Posted on 11/02/2013 6:10:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Can you feed yourself on $4.50 a day?
That’s the typical daily benefit for someone who gets food stamps. Millions of low-income Americans are dependent on the program, which is called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP, for some if not all of their food money. SNAP benefits have just been reduced slightly, with the sunset of an economic-stimulus addition, and will likely be cut more by Congress before the year is through.
Here in Clark County, Share and the Clark County Food Bank are inviting the community to get a sense of life on that kind of budget by accepting the SNAP Challenge. Participants will commit to eating all meals from that tight SNAP budget of just $4.50 per day.
Visit clarkcountysnapchallenge.org to register for one day, three days or seven days in November. You’ll be provided with guidelines as well as suggested shopping lists and recipes. All participants are encouraged to share their experience on facebook.com/clarkcountysnapchallenge, and to connect with other participants at #CCSNAPchallenge.
At 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 19, SNAP Challenge participants will share their stories at the Vancouver Community Library, 901 C Street. That’s part of a series of activities planned for National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, Nov. 17-23.
The truly needy only require shelter, food, and clothing, and they appreciate every bit of it. The problem is the truly WANTING. They think they're "entitled" to free 2-3 bedroom apartments or free houses, free top of the line food, free clothing from the finest stores at the local mall, free cable and big screen TV, free microwaves with extra features, free air conditioners, free computers with high speed access, and free Cadillac health insurance plans...... because they've made unemployment their lifestyle choice. They vote for politicians who'll steel these things for them so they don't have to get out from under their toasty warm sheets and steel it for themselves.
There's a big difference between the truly needy and the truly wanting. One feels blessed by the kindness of others. The latter feels deprived unless they have twice as much as everyone else - and it's taken for them by force.
I was told earlier this week here that my veteran’s disability payments make me a welfare moocher just like the gal down the block with 8 kids from 6 dads.
A man in my neighborhood got injured, lost his job and then his home. He ended up on the street. He got $200 in food stamps, but had no income whatsoever. He finally qualified for disability. He got $600 per month but they cut his foodstamps down to $40.
I’ve been hearing over $650 a month for a family. Figure a family with kids get free lunch and breakfast at school. Not sure where all that money is spent.
In NY a lady got $800 a month and was lamenting about how a $36 loss would hurt.
Yikes
Nothing better than roasted yorkie...particularly a yorkie that has been on a fat free diet.
My cats and I love yorkie and rice with red curry paste and coconut milk (caution: get rid of pesky little yorkie hairs).
Just kidding. Used to have a yorkie...love the little guys...but they do pee a lot.
One thing that opened my eyes was a young girl who was buying 10 CANS of potatoes in her cartful of junkfood..
While I realize there are some things that might call for that, seeing the rest of her purchase, it was clear she had no idea how to prepare fresh produce.
Actually I think one would have to just buy individual prepared microwavable servings to spend it all.
That would cut down on dishwashing.
And after all dishwashing soap isn’t SNAP eligible- that has to come out of their TANF Payments like booze and cigarettes.
Quick day plan one:
breakfast
1.00 - 3 bananas
1.00 - 6 eggs
lunch and dinner
0.40 - pound of rice
0.40 - pound of beans
0.40 - can of tomato sauce
3.20 used
Remaining 1.30 could be spent on a small tub of butter, a two liter soda or loaf of bread.
Quick day plan two:
breakfast
1.00 - muffin mix or pancake mix, only add water
lunch and dinner
1.00 loaf of bread, may be day old
1.50 small peanut butter
1.00 cheap grape jelly
Total: 4.50 - and you have extra bread, peanut butter and jelly for another day
And when you have a month’s worth, you can buy ten pound bags of apples, potatoes, rice, beans and bananas to feed your family on less than $4.50 per day per person. The USDA actually plans on about $100-$150 per person per month as average grocery spending for lower and middle class folks.
I recently read an article about Monster energy drinks being reclassified from a nutritional supplement to a beverage so that people could use their snap cards to buy them. They said they just wanted to take advantage of this food stamp economy. Giving taxpayers the shaft in the process was not a consideration.
I wouldn’t choose to have one, but he was dumped on my little travelled road along with a box of trash.
I’m just a sucker for hard-luck cases
And SNAP recipients’ benefits aren’t offset for the school breakfasts and lunches their kids get or food they eat at Head Start.
You offered up your life for everyone else living in this country (and maybe even for those living in other countries). I'd say your bill is paid in full.
The welfare queen never did anything at all for anyone - not even for herself!
BIG difference.
My social life took off until a girl friend ran off with my yorkie (and in the end I was quite happy about it...they were a good pair).
For one person that isn’t difficult at all.
I bake dog biscuits for my two, and anytime there’s leftover soup, it’s on their kibble.
I would like to make more of their food; it’s on my Things To Do List! :)
WIC ends when the little darlings start school and begin getting fed there 2 and more often 3 meals a day, 12m out of the year.
I live in the poorest state in the nation. Trust me when I tell you the ones that are NOT scamming the system here are in the minority.
I personally know someone who has been on food stamps, welfare and anything else she can get for 32 years. (she’s currently trying to scam SSDI right now as her youngest is set to ‘age out’ of the golden check age range. She can’t walk across the parking lot to the grocery store without getting out of breath due to her excessive weight so I suspect she’ll get that SSDI check after all) She has six children by several different daddy persons all of whom have been fed and supported their entire lives by the taxpayer. She has FIFTEEN grandchildren, ditto the support. And now, at the tender age of 47, she’s a GREAT grandmother. Do THAT math.
1 matriarch on the dole since about 16, + her six children + her 15 grandchildren (so far), + 1 great grandchild, so far. How many people is that? How many taxpayers does it take to support that little circus parade. No one in that family has EVER gotten up to an alarm clock and gone to work. I suspect if she hadn’t gained 100lbs (easily) after she dropped out of highschool pregnant that she’d have had more than 6 kids. The last time I saw her she was over 300lbs. So fat she couldn’t walk in the store without wheezing and being out of breath.
And before you accuse me of ‘lacking compassion’, allow me to point out that I’ve lived in Africa. Where there are REAL poor people. I contribute to their general support and welfare. There bastardy is frowned on. Fathers support their children because they have to. Never met a 300lb ‘poor’ person in Africa.
With coupons and BOGOs and sales, it isn’t that hard. Won’t be having lobster like that guy in CA, but you sure wouldn’t starve.
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