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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 3:05 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Posted on 6/19/24 at 3:05 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Unhappy to see the big jump for each additional family member. We should not have any policies encouraging more children to people who can’t take care of them.
Terrible for a child to be created to bump up the budget.
Terrible for a child to be created to bump up the budget.
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Posted on 6/19/24 at 3:29 pm to AwgustaDawg
quote:
A bunch of rice and chicken thighs and some green stuff will make a lot of meals for $766. Not overly healthy but better than fast food and most restaurant meals.
if SNAP recipients ate chicken thighs, rice, and greens for dinner 5 nights a week, obesity in America would plummet in months
Posted on 6/19/24 at 4:11 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
My son has a friend who gives his card to the weed dealer every month in exchange for an ounce. It's nice to know our tax dollars are helping folks out. (I don't know how to insert a mad emoji so just imagine one here)
Posted on 6/19/24 at 5:18 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Until my wife can return to being ridiculously underpaid for teaching after having twin boys, we're getting EBT. We use a lot of chicken, pork, veggie bags, and rice. We spend a bit on something more like steaks for me and her once, a good lasagna, and beef. We dont do soda or snacks other than crackers or fruit and only buy sweets for birthdays and holidays. We have 5 kids and this is completely sustainable. Excess goes to dry foods for the economic collapse following the election.
This post was edited on 6/19/24 at 5:21 pm
Posted on 6/19/24 at 5:26 pm to fr33manator
Too damn many.
This post was edited on 6/19/24 at 5:36 pm
Posted on 6/19/24 at 5:45 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Off-Brand Cheerios for breakfast, maybe eggs and bacon and biscuits/grits/toast on weekends.
Free school lunch or PBJ on weekends/summers.
Rice/Beans/Pasta with whatever protein you could find on sale that week or you can find from a food pantry (or catch/kill if you're outdoorsy).
Milk at meals, water from tap for every other thirst.
And you sit down at the table and you thank God, out loud, in prayer, for what you have on the table in front of you, before each and every meal.
Special occasion? Bake a cake, don't buy it from the bakery. Maybe splurge for Pizza Night once a month.
The only starving kids in this country are being abused by their guardians who are neglectful drug addicts and/or mentally ill. It's not from a lack of funding food stamps.
Being poor sucks, I've been there and I've seen it around me. But being poor is supposed to suck. If benefits keep going up and up and up, I myself consider my options. Why bust my arse to pay for myself and all these other people when I can just drop out and collect. I am a simple man of simple tastes.
Free school lunch or PBJ on weekends/summers.
Rice/Beans/Pasta with whatever protein you could find on sale that week or you can find from a food pantry (or catch/kill if you're outdoorsy).
Milk at meals, water from tap for every other thirst.
And you sit down at the table and you thank God, out loud, in prayer, for what you have on the table in front of you, before each and every meal.
Special occasion? Bake a cake, don't buy it from the bakery. Maybe splurge for Pizza Night once a month.
The only starving kids in this country are being abused by their guardians who are neglectful drug addicts and/or mentally ill. It's not from a lack of funding food stamps.
Being poor sucks, I've been there and I've seen it around me. But being poor is supposed to suck. If benefits keep going up and up and up, I myself consider my options. Why bust my arse to pay for myself and all these other people when I can just drop out and collect. I am a simple man of simple tastes.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 5:51 pm to POTUS2024
Oh really? How about we use your logic this way. A family of 4 only gets $6/day each for a car. How could they possibly pay a car note on that? Well…they could pay a note of $745/month all by sitting on their arse.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 5:52 pm to L1C4
quote:
Now they can be used to buy soda and candy.
good luck getting RINOs to stop accepting bribes from lobbyists to change anything. Liberals will say we are trying to deprive already poor people from life's simple pleasures.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 5:53 pm to WinnPtiger
SNAP is a farm subsidy with extra steps.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 5:58 pm to Bourbon Bebe
quote:yeah, this doesn’t happen
Some will go to super nice restaurants and not leave tips after paying with food stamps
In Louisiana, food stamps have never been approved for restaurants- fast food or sit down. Hot food can be obtained from stores that sell food eligible for food stamps when there isn’t an emergency.
This post was edited on 6/19/24 at 6:01 pm
Posted on 6/19/24 at 6:12 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
I know I spend way over $291 per month at the grocery*. It would be tight if you like quality meat and fresh produce, but I could probably do it if I was carefull.
* I seriously comingle my grocery/booze expenses.
* I seriously comingle my grocery/booze expenses.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 6:19 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
You could make that happen but you would have to be smart about it
Posted on 6/19/24 at 6:21 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Definitely not, especially with the increase in food prices. I'd be all in favor of increasing snap allowances while at the same time restricting what they can be used on, no processed foods for instance.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 6:38 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Your tax dollars at work giving people free shite.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 6:39 pm to DavidTheGnome
She got Louisiana purchase card!!!
This post was edited on 6/19/24 at 6:41 pm
Posted on 6/19/24 at 7:51 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
100%! I just did it for fun on Wal-Mart. Gave myself a budget of $178, which is 25% of the monthly average allotment for 4 people.
[b]Breakfast options:
Honey Nut Cheerios
24 oz. Quaker grits
Gallon of Kleinpeter milk
18 ct. GV eggs
Jimmy Dean sausage
Jimmy Dean applewood bacon
Fruit (see below)
Lunch options:
1 loaf of bread
1 jar Jif PB
1 jar of GV jelly
4 pack GV white tuna
Fruit (see below)
Dinner #1:
1 pound ground meat
1 jar spaghetti sauce
16 oz. spaghetti noodles
4 broccoli crowns
6 oz. GV parmesan cheese
Sister Shubert's frozen Parker House rolls
Dinner #2:
2 lbs boneless chicken breast
1 onion, 1, orange bell pepper, 1 green bell pepper
1 pack McCormick Fajita seasoning
1 pack Mission tortillas
1 jar GV salsa
8 oz GV cheddar cheese
4 ears of fresh corn on the cob
Dinner #3:
2 frozen pizzas
GV family size Caesar salad
Fresh fruit (see below)
Dinner #4:
2 lbs Pork Tenderloins
McCormick marinade packet
4 Russett potatoes (1# of butter and sour cream purchased for this)
Pack fresh asparagus
Jiffy corn muffin mix
Dinner #5:
4 lbs boneless chicken thighs
Lawry's teriyaki sauce
rice (2 lb bag purchased)
20 oz. GV stir fry vegetables
Dinner #6:
2 lbs boneless chicken breast
1 jar GV alfredo sauce
16 oz. spaghetti noodles
2 cans GV sweet peas
Dinner #7:
leftovers
Extra fruit/vegetables:
1 small watermelon
1 cantaloupe
1 pineapple
4 bananas
2.25 lbs red grapes
4 gala apples
Other snacks:
Betty Crocker choco. chip cookie mix
Act II microwave popcorn 3-pack
Baby carrots/celery/cherry tomatoes w/ Ranch dressing
Grand total: $178.65
This is not accounting for any coupons or sales. I just went to WM for grocery pickup. Also, this includes an entire pound of butter, 2 pounds of rice, etc. It can totally be done!
[b]Breakfast options:
Honey Nut Cheerios
24 oz. Quaker grits
Gallon of Kleinpeter milk
18 ct. GV eggs
Jimmy Dean sausage
Jimmy Dean applewood bacon
Fruit (see below)
Lunch options:
1 loaf of bread
1 jar Jif PB
1 jar of GV jelly
4 pack GV white tuna
Fruit (see below)
Dinner #1:
1 pound ground meat
1 jar spaghetti sauce
16 oz. spaghetti noodles
4 broccoli crowns
6 oz. GV parmesan cheese
Sister Shubert's frozen Parker House rolls
Dinner #2:
2 lbs boneless chicken breast
1 onion, 1, orange bell pepper, 1 green bell pepper
1 pack McCormick Fajita seasoning
1 pack Mission tortillas
1 jar GV salsa
8 oz GV cheddar cheese
4 ears of fresh corn on the cob
Dinner #3:
2 frozen pizzas
GV family size Caesar salad
Fresh fruit (see below)
Dinner #4:
2 lbs Pork Tenderloins
McCormick marinade packet
4 Russett potatoes (1# of butter and sour cream purchased for this)
Pack fresh asparagus
Jiffy corn muffin mix
Dinner #5:
4 lbs boneless chicken thighs
Lawry's teriyaki sauce
rice (2 lb bag purchased)
20 oz. GV stir fry vegetables
Dinner #6:
2 lbs boneless chicken breast
1 jar GV alfredo sauce
16 oz. spaghetti noodles
2 cans GV sweet peas
Dinner #7:
leftovers
Extra fruit/vegetables:
1 small watermelon
1 cantaloupe
1 pineapple
4 bananas
2.25 lbs red grapes
4 gala apples
Other snacks:
Betty Crocker choco. chip cookie mix
Act II microwave popcorn 3-pack
Baby carrots/celery/cherry tomatoes w/ Ranch dressing
Grand total: $178.65
This is not accounting for any coupons or sales. I just went to WM for grocery pickup. Also, this includes an entire pound of butter, 2 pounds of rice, etc. It can totally be done!
Posted on 6/19/24 at 7:53 pm to HouseMom
It can be done - we are a family of 8 and I don’t spend $1100 on groceries and we rarely eat out
Posted on 6/19/24 at 7:55 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
They eat better than me now :(
Posted on 6/19/24 at 7:55 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
I live on a working cattle farm, grow a garden, and love to fish. I can easily buy the rest of what my family needs on the food stamp allowance.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 8:00 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:
DavidTheGnome
This guy.
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