My stepson was a cashier at a grocery store. He said he could spot a SNAP cart a mile away...lots of soda, cookies, frozen food, etc.
A byproduct of several generations using food stamps has been a ‘dumbing down’ of people, as far as food is concerned. The reason they buy this stuff is they quite simply do not know how to prepare food. And I’m not talking cooking from scratch...I’m talking dried spaghetti or even cooking eggs. I volunteer at a food donation warehouse...and they offer a class in basic cooking, since alt of the people who receive their food don’t know how to prepare it - I’m not making this up.
Anyway, somehow we’ve created a class of people who are practically helpless...so they do what little kids would do, and buy soda and cookies.
And then. We get to pay for their health problems too.
I totally agree as I work in the inner city. The 50+ year-old knows how to cook and eat, the thirty or less does not have a clue. It was always interesting going out in the shop at lunch time. The old guys all had tupperware tubs stuff of leftovers, the young guys eat garbage.
There is a need for training, but the schools are so into testing, commons sense is thrown out the window. I remember shop classes, home economics, typing class, .... there was always a track for success, now the road is lost.
My teacher assistant has a sister w/ 5 kids & no fathers in the picture. It seems like her meals consist of frozen pizza, cheese sticks, pizza rolls, etc. Stuff that normal people buy as a fun treat every so often......
it was not meant as meals.
Needless to say, lots of obesity on our dime. When I bring meals to school many people are shocked that I cook from scratch. How do you get to be an adult & not cook?????
In BJs it's always two carts or more filled with colorful cardboard boxes of snacks. Then it's a parade of hair extensions off to the Navigators and Escalades in the parking lot.