Don't forget the cream cheese!
Posted on 03/21/2009 12:34:51 PM PDT by grundle
... she makes chicken for her children but eats Oodles of Noodles herself...
... She is 29, with twin babies and a toddler, facing eviction because she's $300 behind on rent...
... The little girl, 15-16 months old, wears a striped top that swallows her tiny arms. Her nose is runny, her eyes empty. Hers is not the picture of hunger that Americans are accustomed to seeing. She isn't emaciated, like those living in squalid conditions in famine-stricken countries, but she is underweight and malnourished, often fed chips and sugary drinks instead of milk and formula...
... poor diets lacking in fruits and vegetables, in children who are fed fatty, cheap foods like hot dogs or ramen noodles...
... Even before the economy tanked, some 36 million adults and children struggled with hunger in 2007...
... She doesn't pity herself, not when she gives her kids hot-dogs because that's all she can afford, not each and every day that she goes without breakfast. Not on this day, when she has yet to put a single morsel in her mouth. Years ago, when the hunger was almost too much to bear, she learned a trick: She'd flip through takeout menus to look at pictures of the food and, eventually, just looking was enough to diminish her cravings.
... one of her 2-year-old, his arm outstretched, asking her welfare case officer for something to eat...
... Foodstuff hidden behind piles of clothes so it's not eaten too fast....
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LIKE not live, sorry. Didn’t see it until I hit enter
I often wonder why would you have kids if you can’t even take care of yourself? It makes no sense! Always with a hand out waiting for a handout.....
Absolute BS. You can feed kids a healthy meal for less than hot dogs would cost. Buy a bag of dried black beans and a bag of rice, cheaper than hot dogs, much more nutritious. Some fruits and veggies are expensive, so you buy the ones that aren't, or buy a bag of frozen veggies, just as nutritious as fresh for the most part. We eat quite often for $5.00 per meal total, not because we have to, just because we can.
Good dish for around $5...some bulk sausage (we use turkey sausage but you don't need a lot, so you can use one pkg for more than one dish), a bag of lentils, an onion, seasonings, then add some frozen spinach, seasonings, serve over rice. Enough to feed 5 or 6 people, and nutritious as well. If you have cheese or mushrooms they add a nice flavor to the mix.
Sausage (1/2 package)...$2.50
Dried Lentils......80
onion (probably less if you buy them in a bag........50
spinach (bag of frozen)....1.00
rice (also cost of this is probably less).........50
This is where that rich woman coming in could really help them. Have a food nutritionist come in and show them how to use basic staples like dried beans and lentils to make meals last longer.
A lot of it is simply lack of education. They grab the prepared food junk like hot dogs on food stamps because it’s easier, yet because these foods are processed they cost more, so their food stamps don’t last till the end of the month.
With all the millions that have been poured into this project; why do we have people like this?
“You are both right. There are tons of things people can do with cheap staples. For whatever reason, these people just don’t want to do that.”
Scrambled eggs with a little ham & cheese, refried rice, creamed chipped beef on toast, soup beans with a hambone & cornbread...
Now I’m getting hungry....
Don't forget the cream cheese!
Soupbeans:
1 hambone
Dry navy beans, soaked overnight
1 onion
1 bayleaf
salt & pepper
2 boxes jiffy cornbread mix
2 eggs
2/3 cup milk
Serves at least 8. My family goes wild.
ALL OF THEM? AND YOU KNOW THIS FOR CERTAIN?
You left out the cadillac....where's the Cadillac in your picture?????
But beans and rice do make a complete protein, have less fat and salt and are as cheap or cheaper.
Poverty won.....
No food but got a cell phone ?
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The text message arrives just after 9 in the morning from Barbie Izquierdo, 21 years old, a mother of two.
“Im at salvation army. i would like u 2 c this. i’ve been here since 8.”
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GIVE ME A BREAK!!!
We spend billions to solve social problems if only the same money was used to support and encourage strong families.
I totally agree! Did you catch this part from the article?
So when she learned she'd won a $100,000 award in late 2007, she ignored suggestions that she take a vacation and instead started work on "Witnesses to Hunger." She purchased digital cameras and distributed fliers to some of the mothers who had been interviewed over the years.
Her hoity-toity friends suggested she take a vacation instead of help the allegedly hungry...and instead she bought them digital cameras. She could have fed a lot of people with just a small portion of that $100,000.
Have you heard about this "Cooking with Clara" show on You Tube? It's this woman who lived during the depression cooking the food they ate back then and sharing stories. I'm sure Clara would have shown these ladies how to cook for a lot less then $100,000.
'Great Depression Cooking With Clara' videos are a YouTube sensation
Chicken hearts, livers, and gizzards fried sauted with onions, tuna melts, egg sandwiches, spaghetti with meat sauce, stuffed peppers, the list goes on. For the rice and bean folks, huevos rancheros.
And don't forget the hot dogs!
LOL!! I didn’t have lentils until just a few years ago and they are soooo good! The Joy of Cooking has a recipe for lentil soup that is huge, tasty, and cheap.
Thanks for the link. I love the older generations. We can learn so much from them.
I'd like to know the NAME of that CLINIC.....
www.hillbillyhousewife.com, all kinds of ways to make cheap, nutritional meals.
Me too. I loved hearing my grandma’s stories about the depression. I know that sounds weird. LOL I think she filtered them for our little ears and made them sound not so bad, even though I know they had nothing. Heck, AFTER the depression they didn’t have much.
I liked my other great-grandparents coming to America stories, too. Whenever I see those old-timey movies of the people coming into Ellis Island waving and smiling despite the really tough journey, I think of them. Now I’m getting teary. LOL
I’ll have to try them. I’ve never cooked with lentils before.
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