point made here was the cost of food is going up at almost twice the rate of inflation, and that was only for the month of June.
One could argue that the administration in Washington is not doing enough to see that people are getting access to the fruits and vegetables that they will need to help win the war on the epidemic of obesity by reading between the lines but you’re right, this qualifies more as filler as it stands.
“It’s too bad home economics classes are no longer taught in school.”
Shop, too. But that would be sexist. Better to have all those sex ed classes.
The oldest ones can work, and why is welfare paying for kids over 18 anyway - shouldn't they get their own welfare allowances? OR A JOB????
I am so tired of this welfare state of affairs in America. Too much Gimme and not enough Give.
Yep, she gets housing free, free medical, $500 a month in free food, no wonder she can afford a cellphone and a taxi ride. Wah, what a great country, where having a cell phone and digital cable (i'm SURE she has!) still allows you to be considered poor.
Shiite, she's better off than many honest people who work fro a damn living.
That's funny. I love cherries, but they're so expensive that I never buy them. I can't justify the expense. I try and rationalize, but it's just not worth the $4 per lb they cost. Maybe I need to get on food stamps.
“One could argue that the administration in Washington is not doing enough to see that people are getting access to the fruits and vegetables that they will need to help win the war on the epidemic of obesity”
I feed my family plenty of fruits and vegetables on less than this woman spends. But, my kids can’t have big bags of gummy bears at $2 per bag when I can buy 4-6 apples or a bag of carrots for the same price.
Yes and it did say she passed on bananas... generally one of the least expensive fruits. And she does seem to buy frozen veggies which are generally more costly than canned. So I don’t really think the administration in Washington somehow should be seeing that we have access to fruits and vegetables.
I will never forget being behind a woman in line at the store in Chicago who bought Salmon and Beef for her cat when they told her she couldn’t get the catfood for stamps. Oh yeah, she had a cab waiting for her outside as well.
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