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Posted on 08/07/2025 6:35:28 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this week that six additional states had been granted waivers allowing them to prohibit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits from being used on certain processed foods and drinks.
Kennedy joined U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Monday as Rollins signed the six new waivers, which allow the states to amend what the food assistance benefits -- colloquially referred to as food stamps -- can be used for at the grocery store.
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When Junk Food is Outlawed, only Outlaws will have Junk Food?
I’m glad to see at least SOME restrictions of Taxpayer Dollars, but this will just create an underground market for Junk Food along with those for booze and tobacco.
A much better idea would be a pre-loaded SNAP card for SPECIFIC, nutritious items and some recipes to use said items, same as the WIC program for poor babies and little kids. It could be customized by location.
But, no one cooks for themselves anyway so, MANDATORY Home Ec Classes for all SNAP recipients?
Lots of ways to tackle this issue. It’s ‘SUPPLEMENTAL Nutritional Assistance Program.’ Mother Government is just paying for SOME of your food for the month, not ALL of it. See your local Church (the Methodists will feed ANYONE!) or Food Pantry.
I foresee people selling Twinkie “onesies” on street corners.
The pusher will have Twinkies, Ho Hos , Ding Dongs and Snoballs
42.1 million people per month getting food stamps and we’ve got 35 to 50 million illegal aliens doing the jobs so-called “americans” don’t want to do. One of the reasons we have jobs is so the taxpayers don’t have to buy food for freeloaders. GET A JOB!
When I was a kid, one of the Neighborhood Dads was a Hostess Rep. Once in a great while he'd let us kids raid his truck at the end of the day. It was even more fun than when the Ice Cream Truck came around! ;)
The pusher will have Twinkies, Ho Hos , Ding Dongs and Snoballs
Well don't forget "snocaps", a nostalgia trip from the 60's.
Looks like some are living large at taxpayer expense:
Also loved the old hostess Ding Dongs that came wrapped in foil:
Such a rare treat for us kids, like a forbidden fruit....
Cutting out junk food isn’t going to stop them selling their food stamps for 50 cents on the dollar and using that cash to buy candy and cokes. Been doing that for decades and generations. The government needs to slash and slash and slash the amount of food stamps.
Why doesn’t SNAP deduct the free 360 breakfasts and lunches and sometimes weekend food boxes from schools and the free summer lunch program for ages 0-21? Then there are the food pantries, churches and charities which is double, triple dipping. Then there’s the SNAP free phones, free internet, discounted utilities, etc. All that needs to be decapitated.
I’ve said a millions times our food budget is $112/mo/person which is 1/3 what the gov gives out in food stamps!!! We eat just fine. None of that is charity or assistance but working income. We eat so fine I made a mini version of the Inaugural Congressional Luncheon, no steak or truffles, but from scratch from what we had at home. Yo, WH kitchen, imitation crabcakes with 2 scratch sauces, made a spicy marinate for the vegs, potatoes au gratin (no box) and frozen homemade yogurt with sauteed apples and scratch caramel for $3 a plate. The next day all the vegs and sauces turned into $0.
Not just that on our budget but recently I’ve upped the stakes to frugal fine dining - - still, no steak or truffles but as much homemade as possible. Silly me, we could have been eating high off the hog if I hadn’t been conditioned to believe it was somehow special food. It isn’t. It is the same stuff we all eat just fancied up. Those British teas with finger sandwiches are, get this, merely chicken salad, egg salad, cucumbers and ham and cheese, LOL! Make some fancy homemade bread with nuts, dried fruit, drained veg liquid and seasonings from the kitchen cabinet. Scones is a turn on biscuits. Fancy sweets are just adding decorations to the usual cake bites and candy being sold for <>$100.
How can expensive restaurants sell steak fries (hellooo, nothing but the sous chef got tired of slicing thin french fries) for $12 when a potato costs 25 cents? Wait until McD’s finds out if they went with 1/3 lb patties and “heritage” (not heirloom) tomatoes, they could charge $40 to fools with money to throw away.
They don’t know what a food desert is. Geez, hop a city bus or steal a car to drive a mile to the next store.
Rural folk have always driven miles and miles to do their shopping. We drove a little over an hour when I was a kid. Today, we still drive miles and miles.
I loved that pink Snoball too. I was lucky my Grandma always kept them around for me.
Dollar Tree seems to be the popular “grocery” in many areas. Woo hoo, pay more for less product and it is crap food. I tried to make a July 4th menu for someone with only $10 but couldn’t do it. DT’s hot dogs were only 10 oz and $1.25 and no dried beans so only higher priced canned beans that served less and chips for waaay too much and DT doesn’t have fresh produce.
Pricing out a regular grocery store, $10 bought a 12 oz 99 cent package of hot dogs, bread instead of buns (more slices so leftovers), a bag of potatoes to make fries/chips/salad and leftovers, onion, tomato, bag of dried beans and something else possibly carrots for carrot sticks so might have leftovers. But noooo, the rest of da ‘hood shops at these dollar stores so they had to too.
Looks like this is all most of the states are restricting.
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Restrictions only apply to a handful of Red states. All others have a free hand.
Prices will remain just the same as only applies to a handful of Red States, per supplied link
High five, Iowa. That’s how food stamps were long, long ago. But they were still getting too much aid and were selling their food stamps for 50 cents on the dollar to buy junk food, booze and cigs and whatever. They also got commodities so that eased up on using food stamps so more to sell.
“Junk” = what my prissy aunt disapproves of.
Yeah, let’s go that route. Kinda like letting commie trash decide what is hate speech and misinformation. Let’s let bureaucrats decide what is best for us.
Yeah, let’s do that.
Morons.
Some states are wising up but not enough and not quick enough.
However, it is easy enough to add 6 more spoons of sugar to the ice tea. Easy enough to buy a still legal cake mix and a tub of frosting. Of course, that takes brain power to read the pictures on the cake box. Can’t imagine why cake mixes have pictures. Remember when cakes called for only 1-2 eggs? Proof eggs are smaller and maybe not real ingredients in the smaller mix.
Last time I had Skittles I found them to be hard to chew, my jaw got tired after normal sized bag.
I learned to cook from scratch when I realized there would be no 7th birthday cake unless I made it. I was cooking, sewing my own clothes and doing the chores so by the time home ec. came along in school, I refused to take it. After much school board debate and pearl clutching, they let me in Ag class instead. Oh no, had to add a girl’s restroom to the new Ag building plans.
Notice SNAP isn’t deducting the 360 free school breakfasts, lunches and sometimes weekend food boxes or the summer free lunches for ages 0-21. Why, if they’re all starving, do they sell their food stamps at half face value? Why can I feed this family on 1/3 what they get? Why did the local welfare office secretary quit after calculating her working income vs. their freebies? Why does a food program giveaway free phones, free internet, discounted utilities, free event tickets, etc.?
Don’t search youtube for food panty hauls unless you take your bp meds first. Hate that word, hauls. They whine and carry on about what they get. Oh, it isn’t kosher so gripe while tossing it into the trash instead of not taking it in the first place or giving it to the neighbors. Oh, how dare they give them pistachios that still have a shell partially on them. Or they laugh at getting their multiple food pantries during the week so they can spend their food stamps on seafood feasts. Yeah, that grocery receipt might be from those feasts.
Excellent post.
I worked with an after school program that was extended during the summer to 7 am - 7 pm. The kids got free breakfast, lunch and were sent home with backpacks filled with food for the weekend. Almost alll were on SNAP, Section 8 and medicaid.
I, too, wondered where the money went from their kids not costing the parents for food.
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