[tbw2]

Instead of rewarding SNAP users for healthy choices, limit their purchases to healthy approved items like WIC does. You can get the food for free, but it is rice, beans, cheese, milk, juice, fruits, vegetables, potatoes. But it won’t let you buy soda, Little Debbie, ice cream, junk food.
This would have several effects almost immediately:
* Millions of people living on SNAP would desperately seek sources of income so they can buy the foods they want
* SNAP fraud would go down, because those who can buy their own food will do so because they can’t buy it with SNAP
* The surest correlation to obesity is poverty. Limiting selections to healthy choices, the national BMI will go down, and over time, national health costs related to diabetes and joint problems made worse by obesity.
* Freedom of the non-dependent public isn’t impacted. But greater purchase volume of healthy foods stimulates their production and sales, thus lowering costs.

[cva66snipe]

I'm not for FS recipients stuffing shopping carts with junk food. But there is also reality. Healthy food especially fresh unprocessed meats, fruits, and veggies, cost more. There is an old saying our parents knew real well. Living high on the hog. Meaning a person able to afford the healthier more choice cuts of meat rather than the other parts. My dad in the 1930's grew up on things like bologna and back then it was healthy to eat it because it was made from better portions of meat. That has a lot to do with what is going on as well. A Sirloin Tip Roast is obviously more healthier than a hamburger but a hamburger of say 30 years ago was also healthy food because portions of beef now allowed to be used were used for dog and cat food instead. Now the cost of either one in fresh meat is through the roof. I am not a FS user I buy with cash.

I know I need to loose about 40 pounds. Paying for the food needed to get me there is another matter as it adds about $100 a month to the bill. Healthy food means Zilch if it lacks taste. You can buy apples for $.99 a pound that are the size of a kids small rubber ball or you can pay $1.99 a pound for ones with taste. Grapes in season this year are at $2 a pound also. Oranges or Clementines are about $6 a bag. You can buy a lot of filling Junk food for that which is what a lot of persons do because it's filling and satisfies taste and appetite. The Wookie is even trying to regulate diet soda. I hate coffee, I can't tolerate juices, Milk though I like it gags me and cost is astronomical, but I drink diet colas with Splenda. Usually 6 cans per day which I don't see any harm in. Now it has zero calories, zero carbs, zero fat, yet the health Nazi's are trying to limit how much diet cola per can or bottle. You can't win with these people.

Tonight I ate about a healthy a meal and well balanced as a person can make. I took some left over lean roast and made beef stew. In reality Chicken nuggets, Fish sticks, hot dogs, etc go further at payday than the so called healthy food choices.

Our food prices are too high mainly die to Wookie administration policies to start with. Open up domestic oil and get Diesel fuel cost below $2.50 a gallon. Lower wheel taxes on trucks. Transportation and shipping cost is at least a third of the total cost on produce and meats. They don't want common sense they want to control people. Wookie could care less if a pound of Ground Round was $4 or $400 because their meals are FREE!!!!