I have nothing against food stamp recipients buying hamburger (beef) and tuna (seafood) with their stamps.
Thank you Michelle Obama.
Have you priced out tuna? It’s expensive. The 12 oz store brand canned tuna is $2 here. The real weight is 6 oz of meat after draining out the water (here, kitty kitty!). That works out to $5.33 per pound of canned tuna. I haven’t been able to afford canned tuna for 2 years because it wasn’t on sale last Easter. I bought 21 cans (all they had) which was on sale two weeks ago for $1.33 a 12 oz can (cough, 6 oz meat) and was hoping it’d be on sale again to stock up but no luck. Those 21 cans will have to last until next Easter or longer.
73% hamburger is too expensive, too. It’s close to $4/lb. I’m using the last of some I found on sale that was soon to expire from about a year ago. It’s mostly pork and chicken these days.
Well, seafood is healthy, but if the food stamp recipients are living in Missouri they should be helping the Missouri economy. If they are going to get lobster it should be lobster caught in Missouri by Missouri fishermen.