[Le Chien Rouge]

Many folks on food stamps have no concept of the following:

1) Coupons
2) Buying on sale
3) Budgeting
4) Substituting hamburger for steak
5) Cooking rather than buying microwavable pre-processed food
6) Eliminating luxuries—soda, ice cream,chips
7) Tupperware for lunch at work rather than McDonalds

I could go on forever...

[Kickass Conservative]

I think it was John Stossel who said “when the food in the supermarket is free, you head straight for the Filet Mignon”.

[mamelukesabre]

I see more EBT cards used in gas stations than at grocery stores. They live on junk food bought at 50% higher prices from a quickie mart. Meanwhile there are hardworking mexicans, southeast asians, and africans working 70+ hours per week and buying staples in bulk from various ethnic markets at very low prices. They eat very very well for not much money.

I’ve been saying for years food stamps need to be limited to what you can buy. I think they should just get the basic staples...beans, rice, milk, eggs, bread, butter, cooking oil, flour, sugar, salt...and not much more than that. Let them learn to cook from scratch.

[beaversmom]

8) No Cigarettes. A neighbor couldn’t afford to send her daughter with us for two hours of fun for $6 bucks, but has money for cigarettes. It’s just disgusting what people’s priorities are.