Posted on 06/10/2014 12:04:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No prepared frozen meals....good one. Nothing wrong with real food like rice, flour and pasta. I could even go for spaghetti sauce in a jar. Spices, even.
The people’s representatives could change this, but they won’t.
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“Any program that gives you money to buy canned chili but
prohibits you from buying toilet paper is fatally flawed.”
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The prepared frozen meals is the thing that gets me the most.
Back when I was on food stamps, I went grocery shopping with a woman down the street who was also on them (my car was out of service and I needed the ride.) Other than cereal and bread, nearly everything she bought came out of the frozen food section — and none of it was frozen veggies - including 5 family size frozen lasagnas. I got all the ingredients to make lasagna, spent less and got twice as many meals for the same number of people as she did - and yet she refused every one of my offers to teach her to cook.
I think a home economics course should be a requirement for anyone seeking food stamps, to include budgeting and cooking. When I mentioned it the social worker said while she agreed with me, it couldn’t be done because it would be “too demeaning” and she would deny ever having said any such thing!
This is one reason why in the U.S., obesity is correlated to lack of income - instead of the historical inverse where you have to be rich to afford a lot of calories and not burn them off.
Thanks for the ping!
I remember one summer, when I was a kid, going around with a group of kids asking our neighbors if they had any extra food stamps. We used those food stamps to get sodas. We drank or discarded the sodas (I can't actually drink them, so I mostly poured them out) and took the bottles back for the deposits. Since the deposits were returned in cash even when the sodas were purchased with food stamps, that gave us lots of dimes to play pin-ball with.
How many cans of pop would one have to buy, to purchase a bottle of booze ?
Ban sugar.
Ban food.
Yeah actually if I was in charge NO prepared foods would be eligible.
Staples only meat,fish, cheese, grains, fruits and vegetables. You want anything else, buy it on your own dime.
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