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"As a lad, I shamefully took food stamps (during a few hard months of my many years as a hardcore liberal) and remember being amazed at how much food you could get for a few bucks if you concentrated on staple foods, which are really cheap. "

Were you ashamed because you took charity, or because you knew you could do better and just didn't?

My daughter and her husband had food stamps for a year or so, when they absolutely had to have them. Then my son-in-law worked three jobs at once for a while and got them past the rough spot. (My daughter didn't work much at that time because she had, IMO, more important duties - staying home and raising their baby.)

I see no shame in food stamps if someone really needs them, for a short period. It's the people that stay on them for generations that should be ashamed.

Also, my daughter said the same you did. She had no problems at all feeding the three of them with their food stamp amount. The basic staples worked just fine for them, too.