study shows how 42M recipients spend their food stamps

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Anonymous wrote:I had two egg whites, two pieces of toast with olive oil and some berries for lunch. I am full. It took 10 minutes to make and it was less than $5. I am not on snap. This meal doesn’t cause obesity. America is massively obese. We should not subsidize heart attacks. Anyone claiming different is poorly educated and wrong.

What kind of eggs did you have? Cause let me tell you that good eggs are $$$. Olive oil??! Are you kidding? What kind of toast did you have cause white bread is about as healthy as Doritos. I love that you think you're being healthy. Just because it was not a bag of chips does not mean it's healthy. What poor person is going to have the education of eating a balanced diet - are you Fing kidding me? They got a lot of other things to worry about in their lives I'm sure of it.

The soft bigotry of low expectations is so infantalizing.

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Junk food is easy. It's tasty! I'm UMC and I love junk food too It's awful for you and I know it. I'm highly educated and I still love it! I don't eat it every day and it's certainly not my go-to meal. But I'm just saying - if you are poor and uneducated - you go for what is easiest, tastiest and that's junk food.

Do you know how much damn time it takes to cook a nutritious farm fresh meal? Sorry but fresh ingredients may be healthy but without a way to make it delicious, it's bland as hell.

I find a lot of healthy stuff like coconut water gross. I find a lot of healthy snacks gross. On the other hand, 3/4 of what you eat that isn't considered junk food - like Kraft Mac and Cheese is not as healthy as you people think. REAL healthy meal take time and effort to prepare. A salad is less yummy without yummy salad dressing. Who sits there and just eats raw veggies all day - are you a rabbit or something?

It's more than providing SNAP benefits to the poor. IT's a cultural thing in the US in terms of eating well prepared foods. Let me just say for the record that 1/2 the stuff sold in Safeway/Giant are pretty bad for you even if it's not Doritos. Between the food coloring, preservatives and salt/sugar content, seriously, you all are eating junk food as well. I'd define most of what's served in our K-12 public schools as junk food - we should probably start defining what healthy food is first!

Who is advocating cooking a farm to table fresh meal? This isn’t a Michelin star restaurant. Tax payers are simply tired of subsidizing high fructose corn syrup. Give the poors a sweet potato. So many cry babies in this thread. Fking grow up.

So what do you eat consistently? You really eating sweet potatoes weekly and drinking only juice and water? Cause your subsidizing something unhealthy even if it's not high fructose corn syrup unless you eat like a rabbit or have a personal chef or devote hours to creating healthy meals for EVERY SINGLE MEAL! It's not about eating Michelin. It's about eating stuff that doesn't contain a ton of chemicals. You have no idea how hard that is - you may not have a ton of it but I guarantee that unless you live on a farm or have a ton of money, you are subsidizing junk food just like we all are.

I am advocating snap benefits exclude soft drinks, and a lot of deserts, and chips and a panel of experts or consultants design a menu of foods that don’t cause cancer and childhood obesity.

We pay for this stuff. Why overburden our health care system? You’re not doing anyone any favors defending cola as a snap choice.

And yes, I generally eat chicken, rice, veggies, a lot of peanut butter and cheap veggies and it’s not
weird and it takes the exact same time to make as any food. Not sure why you’re willing to die on this hill.

How many hours do you work/week? What's your HHI? How old are your children? What's your child care coverage?

Yeah, none of that impacts eating healthy. It’s about choices. We should limit those to healthy foods for snap recipients. You can keep yelling, but it’s just the truth.

If I can go on fking YouTube and learn how to make a huge thing of granola for $5 that will feed me for a week at breakfast, so can the person receiving free subsidized internet. Just saying your excuses are perpetual. We subsidize bad choices at present.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had two egg whites, two pieces of toast with olive oil and some berries for lunch. I am full. It took 10 minutes to make and it was less than $5. I am not on snap. This meal doesn’t cause obesity. America is massively obese. We should not subsidize heart attacks. Anyone claiming different is poorly educated and wrong.

What kind of eggs did you have? Cause let me tell you that good eggs are $$$. Olive oil??! Are you kidding? What kind of toast did you have cause white bread is about as healthy as Doritos. I love that you think you're being healthy. Just because it was not a bag of chips does not mean it's healthy. What poor person is going to have the education of eating a balanced diet - are you Fing kidding me? They got a lot of other things to worry about in their lives I'm sure of it.

The soft bigotry of low expectations is so infantalizing.

We should buy them wine and charcuterie once a week so they can experience the healthy ways of their betters. /s

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Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

The reality is that preparing healthy food is time-consuming, especially if someone is juggling two jobs or one job and childcare (e.g., getting kids to and from daycare, school, etc). It is exhausting to stand on your feet all day, then stand to cook as well as be present for your kids.

It effing sucks to not have money. My parents stressed over every meal as there were more mouths than portions. I grew up hating cooking because it = stress. Now I generally love to cook, but it took some years to get to that place.

So many excuses from well meaning, but misguided altruists.

It takes 10 mins to boil an egg. You can eat the white for protein and discard the yolk if you want.

You can eat a banana or fruit immediately.

Pasta takes 7 minutes.

I’m sorry but microwaving a hungry man dinner that’s 55% sodium and other crap hurts our country.

On a similar note, I’m tired of the “healthy at any size” movement.

Snap benefits primarily being used for fking soda and chips is why we are here. It affects everything from early death to military retention rates. Stop making excuses for unhealthy behavior because you feel bad about poor people. You are not helping with encouraging shtty food at every meal.

Before you add fat shaming to this discussion of "healthy' food, please know that global fat increase has been correlated to increased pesticide use.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7983487/

Google for more. But, there's a lot of dissent because big ag loves US tax dollars.

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Junk food is easy. It's tasty! I'm UMC and I love junk food too It's awful for you and I know it. I'm highly educated and I still love it! I don't eat it every day and it's certainly not my go-to meal. But I'm just saying - if you are poor and uneducated - you go for what is easiest, tastiest and that's junk food.

Do you know how much damn time it takes to cook a nutritious farm fresh meal? Sorry but fresh ingredients may be healthy but without a way to make it delicious, it's bland as hell.

I find a lot of healthy stuff like coconut water gross. I find a lot of healthy snacks gross. On the other hand, 3/4 of what you eat that isn't considered junk food - like Kraft Mac and Cheese is not as healthy as you people think. REAL healthy meal take time and effort to prepare. A salad is less yummy without yummy salad dressing. Who sits there and just eats raw veggies all day - are you a rabbit or something?

It's more than providing SNAP benefits to the poor. IT's a cultural thing in the US in terms of eating well prepared foods. Let me just say for the record that 1/2 the stuff sold in Safeway/Giant are pretty bad for you even if it's not Doritos. Between the food coloring, preservatives and salt/sugar content, seriously, you all are eating junk food as well. I'd define most of what's served in our K-12 public schools as junk food - we should probably start defining what healthy food is first!

Who is advocating cooking a farm to table fresh meal? This isn’t a Michelin star restaurant. Tax payers are simply tired of subsidizing high fructose corn syrup. Give the poors a sweet potato. So many cry babies in this thread. Fking grow up.

So what do you eat consistently? You really eating sweet potatoes weekly and drinking only juice and water? Cause your subsidizing something unhealthy even if it's not high fructose corn syrup unless you eat like a rabbit or have a personal chef or devote hours to creating healthy meals for EVERY SINGLE MEAL! It's not about eating Michelin. It's about eating stuff that doesn't contain a ton of chemicals. You have no idea how hard that is - you may not have a ton of it but I guarantee that unless you live on a farm or have a ton of money, you are subsidizing junk food just like we all are.

I am advocating snap benefits exclude soft drinks, and a lot of deserts, and chips and a panel of experts or consultants design a menu of foods that don’t cause cancer and childhood obesity.

We pay for this stuff. Why overburden our health care system? You’re not doing anyone any favors defending cola as a snap choice.

And yes, I generally eat chicken, rice, veggies, a lot of peanut butter and cheap veggies and it’s not
weird and it takes the exact same time to make as any food. Not sure why you’re willing to die on this hill.

How many hours do you work/week? What's your HHI? How old are your children? What's your child care coverage?

Yeah, none of that impacts eating healthy. It’s about choices. We should limit those to healthy foods for snap recipients. You can keep yelling, but it’s just the truth.

If I can go on fking YouTube and learn how to make a huge thing of granola for $5 that will feed me for a week at breakfast, so can the person receiving free subsidized internet. Just saying your excuses are perpetual. We subsidize bad choices at present.

Just another person with no understanding of how poor and working people live. All of that impacts eating healthy. All of it.

LOL on granola - one big sugar carb fest.

You do realize that the majority of folks on SNAP - poor rural whites - often do not have access to an internet because the areas are not wired.

But keep riding your high horse.

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Junk food is easy. It's tasty! I'm UMC and I love junk food too It's awful for you and I know it. I'm highly educated and I still love it! I don't eat it every day and it's certainly not my go-to meal. But I'm just saying - if you are poor and uneducated - you go for what is easiest, tastiest and that's junk food.

Do you know how much damn time it takes to cook a nutritious farm fresh meal? Sorry but fresh ingredients may be healthy but without a way to make it delicious, it's bland as hell.

I find a lot of healthy stuff like coconut water gross. I find a lot of healthy snacks gross. On the other hand, 3/4 of what you eat that isn't considered junk food - like Kraft Mac and Cheese is not as healthy as you people think. REAL healthy meal take time and effort to prepare. A salad is less yummy without yummy salad dressing. Who sits there and just eats raw veggies all day - are you a rabbit or something?

It's more than providing SNAP benefits to the poor. IT's a cultural thing in the US in terms of eating well prepared foods. Let me just say for the record that 1/2 the stuff sold in Safeway/Giant are pretty bad for you even if it's not Doritos. Between the food coloring, preservatives and salt/sugar content, seriously, you all are eating junk food as well. I'd define most of what's served in our K-12 public schools as junk food - we should probably start defining what healthy food is first!

Who is advocating cooking a farm to table fresh meal? This isn’t a Michelin star restaurant. Tax payers are simply tired of subsidizing high fructose corn syrup. Give the poors a sweet potato. So many cry babies in this thread. Fking grow up.

So what do you eat consistently? You really eating sweet potatoes weekly and drinking only juice and water? Cause your subsidizing something unhealthy even if it's not high fructose corn syrup unless you eat like a rabbit or have a personal chef or devote hours to creating healthy meals for EVERY SINGLE MEAL! It's not about eating Michelin. It's about eating stuff that doesn't contain a ton of chemicals. You have no idea how hard that is - you may not have a ton of it but I guarantee that unless you live on a farm or have a ton of money, you are subsidizing junk food just like we all are.

I am advocating snap benefits exclude soft drinks, and a lot of deserts, and chips and a panel of experts or consultants design a menu of foods that don’t cause cancer and childhood obesity.

We pay for this stuff. Why overburden our health care system? You’re not doing anyone any favors defending cola as a snap choice.

And yes, I generally eat chicken, rice, veggies, a lot of peanut butter and cheap veggies and it’s not
weird and it takes the exact same time to make as any food. Not sure why you’re willing to die on this hill.

How many hours do you work/week? What's your HHI? How old are your children? What's your child care coverage?

Yeah, none of that impacts eating healthy. It’s about choices. We should limit those to healthy foods for snap recipients. You can keep yelling, but it’s just the truth.

If I can go on fking YouTube and learn how to make a huge thing of granola for $5 that will feed me for a week at breakfast, so can the person receiving free subsidized internet. Just saying your excuses are perpetual. We subsidize bad choices at present.

Just another person with no understanding of how poor and working people live. All of that impacts eating healthy. All of it.

LOL on granola - one big sugar carb fest.

You do realize that the majority of folks on SNAP - poor rural whites - often do not have access to an internet because the areas are not wired.

But keep riding your high horse.

Granola can easily be made with no sugar.

As for carbs, you sort of need them to survive. Complex carbs that is.

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Junk food is easy. It's tasty! I'm UMC and I love junk food too It's awful for you and I know it. I'm highly educated and I still love it! I don't eat it every day and it's certainly not my go-to meal. But I'm just saying - if you are poor and uneducated - you go for what is easiest, tastiest and that's junk food.

Do you know how much damn time it takes to cook a nutritious farm fresh meal? Sorry but fresh ingredients may be healthy but without a way to make it delicious, it's bland as hell.

I find a lot of healthy stuff like coconut water gross. I find a lot of healthy snacks gross. On the other hand, 3/4 of what you eat that isn't considered junk food - like Kraft Mac and Cheese is not as healthy as you people think. REAL healthy meal take time and effort to prepare. A salad is less yummy without yummy salad dressing. Who sits there and just eats raw veggies all day - are you a rabbit or something?

It's more than providing SNAP benefits to the poor. IT's a cultural thing in the US in terms of eating well prepared foods. Let me just say for the record that 1/2 the stuff sold in Safeway/Giant are pretty bad for you even if it's not Doritos. Between the food coloring, preservatives and salt/sugar content, seriously, you all are eating junk food as well. I'd define most of what's served in our K-12 public schools as junk food - we should probably start defining what healthy food is first!

Who is advocating cooking a farm to table fresh meal? This isn’t a Michelin star restaurant. Tax payers are simply tired of subsidizing high fructose corn syrup. Give the poors a sweet potato. So many cry babies in this thread. Fking grow up.

So what do you eat consistently? You really eating sweet potatoes weekly and drinking only juice and water? Cause your subsidizing something unhealthy even if it's not high fructose corn syrup unless you eat like a rabbit or have a personal chef or devote hours to creating healthy meals for EVERY SINGLE MEAL! It's not about eating Michelin. It's about eating stuff that doesn't contain a ton of chemicals. You have no idea how hard that is - you may not have a ton of it but I guarantee that unless you live on a farm or have a ton of money, you are subsidizing junk food just like we all are.

I am advocating snap benefits exclude soft drinks, and a lot of deserts, and chips and a panel of experts or consultants design a menu of foods that don’t cause cancer and childhood obesity.

We pay for this stuff. Why overburden our health care system? You’re not doing anyone any favors defending cola as a snap choice.

And yes, I generally eat chicken, rice, veggies, a lot of peanut butter and cheap veggies and it’s not
weird and it takes the exact same time to make as any food. Not sure why you’re willing to die on this hill.

How many hours do you work/week? What's your HHI? How old are your children? What's your child care coverage?

Yeah, none of that impacts eating healthy. It’s about choices. We should limit those to healthy foods for snap recipients. You can keep yelling, but it’s just the truth.

If I can go on fking YouTube and learn how to make a huge thing of granola for $5 that will feed me for a week at breakfast, so can the person receiving free subsidized internet. Just saying your excuses are perpetual. We subsidize bad choices at present.

Just another person with no understanding of how poor and working people live. All of that impacts eating healthy. All of it.

LOL on granola - one big sugar carb fest.

You do realize that the majority of folks on SNAP - poor rural whites - often do not have access to an internet because the areas are not wired.

But keep riding your high horse.

Granola can easily be made with no sugar.

As for carbs, you sort of need them to survive. Complex carbs that is.

I mean this. I made like 4 pounds of it for less than $5. I added a less than 1/5 a cup of honey. It’s heart healthy. I really think we are doing the country a disservice by subsidizing so many unhealthy foods like heart clogging chips and diabetes inducing soda. I don’t know why that’s so controversial. We can get a panel of experts (hopefully excluding too much of the junk food industry) to decide which foods should qualify for food stamps. We’d have better outcomes in society.

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Anonymous wrote:I had two egg whites, two pieces of toast with olive oil and some berries for lunch. I am full. It took 10 minutes to make and it was less than $5. I am not on snap. This meal doesn’t cause obesity. America is massively obese. We should not subsidize heart attacks. Anyone claiming different is poorly educated and wrong.

What kind of eggs did you have? Cause let me tell you that good eggs are $$$. Olive oil??! Are you kidding? What kind of toast did you have cause white bread is about as healthy as Doritos. I love that you think you're being healthy. Just because it was not a bag of chips does not mean it's healthy. What poor person is going to have the education of eating a balanced diet - are you Fing kidding me? They got a lot of other things to worry about in their lives I'm sure of it.

The soft bigotry of low expectations is so infantalizing.

Ah, those compassionate conservatives. Maybe direct your efforts to MAGA, a movement more of a threat to our nation than Doritos.

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Junk food is easy. It's tasty! I'm UMC and I love junk food too It's awful for you and I know it. I'm highly educated and I still love it! I don't eat it every day and it's certainly not my go-to meal. But I'm just saying - if you are poor and uneducated - you go for what is easiest, tastiest and that's junk food.

Do you know how much damn time it takes to cook a nutritious farm fresh meal? Sorry but fresh ingredients may be healthy but without a way to make it delicious, it's bland as hell.

I find a lot of healthy stuff like coconut water gross. I find a lot of healthy snacks gross. On the other hand, 3/4 of what you eat that isn't considered junk food - like Kraft Mac and Cheese is not as healthy as you people think. REAL healthy meal take time and effort to prepare. A salad is less yummy without yummy salad dressing. Who sits there and just eats raw veggies all day - are you a rabbit or something?

It's more than providing SNAP benefits to the poor. IT's a cultural thing in the US in terms of eating well prepared foods. Let me just say for the record that 1/2 the stuff sold in Safeway/Giant are pretty bad for you even if it's not Doritos. Between the food coloring, preservatives and salt/sugar content, seriously, you all are eating junk food as well. I'd define most of what's served in our K-12 public schools as junk food - we should probably start defining what healthy food is first!

Who is advocating cooking a farm to table fresh meal? This isn’t a Michelin star restaurant. Tax payers are simply tired of subsidizing high fructose corn syrup. Give the poors a sweet potato. So many cry babies in this thread. Fking grow up.

So what do you eat consistently? You really eating sweet potatoes weekly and drinking only juice and water? Cause your subsidizing something unhealthy even if it's not high fructose corn syrup unless you eat like a rabbit or have a personal chef or devote hours to creating healthy meals for EVERY SINGLE MEAL! It's not about eating Michelin. It's about eating stuff that doesn't contain a ton of chemicals. You have no idea how hard that is - you may not have a ton of it but I guarantee that unless you live on a farm or have a ton of money, you are subsidizing junk food just like we all are.

I am advocating snap benefits exclude soft drinks, and a lot of deserts, and chips and a panel of experts or consultants design a menu of foods that don’t cause cancer and childhood obesity.

We pay for this stuff. Why overburden our health care system? You’re not doing anyone any favors defending cola as a snap choice.

And yes, I generally eat chicken, rice, veggies, a lot of peanut butter and cheap veggies and it’s not
weird and it takes the exact same time to make as any food. Not sure why you’re willing to die on this hill.

How many hours do you work/week? What's your HHI? How old are your children? What's your child care coverage?

Yeah, none of that impacts eating healthy. It’s about choices. We should limit those to healthy foods for snap recipients. You can keep yelling, but it’s just the truth.

If I can go on fking YouTube and learn how to make a huge thing of granola for $5 that will feed me for a week at breakfast, so can the person receiving free subsidized internet. Just saying your excuses are perpetual. We subsidize bad choices at present.

Just another person with no understanding of how poor and working people live. All of that impacts eating healthy. All of it.

LOL on granola - one big sugar carb fest.

You do realize that the majority of folks on SNAP - poor rural whites - often do not have access to an internet because the areas are not wired.

But keep riding your high horse.

Most of the posters on this board have no idea about the demographics of snap recipients. They are imagining it’s primarily urban people of color.

But no. The primary recipients of government aid of all types is rural white people.

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Junk food is easy. It's tasty! I'm UMC and I love junk food too It's awful for you and I know it. I'm highly educated and I still love it! I don't eat it every day and it's certainly not my go-to meal. But I'm just saying - if you are poor and uneducated - you go for what is easiest, tastiest and that's junk food.

Do you know how much damn time it takes to cook a nutritious farm fresh meal? Sorry but fresh ingredients may be healthy but without a way to make it delicious, it's bland as hell.

I find a lot of healthy stuff like coconut water gross. I find a lot of healthy snacks gross. On the other hand, 3/4 of what you eat that isn't considered junk food - like Kraft Mac and Cheese is not as healthy as you people think. REAL healthy meal take time and effort to prepare. A salad is less yummy without yummy salad dressing. Who sits there and just eats raw veggies all day - are you a rabbit or something?

It's more than providing SNAP benefits to the poor. IT's a cultural thing in the US in terms of eating well prepared foods. Let me just say for the record that 1/2 the stuff sold in Safeway/Giant are pretty bad for you even if it's not Doritos. Between the food coloring, preservatives and salt/sugar content, seriously, you all are eating junk food as well. I'd define most of what's served in our K-12 public schools as junk food - we should probably start defining what healthy food is first!

Who is advocating cooking a farm to table fresh meal? This isn’t a Michelin star restaurant. Tax payers are simply tired of subsidizing high fructose corn syrup. Give the poors a sweet potato. So many cry babies in this thread. Fking grow up.

So what do you eat consistently? You really eating sweet potatoes weekly and drinking only juice and water? Cause your subsidizing something unhealthy even if it's not high fructose corn syrup unless you eat like a rabbit or have a personal chef or devote hours to creating healthy meals for EVERY SINGLE MEAL! It's not about eating Michelin. It's about eating stuff that doesn't contain a ton of chemicals. You have no idea how hard that is - you may not have a ton of it but I guarantee that unless you live on a farm or have a ton of money, you are subsidizing junk food just like we all are.

I am advocating snap benefits exclude soft drinks, and a lot of deserts, and chips and a panel of experts or consultants design a menu of foods that don’t cause cancer and childhood obesity.

We pay for this stuff. Why overburden our health care system? You’re not doing anyone any favors defending cola as a snap choice.

And yes, I generally eat chicken, rice, veggies, a lot of peanut butter and cheap veggies and it’s not
weird and it takes the exact same time to make as any food. Not sure why you’re willing to die on this hill.

How many hours do you work/week? What's your HHI? How old are your children? What's your child care coverage?

Yeah, none of that impacts eating healthy. It’s about choices. We should limit those to healthy foods for snap recipients. You can keep yelling, but it’s just the truth.

If I can go on fking YouTube and learn how to make a huge thing of granola for $5 that will feed me for a week at breakfast, so can the person receiving free subsidized internet. Just saying your excuses are perpetual. We subsidize bad choices at present.

Just another person with no understanding of how poor and working people live. All of that impacts eating healthy. All of it.

LOL on granola - one big sugar carb fest.

You do realize that the majority of folks on SNAP - poor rural whites - often do not have access to an internet because the areas are not wired.

But keep riding your high horse.

Granola can easily be made with no sugar.

As for carbs, you sort of need them to survive. Complex carbs that is.

I mean this. I made like 4 pounds of it for less than $5. I added a less than 1/5 a cup of honey. It’s heart healthy. I really think we are doing the country a disservice by subsidizing so many unhealthy foods like heart clogging chips and diabetes inducing soda. I don’t know why that’s so controversial. We can get a panel of experts (hopefully excluding too much of the junk food industry) to decide which foods should qualify for food stamps. We’d have better outcomes in society.

So what’s your strategy? How are you going to pull together this panel? How are you going to beat back Big Ag? How are you going to eliminate subsidies to the Fanjul family?

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Junk food is easy. It's tasty! I'm UMC and I love junk food too It's awful for you and I know it. I'm highly educated and I still love it! I don't eat it every day and it's certainly not my go-to meal. But I'm just saying - if you are poor and uneducated - you go for what is easiest, tastiest and that's junk food.

Do you know how much damn time it takes to cook a nutritious farm fresh meal? Sorry but fresh ingredients may be healthy but without a way to make it delicious, it's bland as hell.

I find a lot of healthy stuff like coconut water gross. I find a lot of healthy snacks gross. On the other hand, 3/4 of what you eat that isn't considered junk food - like Kraft Mac and Cheese is not as healthy as you people think. REAL healthy meal take time and effort to prepare. A salad is less yummy without yummy salad dressing. Who sits there and just eats raw veggies all day - are you a rabbit or something?

It's more than providing SNAP benefits to the poor. IT's a cultural thing in the US in terms of eating well prepared foods. Let me just say for the record that 1/2 the stuff sold in Safeway/Giant are pretty bad for you even if it's not Doritos. Between the food coloring, preservatives and salt/sugar content, seriously, you all are eating junk food as well. I'd define most of what's served in our K-12 public schools as junk food - we should probably start defining what healthy food is first!

Who is advocating cooking a farm to table fresh meal? This isn’t a Michelin star restaurant. Tax payers are simply tired of subsidizing high fructose corn syrup. Give the poors a sweet potato. So many cry babies in this thread. Fking grow up.

So what do you eat consistently? You really eating sweet potatoes weekly and drinking only juice and water? Cause your subsidizing something unhealthy even if it's not high fructose corn syrup unless you eat like a rabbit or have a personal chef or devote hours to creating healthy meals for EVERY SINGLE MEAL! It's not about eating Michelin. It's about eating stuff that doesn't contain a ton of chemicals. You have no idea how hard that is - you may not have a ton of it but I guarantee that unless you live on a farm or have a ton of money, you are subsidizing junk food just like we all are.

I am advocating snap benefits exclude soft drinks, and a lot of deserts, and chips and a panel of experts or consultants design a menu of foods that don’t cause cancer and childhood obesity.

We pay for this stuff. Why overburden our health care system? You’re not doing anyone any favors defending cola as a snap choice.

And yes, I generally eat chicken, rice, veggies, a lot of peanut butter and cheap veggies and it’s not
weird and it takes the exact same time to make as any food. Not sure why you’re willing to die on this hill.

How many hours do you work/week? What's your HHI? How old are your children? What's your child care coverage?

Yeah, none of that impacts eating healthy. It’s about choices. We should limit those to healthy foods for snap recipients. You can keep yelling, but it’s just the truth.

If I can go on fking YouTube and learn how to make a huge thing of granola for $5 that will feed me for a week at breakfast, so can the person receiving free subsidized internet. Just saying your excuses are perpetual. We subsidize bad choices at present.

Just another person with no understanding of how poor and working people live. All of that impacts eating healthy. All of it.

LOL on granola - one big sugar carb fest.

You do realize that the majority of folks on SNAP - poor rural whites - often do not have access to an internet because the areas are not wired.

But keep riding your high horse.

Granola can easily be made with no sugar.

As for carbs, you sort of need them to survive. Complex carbs that is.

I mean this. I made like 4 pounds of it for less than $5. I added a less than 1/5 a cup of honey. It’s heart healthy. I really think we are doing the country a disservice by subsidizing so many unhealthy foods like heart clogging chips and diabetes inducing soda. I don’t know why that’s so controversial. We can get a panel of experts (hopefully excluding too much of the junk food industry) to decide which foods should qualify for food stamps. We’d have better outcomes in society.

DP. There is no way you can buy 4 pounds of oats without buying it on bulk online. But, who can haul that much around and store it. Also, you can't add nuts and seeds for that price?? This is insane thrifting. I used to make my own granola, and agree it can be healthy if eaten in moderation.

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Junk food is easy. It's tasty! I'm UMC and I love junk food too It's awful for you and I know it. I'm highly educated and I still love it! I don't eat it every day and it's certainly not my go-to meal. But I'm just saying - if you are poor and uneducated - you go for what is easiest, tastiest and that's junk food.

Do you know how much damn time it takes to cook a nutritious farm fresh meal? Sorry but fresh ingredients may be healthy but without a way to make it delicious, it's bland as hell.

I find a lot of healthy stuff like coconut water gross. I find a lot of healthy snacks gross. On the other hand, 3/4 of what you eat that isn't considered junk food - like Kraft Mac and Cheese is not as healthy as you people think. REAL healthy meal take time and effort to prepare. A salad is less yummy without yummy salad dressing. Who sits there and just eats raw veggies all day - are you a rabbit or something?

It's more than providing SNAP benefits to the poor. IT's a cultural thing in the US in terms of eating well prepared foods. Let me just say for the record that 1/2 the stuff sold in Safeway/Giant are pretty bad for you even if it's not Doritos. Between the food coloring, preservatives and salt/sugar content, seriously, you all are eating junk food as well. I'd define most of what's served in our K-12 public schools as junk food - we should probably start defining what healthy food is first!

Who is advocating cooking a farm to table fresh meal? This isn’t a Michelin star restaurant. Tax payers are simply tired of subsidizing high fructose corn syrup. Give the poors a sweet potato. So many cry babies in this thread. Fking grow up.

So what do you eat consistently? You really eating sweet potatoes weekly and drinking only juice and water? Cause your subsidizing something unhealthy even if it's not high fructose corn syrup unless you eat like a rabbit or have a personal chef or devote hours to creating healthy meals for EVERY SINGLE MEAL! It's not about eating Michelin. It's about eating stuff that doesn't contain a ton of chemicals. You have no idea how hard that is - you may not have a ton of it but I guarantee that unless you live on a farm or have a ton of money, you are subsidizing junk food just like we all are.

I am advocating snap benefits exclude soft drinks, and a lot of deserts, and chips and a panel of experts or consultants design a menu of foods that don’t cause cancer and childhood obesity.

We pay for this stuff. Why overburden our health care system? You’re not doing anyone any favors defending cola as a snap choice.

And yes, I generally eat chicken, rice, veggies, a lot of peanut butter and cheap veggies and it’s not
weird and it takes the exact same time to make as any food. Not sure why you’re willing to die on this hill.

How many hours do you work/week? What's your HHI? How old are your children? What's your child care coverage?

Yeah, none of that impacts eating healthy. It’s about choices. We should limit those to healthy foods for snap recipients. You can keep yelling, but it’s just the truth.

If I can go on fking YouTube and learn how to make a huge thing of granola for $5 that will feed me for a week at breakfast, so can the person receiving free subsidized internet. Just saying your excuses are perpetual. We subsidize bad choices at present.

Just another person with no understanding of how poor and working people live. All of that impacts eating healthy. All of it.

LOL on granola - one big sugar carb fest.

You do realize that the majority of folks on SNAP - poor rural whites - often do not have access to an internet because the areas are not wired.

But keep riding your high horse.

Granola can easily be made with no sugar.

As for carbs, you sort of need them to survive. Complex carbs that is.

I mean this. I made like 4 pounds of it for less than $5. I added a less than 1/5 a cup of honey. It’s heart healthy. I really think we are doing the country a disservice by subsidizing so many unhealthy foods like heart clogging chips and diabetes inducing soda. I don’t know why that’s so controversial. We can get a panel of experts (hopefully excluding too much of the junk food industry) to decide which foods should qualify for food stamps. We’d have better outcomes in society.

DP. There is no way you can buy 4 pounds of oats for that price without buying it on bulk online. But, who can haul that much around and store it. Also, you can't add nuts and seeds for that price?? This is insane thrifting. I used to make my own granola, and agree it can be healthy if eaten in moderation.

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Junk food is easy. It's tasty! I'm UMC and I love junk food too It's awful for you and I know it. I'm highly educated and I still love it! I don't eat it every day and it's certainly not my go-to meal. But I'm just saying - if you are poor and uneducated - you go for what is easiest, tastiest and that's junk food.

Do you know how much damn time it takes to cook a nutritious farm fresh meal? Sorry but fresh ingredients may be healthy but without a way to make it delicious, it's bland as hell.

I find a lot of healthy stuff like coconut water gross. I find a lot of healthy snacks gross. On the other hand, 3/4 of what you eat that isn't considered junk food - like Kraft Mac and Cheese is not as healthy as you people think. REAL healthy meal take time and effort to prepare. A salad is less yummy without yummy salad dressing. Who sits there and just eats raw veggies all day - are you a rabbit or something?

It's more than providing SNAP benefits to the poor. IT's a cultural thing in the US in terms of eating well prepared foods. Let me just say for the record that 1/2 the stuff sold in Safeway/Giant are pretty bad for you even if it's not Doritos. Between the food coloring, preservatives and salt/sugar content, seriously, you all are eating junk food as well. I'd define most of what's served in our K-12 public schools as junk food - we should probably start defining what healthy food is first!

Who is advocating cooking a farm to table fresh meal? This isn’t a Michelin star restaurant. Tax payers are simply tired of subsidizing high fructose corn syrup. Give the poors a sweet potato. So many cry babies in this thread. Fking grow up.

So what do you eat consistently? You really eating sweet potatoes weekly and drinking only juice and water? Cause your subsidizing something unhealthy even if it's not high fructose corn syrup unless you eat like a rabbit or have a personal chef or devote hours to creating healthy meals for EVERY SINGLE MEAL! It's not about eating Michelin. It's about eating stuff that doesn't contain a ton of chemicals. You have no idea how hard that is - you may not have a ton of it but I guarantee that unless you live on a farm or have a ton of money, you are subsidizing junk food just like we all are.

I am advocating snap benefits exclude soft drinks, and a lot of deserts, and chips and a panel of experts or consultants design a menu of foods that don’t cause cancer and childhood obesity.

We pay for this stuff. Why overburden our health care system? You’re not doing anyone any favors defending cola as a snap choice.

And yes, I generally eat chicken, rice, veggies, a lot of peanut butter and cheap veggies and it’s not
weird and it takes the exact same time to make as any food. Not sure why you’re willing to die on this hill.

How many hours do you work/week? What's your HHI? How old are your children? What's your child care coverage?

Yeah, none of that impacts eating healthy. It’s about choices. We should limit those to healthy foods for snap recipients. You can keep yelling, but it’s just the truth.

If I can go on fking YouTube and learn how to make a huge thing of granola for $5 that will feed me for a week at breakfast, so can the person receiving free subsidized internet. Just saying your excuses are perpetual. We subsidize bad choices at present.

Just another person with no understanding of how poor and working people live. All of that impacts eating healthy. All of it.

LOL on granola - one big sugar carb fest.

You do realize that the majority of folks on SNAP - poor rural whites - often do not have access to an internet because the areas are not wired.

But keep riding your high horse.

Granola can easily be made with no sugar.

As for carbs, you sort of need them to survive. Complex carbs that is.

I mean this. I made like 4 pounds of it for less than $5. I added a less than 1/5 a cup of honey. It’s heart healthy. I really think we are doing the country a disservice by subsidizing so many unhealthy foods like heart clogging chips and diabetes inducing soda. I don’t know why that’s so controversial. We can get a panel of experts (hopefully excluding too much of the junk food industry) to decide which foods should qualify for food stamps. We’d have better outcomes in society.

So what’s your strategy? How are you going to pull together this panel? How are you going to beat back Big Ag? How are you going to eliminate subsidies to the Fanjul family?

Oh fck it. Let’s just double down and make snap benefits valid only at Dunkin Donuts. I mean they’re everywhere and it’s just easier than trying to nudge society, who clearly don’t know better at all, into eating somewhat healthy.

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Anonymous wrote:I had two egg whites, two pieces of toast with olive oil and some berries for lunch. I am full. It took 10 minutes to make and it was less than $5. I am not on snap. This meal doesn’t cause obesity. America is massively obese. We should not subsidize heart attacks. Anyone claiming different is poorly educated and wrong.

What kind of eggs did you have? Cause let me tell you that good eggs are $$$. Olive oil??! Are you kidding? What kind of toast did you have cause white bread is about as healthy as Doritos. I love that you think you're being healthy. Just because it was not a bag of chips does not mean it's healthy. What poor person is going to have the education of eating a balanced diet - are you Fing kidding me? They got a lot of other things to worry about in their lives I'm sure of it.

If the chips and soda weren’t in the store, they wouldn’t be eating them. What if the store only sold unprocessed food?

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Junk food is easy. It's tasty! I'm UMC and I love junk food too It's awful for you and I know it. I'm highly educated and I still love it! I don't eat it every day and it's certainly not my go-to meal. But I'm just saying - if you are poor and uneducated - you go for what is easiest, tastiest and that's junk food.

Do you know how much damn time it takes to cook a nutritious farm fresh meal? Sorry but fresh ingredients may be healthy but without a way to make it delicious, it's bland as hell.

I find a lot of healthy stuff like coconut water gross. I find a lot of healthy snacks gross. On the other hand, 3/4 of what you eat that isn't considered junk food - like Kraft Mac and Cheese is not as healthy as you people think. REAL healthy meal take time and effort to prepare. A salad is less yummy without yummy salad dressing. Who sits there and just eats raw veggies all day - are you a rabbit or something?

It's more than providing SNAP benefits to the poor. IT's a cultural thing in the US in terms of eating well prepared foods. Let me just say for the record that 1/2 the stuff sold in Safeway/Giant are pretty bad for you even if it's not Doritos. Between the food coloring, preservatives and salt/sugar content, seriously, you all are eating junk food as well. I'd define most of what's served in our K-12 public schools as junk food - we should probably start defining what healthy food is first!

Who is advocating cooking a farm to table fresh meal? This isn’t a Michelin star restaurant. Tax payers are simply tired of subsidizing high fructose corn syrup. Give the poors a sweet potato. So many cry babies in this thread. Fking grow up.

So what do you eat consistently? You really eating sweet potatoes weekly and drinking only juice and water? Cause your subsidizing something unhealthy even if it's not high fructose corn syrup unless you eat like a rabbit or have a personal chef or devote hours to creating healthy meals for EVERY SINGLE MEAL! It's not about eating Michelin. It's about eating stuff that doesn't contain a ton of chemicals. You have no idea how hard that is - you may not have a ton of it but I guarantee that unless you live on a farm or have a ton of money, you are subsidizing junk food just like we all are.

I am advocating snap benefits exclude soft drinks, and a lot of deserts, and chips and a panel of experts or consultants design a menu of foods that don’t cause cancer and childhood obesity.

We pay for this stuff. Why overburden our health care system? You’re not doing anyone any favors defending cola as a snap choice.

And yes, I generally eat chicken, rice, veggies, a lot of peanut butter and cheap veggies and it’s not
weird and it takes the exact same time to make as any food. Not sure why you’re willing to die on this hill.

How many hours do you work/week? What's your HHI? How old are your children? What's your child care coverage?

Yeah, none of that impacts eating healthy. It’s about choices. We should limit those to healthy foods for snap recipients. You can keep yelling, but it’s just the truth.

If I can go on fking YouTube and learn how to make a huge thing of granola for $5 that will feed me for a week at breakfast, so can the person receiving free subsidized internet. Just saying your excuses are perpetual. We subsidize bad choices at present.

Just another person with no understanding of how poor and working people live. All of that impacts eating healthy. All of it.

LOL on granola - one big sugar carb fest.

You do realize that the majority of folks on SNAP - poor rural whites - often do not have access to an internet because the areas are not wired.

But keep riding your high horse.

Granola can easily be made with no sugar.

As for carbs, you sort of need them to survive. Complex carbs that is.

I mean this. I made like 4 pounds of it for less than $5. I added a less than 1/5 a cup of honey. It’s heart healthy. I really think we are doing the country a disservice by subsidizing so many unhealthy foods like heart clogging chips and diabetes inducing soda. I don’t know why that’s so controversial. We can get a panel of experts (hopefully excluding too much of the junk food industry) to decide which foods should qualify for food stamps. We’d have better outcomes in society.

So what’s your strategy? How are you going to pull together this panel? How are you going to beat back Big Ag? How are you going to eliminate subsidies to the Fanjul family?

Oh fck it. Let’s just double down and make snap benefits valid only at Dunkin Donuts. I mean they’re everywhere and it’s just easier than trying to nudge society, who clearly don’t know better at all, into eating somewhat healthy.

Seriously. Folks are explaining the hurdles for healthy food due to Big Ag and your retort is more like Big A$$. Either be part of the answer or continue to be part of the problem.