So what happens when the Federal government can’t issue Nov Food Stamps?

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Anonymous wrote:Spicy Jalapeño Chicken Sausage

$4.29/12 Oz

Gluten Free
Our Spicy Jalapeño Chicken Sausages employ medium-hot jalapeño peppers, rather than the typical Italian seasonings, to produce a fiery bite. Grill them alongside brightly-colored bell peppers and sliced onions, sauté and serve with scrambled eggs & toast, or throw them under the broiler with buttered Brioche Hot Dog Buns for a quick, satisfying meal on a busy weeknight.

https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/spicy-jalapeno-chicken-sausage-028285

Italian Linguine
$0.99/1 Lb
Kosher
Our Italian Linguine is made with one simple ingredient: durum wheat semolina. We don’t believe that a simple macaroni product that’s been produced for centuries should require a laundry list of added ingredients to achieve tasty results. And let’s get one thing clear: Trader Joe’s Italian Linguine is a tasty product. It can be served with just a little olive oil, but becomes especially tasty when traditionally plated with a simple pesto to coat each elliptical noodle as you spin a bit onto your fork. Other common taste-elavating options include using tomato-based sauces or a light sauce with a seafood addition - think salmon, cod, or shrimp. In as little as 7 to 8 minutes of passively boiling pasta, you can have yourself a plate of Italian Linguine noodles, toothsomely al dente, of course, and you’ll be sending your tastebuds on a flavorful flight 6,000 miles across the Atlantic to our favorite boot shaped nation!

https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/italian-linguine-047909

These are the prices at Bailey's Crossroads, Falls Church, VA.

And what is rent, healthcare, gas, insurance, and all the other expenses people earning minimum wage but not being scheduled regular hours are paying?

They are a lot. Nobody has ever said that life on minimum wage is easy. It's soul draining and the income inequality we have in the United States is an indictment of our society..

That being said, cooking pasta with some sauage is easy and cheap. It's also an indictment of our society that we have people so detached from reality that they have comvinced themaelves that sausage costs $10 or that basic cooking requires a Viking range and persian saffron.

You are the one completely detached from reality.

Lots of these people don't have mommies to cook for them. They are senior citizens or the disabled who can't cook a whole recipe but can warm up food.

Ever watched The Wire? You should so it smashes open your ridiculous world view.

You keep doubling and tripling down on the idea that basic cooking is too difficult for normal people. It's ridiculous, deeply patronizing and oddly misogynistic.

But the worst part is that it is obviously projection and shows how clearly out of touch you are. Poor people deserve dignity.

I lived in a co-op building in NYC. One of the elderly neighbors a few floors below was trying to cook a meal, her dress caught on fire, and she burned to death in her kitchen. Kitchen fires are quite common with the elderly.

I now live in DC in a nice rowhouse neighborhood. Within two years, two of the elderly long time homeowners died after falling down the steps in their rowhouses. Old ladies in their 80s who live alone.

Pre-cooked meals are essential for the elderly to maintain their independence and stay out of nursing homes. It's more dignified and much cheaper at a societal level to have precooked meals delivered to elderly than warehouse them in group homes and feed them institutional slop.

Is defending goy slop the new party line?

Also, if elderly people keep dying while living alone, isn’t that an argument for institutionalization? We need to let them eat microwaved burritos so they can tumble down the stairs with dignity in their own homes? Maybe they wouldn’t be so frail if they ate real food?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spicy Jalapeño Chicken Sausage

$4.29/12 Oz

Gluten Free
Our Spicy Jalapeño Chicken Sausages employ medium-hot jalapeño peppers, rather than the typical Italian seasonings, to produce a fiery bite. Grill them alongside brightly-colored bell peppers and sliced onions, sauté and serve with scrambled eggs & toast, or throw them under the broiler with buttered Brioche Hot Dog Buns for a quick, satisfying meal on a busy weeknight.

https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/spicy-jalapeno-chicken-sausage-028285

Italian Linguine
$0.99/1 Lb
Kosher
Our Italian Linguine is made with one simple ingredient: durum wheat semolina. We don’t believe that a simple macaroni product that’s been produced for centuries should require a laundry list of added ingredients to achieve tasty results. And let’s get one thing clear: Trader Joe’s Italian Linguine is a tasty product. It can be served with just a little olive oil, but becomes especially tasty when traditionally plated with a simple pesto to coat each elliptical noodle as you spin a bit onto your fork. Other common taste-elavating options include using tomato-based sauces or a light sauce with a seafood addition - think salmon, cod, or shrimp. In as little as 7 to 8 minutes of passively boiling pasta, you can have yourself a plate of Italian Linguine noodles, toothsomely al dente, of course, and you’ll be sending your tastebuds on a flavorful flight 6,000 miles across the Atlantic to our favorite boot shaped nation!

https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/italian-linguine-047909

These are the prices at Bailey's Crossroads, Falls Church, VA.

And what is rent, healthcare, gas, insurance, and all the other expenses people earning minimum wage but not being scheduled regular hours are paying?

They are a lot. Nobody has ever said that life on minimum wage is easy. It's soul draining and the income inequality we have in the United States is an indictment of our society..

That being said, cooking pasta with some sauage is easy and cheap. It's also an indictment of our society that we have people so detached from reality that they have comvinced themaelves that sausage costs $10 or that basic cooking requires a Viking range and persian saffron.

You are the one completely detached from reality.

Lots of these people don't have mommies to cook for them. They are senior citizens or the disabled who can't cook a whole recipe but can warm up food.

Ever watched The Wire? You should so it smashes open your ridiculous world view.

You keep doubling and tripling down on the idea that basic cooking is too difficult for normal people. It's ridiculous, deeply patronizing and oddly misogynistic.

But the worst part is that it is obviously projection and shows how clearly out of touch you are. Poor people deserve dignity.

Fact: Counties with the highest dependence on food stamps went for Trump. So why don't you ask your fellow MAGAs why they are so lazy and why they can't cook and why they eat prepackaged junk?

I'm not MAGA. Trying to make basic cooking a partisan issue is not only stupid but also self-defeating. As you rightly point out, learned helplessness is a bipartisan issue exacerbated by out of touch upper middle class elites who have either too little or too much compassion for people they've only ever seen on TV. The noble savage trope is not better. You're still calling them a savage.

[Anonymous]

Cooking a roast in the crockpot right now. Carrots, onions, potatoes, and peppers.

Smell it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Spicy Jalapeño Chicken Sausage

$4.29/12 Oz

Gluten Free
Our Spicy Jalapeño Chicken Sausages employ medium-hot jalapeño peppers, rather than the typical Italian seasonings, to produce a fiery bite. Grill them alongside brightly-colored bell peppers and sliced onions, sauté and serve with scrambled eggs & toast, or throw them under the broiler with buttered Brioche Hot Dog Buns for a quick, satisfying meal on a busy weeknight.

https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/spicy-jalapeno-chicken-sausage-028285

Italian Linguine
$0.99/1 Lb
Kosher
Our Italian Linguine is made with one simple ingredient: durum wheat semolina. We don’t believe that a simple macaroni product that’s been produced for centuries should require a laundry list of added ingredients to achieve tasty results. And let’s get one thing clear: Trader Joe’s Italian Linguine is a tasty product. It can be served with just a little olive oil, but becomes especially tasty when traditionally plated with a simple pesto to coat each elliptical noodle as you spin a bit onto your fork. Other common taste-elavating options include using tomato-based sauces or a light sauce with a seafood addition - think salmon, cod, or shrimp. In as little as 7 to 8 minutes of passively boiling pasta, you can have yourself a plate of Italian Linguine noodles, toothsomely al dente, of course, and you’ll be sending your tastebuds on a flavorful flight 6,000 miles across the Atlantic to our favorite boot shaped nation!

https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/italian-linguine-047909

These are the prices at Bailey's Crossroads, Falls Church, VA.

And what is rent, healthcare, gas, insurance, and all the other expenses people earning minimum wage but not being scheduled regular hours are paying?

They are a lot. Nobody has ever said that life on minimum wage is easy. It's soul draining and the income inequality we have in the United States is an indictment of our society..

That being said, cooking pasta with some sauage is easy and cheap. It's also an indictment of our society that we have people so detached from reality that they have comvinced themaelves that sausage costs $10 or that basic cooking requires a Viking range and persian saffron.

You are the one completely detached from reality.

Lots of these people don't have mommies to cook for them. They are senior citizens or the disabled who can't cook a whole recipe but can warm up food.

Ever watched The Wire? You should so it smashes open your ridiculous world view.

You keep doubling and tripling down on the idea that basic cooking is too difficult for normal people. It's ridiculous, deeply patronizing and oddly misogynistic.

But the worst part is that it is obviously projection and shows how clearly out of touch you are. Poor people deserve dignity.

Fact: Counties with the highest dependence on food stamps went for Trump. So why don't you ask your fellow MAGAs why they are so lazy and why they can't cook and why they eat prepackaged junk?

I'm not MAGA. Trying to make basic cooking a partisan issue is not only stupid but also self-defeating. As you rightly point out, learned helplessness is a bipartisan issue exacerbated by out of touch upper middle class elites who have either too little or too much compassion for people they've only ever seen on TV. The noble savage trope is not better. You're still calling them a savage.

Your little meal of cheap pasta and sausage is no better and probably worse than frozen meals bought at a supermarket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Food Stamps (SNAP benefits) can’t be paid out if Congress does not appropriate funds for November.

What will happen if 40+ million people don’t get food stamps about 10 days from now? Total monthly benefits are just under $8 billlion.

I guess a certain group of people won't be able to buy shopping carts full of meats and canned goods with EBT, cart it all back to their own stores and food trucks and resell it for cash?

Yes, not kidding.

[Anonymous]

Where did this idea that sausage is "healthy" come from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where did this idea that sausage is "healthy" come from?

Sausage came up because the same person that says cooking is too difficult claimed it was twice as expensive as it is.

It's just a stand in for protein costs in a simple homemade meal

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Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

[Anonymous]

So anybody has an update?
I am not on Snap, but I am not rich and very frugal spending. Should I start to stock up?
I am single mom with kids, just worry of the social unrest, if people go hungry and in survival mode, they will have nothing to loose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

In the DC metropolitan area Trader Joe's are plentiful while family dollar/dollar general are only in farther out suburbs. Ironically the three dollar stores that I know of are all in strip malls that also have a TJ's.

[Anonymous]

People who voted for Trump die I guess. 🤷‍♀️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

In the DC metropolitan area Trader Joe's are plentiful while family dollar/dollar general are only in farther out suburbs. Ironically the three dollar stores that I know of are all in strip malls that also have a TJ's.

DP.
Stop, … please just stop!
Millions are stressful now whether they will survive in a couple of days,
Its not the time for you to bickering giving the lecture on people you never know on how to eat healthy..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fresh foods are challenging to access in food deserts. A grocery store’s availability in a middle to high socioeconomic location looks quite different than a lower one. Hoping on the bus or train to Trader Joe’s isn’t an option for someone who is already working long days and has a family to care for, so where does one turn? To their local food market or corner store. Not sure if you’ve taken a look at what the family dollar/dollar general is selling, but it’s virtually all processed, but it’s what is available close to home.

In the DC metropolitan area Trader Joe's are plentiful while family dollar/dollar general are only in farther out suburbs. Ironically the three dollar stores that I know of are all in strip malls that also have a TJ's.

This is a reflection of the population of the area more than anything. I know TJ specifically looks at the education level of an area when building. There are several states that don’t have a single TJ. The rent is probably just too expensive to attract Dollar General.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who voted for Trump die I guess. 🤷‍♀️

- meaning you are in favor of eliminating EBT, correct?