"Gone are the occasional treats of shrimp or crabmeat"

The horror.

By mid-month, Bean is often reduced to eating canned ravioli...

Ravioli is not cheap

On Food Stamps and Still Hungry?

Whenever I see someone paying with food stamps at the grocery store, the purchaser rarely looks anything even remotely resembling hungry.

You guys are completely missing the point. These poor individuals have had to cut back on necessities, such as Ben & Jerry's ice cream, prepackaged dinners, and chips and soda. Have some compassion -- they might have to start shopping store brands!

svap said:By mid-month, Bean is often reduced to eating canned ravioli...

Ravioli is not cheap

The canned stuff from Chef Boyardee and stuff is pretty cheap, like a buck a can, I used to eat that for quick meals myself heh.

Maybe instead of depending on food stamps and a food bank, they should buy a newspaper for the coupons. Even better yet, use the libraries computer to check out the latest CVS coupon/reward bucks dealios. It seems that the ones who use the food stamps usually buy the expensive junk food to fill their carts. You can fill a cart with food for less than $100 with coupons or get 8 bags of groceries for less than $20 at the local produce markets.

In order to receive food stamps, there should be some sort of required reading or 2 hour class. Shopping 101, How to cook my own food, Coupons - what are they?

If only the government followed such advice ---
"Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime."

~miser

workindev said:You guys are completely missing the point. These poor individuals have had to cut back on necessities, such as Ben & Jerry's ice cream, prepackaged dinners, and chips and soda. Have some compassion -- they might have to start shopping store brands!:Q

God, I WISH the gov't would make them buy store brands with their foodstamps/WIC. I have been buying store brand formula for my last 3 kids, it really burns my a** to see the chick in front of me turning in her WIC checks for brand name,w hich easily costs double the money. Formula is gov't regulated, store brand or not, not like its worse quality. Welfare system is SO out of whack (like you didn't know that already)

And yeah, we manage to feed our family of 7 for $450 a month or less (granted 2 of them are infants and fairly cheap to feed), what the heck are these people buying. They should make them take a bargain shopping course before doling out the food stamps...People not getting assistance are getting creative with cutting the food budget, those on assis. should have to do the same. No crabmeat or shrimp....for the love.....

amk1976 said:workindev said:You guys are completely missing the point. These poor individuals have had to cut back on necessities, such as Ben & Jerry's ice cream, prepackaged dinners, and chips and soda. Have some compassion -- they might have to start shopping store brands!:Q

God, I WISH the gov't would make them buy store brands with their foodstamps/WIC. I have been buying store brand formula for my last 3 kids, it really burns my a** to see the chick in front of me turning in her WIC checks for brand name,w hich easily costs double the money. Formula is gov't regulated, store brand or not, not like its worse quality. Welfare system is SO out of whack (like you didn't know that already)

And yeah, we manage to feed our family of 7 for $450 a month or less, what the heck are these people buying. They should make them take a bargain shopping course before doling out the food stamps...People not getting assistance are getting creative with cutting the food budget, those on assis. should have to do the same. No crabmeat or shrimp....for the love.....

Moral hazard. Why conserve when it's free?

Miser said:"Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime."I always thought it was, "Teach a man to fish, and he'll bore you with fishing stories for a lifetime.