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re: Could you provide healthy meals for your family on the SNAP/Food Stamp allowance?
Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:13 pm to Earnest_P
Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:13 pm to Earnest_P
They should be required to work 40 hours of community service per week at minimum wage and that’s the benefit. Make then earn and stretch it.
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Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:15 pm to Dixie2023
Recipients should get only the basics like it used to be. Get staples instead of a gift card. But nobody wants that except for the taxpayers who fund this mess.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:18 pm to beerJeep
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$300 a month is more than I spend on groceries now. I do eat out more than I should though…..
For how many people? That’s very low or you eat out most of the time
Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:20 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
It's just the wife and I, plus the two cats. I think we could manage alright with almost $600 for groceries. Inflation has fricked grocery costs pretty hard, though.
This post was edited on 6/19/24 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:33 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
If used correctly yes. If used to buy purple drink and hot fries also no.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 1:48 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Family of 8 (2 adults 6 children), for $1200 a month? If we absolutely had to, yes, we could cook beans and rice daily. However, it would be quite difficult to keep the troops from mutinying.
We easily spend $2k a month on food and incidentals (soap, diapers, etc). The kids drink a gallon of milk a day (we don’t buy juice, soft drinks etc.). That $5 is almost half of one meal allotment of $13.33 for the day, gone. For a basic sandwich meal, we use more than a loaf of bread, 1lb of cold cuts, a pack of sliced cheese, and 1-2 bags of chips. That alone is over the $13 allotment. Not including fruit, condiments, etc. It adds up fast.
Unrelated, but if we weren’t mindful and meal plan it would break us. Fast food is a kick in the balls when it can cost $75. We could easily spend $300 a day in restaurants if we didn’t meal plan.
We easily spend $2k a month on food and incidentals (soap, diapers, etc). The kids drink a gallon of milk a day (we don’t buy juice, soft drinks etc.). That $5 is almost half of one meal allotment of $13.33 for the day, gone. For a basic sandwich meal, we use more than a loaf of bread, 1lb of cold cuts, a pack of sliced cheese, and 1-2 bags of chips. That alone is over the $13 allotment. Not including fruit, condiments, etc. It adds up fast.
Unrelated, but if we weren’t mindful and meal plan it would break us. Fast food is a kick in the balls when it can cost $75. We could easily spend $300 a day in restaurants if we didn’t meal plan.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:02 pm to Sev09
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For how many people?
Well, by deducing the amount and the picture in the OP….
Me myself and I.
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That’s very low or you eat out most of the time
60-70 a week on groceries for 1 person is “very low”? I could easily cut that in half if I *really* needed to. Aka was poor.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:19 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
$973 is more than my family of 4 spends at the grocery each month and we eat very healthy
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:20 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Probably not which is why I work rather than wait for the government to pay for my food.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:29 pm to Saint Alfonzo
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Inflation has fricked grocery costs pretty hard, though.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:30 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Sure. My daughter (no pics) wanted to see how little she could spend on food. For a 3 month span she worked out a budget where she was spending $70 a week for all the food, she got it delivered for free from Walmart.
Does not include alcohol (she doesn't drink) and did not cover non food items such as toilet paper and cleaning supplies.
Just food. She said she had plenty of food. She cooks alot and didnt buy any boxed or processed foods. Breakfasts were eggs, bacon and toast. Lunch was usually a sandwich and dinner was meats and vegetables.
She did it after she started keeping up with how much she was spending on restaurants. She is a saver and I couldn't be more proud. After she graduated from Alabama she got a job here in Tuscaloosa. She moved back in with us and saved her money for about 18 months and then bought a house in a great neighborhood for renting later. She has 2 roommates whose rent pays the mortgage and she is saving her money to buy another house to rent.
Does not include alcohol (she doesn't drink) and did not cover non food items such as toilet paper and cleaning supplies.
Just food. She said she had plenty of food. She cooks alot and didnt buy any boxed or processed foods. Breakfasts were eggs, bacon and toast. Lunch was usually a sandwich and dinner was meats and vegetables.
She did it after she started keeping up with how much she was spending on restaurants. She is a saver and I couldn't be more proud. After she graduated from Alabama she got a job here in Tuscaloosa. She moved back in with us and saved her money for about 18 months and then bought a house in a great neighborhood for renting later. She has 2 roommates whose rent pays the mortgage and she is saving her money to buy another house to rent.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:40 pm to L1C4
You can't buy anything hot is the basic rule now. If it's edible and not straight from the "hot bar" you can buy it(candy and soda included)
Sources: Was poor and had food stamps
Sources: Was poor and had food stamps
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:43 pm to POTUS2024
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am 100% certain that no one here would be able to feed a family on the estimated average benefit. For a family of four, it's a bit less than $6/day per person. That's $2/meal. Good luck with that.
You obviously aren’t seeing the correlation between food stamp recipients and obesity.
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The USDA did release a study in 2015 showing that 40 percent of food stamp recipients were obese compared to 32 percent of low-?income individuals not on food stamps. Both adults and children in food stamp families are more obese than other Americans.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:52 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
I could get like 100lbs of boiled crawfish.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:52 pm to alphaandomega
This thread makes me want to buy a 10 pound bag of leg quarters for less than $10 and do some grilling.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:53 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
If you get all the apps sent out by the grocery folks, and shop all meat specials and other food specials you 100% can..It takes a little planning and work, but it is more than doable...The circulars come in your mail each Wednesday for the next week. Look at them sometime...
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:53 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Easily. Chicken and rice and fresh green beans are cheap.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:58 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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Not even taking into consideration that any school aged children get two (and often 3) free meals a day at school,
And a bag of groceries per kid sent home every weekend (at least Alabama free-and-reduced lunch students at Title 1 schools).
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:58 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Very few people get those maximum amounts.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 3:00 pm to Ebrow21
I hope you own property and have a nice garden and put those kids to work, lol. That’s a lot of food per day.
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