re: What items should be banned from purchase with food stamps?

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pounds of boiled or steamed

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You cannot get cooked/prepared food with EBT unless they make an exception. Most of the time there is no exception to that rule.

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What items should be banned from purchase with food stamps?

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All of them. Ban government handouts

Why did we get away from just mailing them bricks of cheese?

no chips, ice cream, baked goods with sugar, soda, tobacco products and vapes, energy drinks, alcohol.

basic goods used for sustenance should be marked in stores that accept ebt cards and only those items should be allowed for purchase with them. water, milk, bread, veggies, eggs and meat.

Wasn't allowed in Louisiana.

Not everyone on food stamps is on welfare. I have known people who had emergency help.

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Food stamps should only cover beef, poultry, eggs, water, milk, beans, and rice.


Change my mind.

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Preaching to the choir man. It should be based on the food pyramid. Quite a few posters on the first couple pages failed to mention parts of it on their lists.

I'm not going to waste through 10 pages to see if it's been mentioned... I think it should start on limiting canned meals (thinking CHUNKY soup, Chef Boyardee, etc.) (Basic soups bring the obvious exception.) If you need food stamps, I don't think it's too much to ask that your cook your own food with that time you would be at a job/2nd job. Food banks should be where you get most of your canned meals.

I don't have an issue with water (for the reasons mentioned) or a LIMITED amount of soda/drinks. Perhaps with everything computerized there could be a separate allowance for generic drinks.

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again, stop being a lil bhitch over water. It’s a win win, plastic is being recycled, people not eating junk or drinking sodas.

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how have you survived this far in life

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That's not all. Massachusetts' EBT dollars were spent in virtually every state in the U.S., including 165 cities and towns in California and in 293 locations in Florida, the report said. Over a dozen expenditures were also recorded in the Virgin Islands and in Alaska this year, which included a $395 charge in Anchorage. Republican state Sen. Ryan Fattman called the report's findings, "insanity and government at its worst." "This makes no sense. It’s insanity and government at its worst," he told The Herald. "What the hell is someone doing in Hawaii? We need this money to help feed families," he said. "This tells me there’s a major problem with this system."

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This shot right here is why grandma in a Volvo gets the side eye at Wal Mart, whether she deserves it or not. I’ve never been to Hawaii. Or Alaska, or the Virgin Islands. I can’t afford it. But EBT members can? Obviously these vacationers weren’t starving. Fkn cheaters ruin it for the truly needy.

NO junk food. No softdrinks and no stuff like gatoraide.

I really don't care about botteled water. Municipal water is often garbage.