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

[Anonymous]

Grocery store prices are going to go up again to cover all that lost revenue, not to mention loss in income for all the suppliers, trucking companies, producers. I thought he was going to lower grocery prices day 1?

[Anonymous]

Thinking of this thread today as I eat my lunch, which is a baked sweet potato topped with some of my "batch cooked slop" (pumpkin chili). According to some posters this is a meal that isn't good enough for people on snap. Eye roll...

ALSO have you guys seen those "ebt haul" videos? Most people on SNAP/EBT seem to have a working kitchen even if they don't use it. A refrigerator, an oven, and likely a microwave and a few other appliances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thinking of this thread today as I eat my lunch, which is a baked sweet potato topped with some of my "batch cooked slop" (pumpkin chili). According to some posters this is a meal that isn't good enough for people on snap. Eye roll...

ALSO have you guys seen those "ebt haul" videos? Most people on SNAP/EBT seem to have a working kitchen even if they don't use it. A refrigerator, an oven, and likely a microwave and a few other appliances.

You seem a gullible sort

I don't watch any kind of "haul" videos, even the consumer ones

They are all clickbait, for those that want to waste time. Just because you have seen a haul video doesn't mean you have seen the reality of most people on SNAP.

Walk around your city. I'm sure you will meet real people who need SNAP to survive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thinking of this thread today as I eat my lunch, which is a baked sweet potato topped with some of my "batch cooked slop" (pumpkin chili). According to some posters this is a meal that isn't good enough for people on snap. Eye roll...

ALSO have you guys seen those "ebt haul" videos? Most people on SNAP/EBT seem to have a working kitchen even if they don't use it. A refrigerator, an oven, and likely a microwave and a few other appliances.

You seem a gullible sort

I don't watch any kind of "haul" videos, even the consumer ones

They are all clickbait, for those that want to waste time. Just because you have seen a haul video doesn't mean you have seen the reality of most people on SNAP.

Walk around your city. I'm sure you will meet real people who need SNAP to survive.

I knew a ton of people on ebt when I worked in restaurants. They all had functioning kitchens with ovens, freezers, microwaves, pots and pans etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thinking of this thread today as I eat my lunch, which is a baked sweet potato topped with some of my "batch cooked slop" (pumpkin chili). According to some posters this is a meal that isn't good enough for people on snap. Eye roll...

ALSO have you guys seen those "ebt haul" videos? Most people on SNAP/EBT seem to have a working kitchen even if they don't use it. A refrigerator, an oven, and likely a microwave and a few other appliances.

You seem a gullible sort

I don't watch any kind of "haul" videos, even the consumer ones

They are all clickbait, for those that want to waste time. Just because you have seen a haul video doesn't mean you have seen the reality of most people on SNAP.

Walk around your city. I'm sure you will meet real people who need SNAP to survive.

I knew a ton of people on ebt when I worked in restaurants. They all had functioning kitchens with ovens, freezers, microwaves, pots and pans etc.

And were they all doing hauls of food you disapprove of?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thinking of this thread today as I eat my lunch, which is a baked sweet potato topped with some of my "batch cooked slop" (pumpkin chili). According to some posters this is a meal that isn't good enough for people on snap. Eye roll...

ALSO have you guys seen those "ebt haul" videos? Most people on SNAP/EBT seem to have a working kitchen even if they don't use it. A refrigerator, an oven, and likely a microwave and a few other appliances.

You seem a gullible sort

I don't watch any kind of "haul" videos, even the consumer ones

They are all clickbait, for those that want to waste time. Just because you have seen a haul video doesn't mean you have seen the reality of most people on SNAP.

Walk around your city. I'm sure you will meet real people who need SNAP to survive.

I knew a ton of people on ebt when I worked in restaurants. They all had functioning kitchens with ovens, freezers, microwaves, pots and pans etc.

Do you think they were scamming the system, since they get SNAP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thinking of this thread today as I eat my lunch, which is a baked sweet potato topped with some of my "batch cooked slop" (pumpkin chili). According to some posters this is a meal that isn't good enough for people on snap. Eye roll...

ALSO have you guys seen those "ebt haul" videos? Most people on SNAP/EBT seem to have a working kitchen even if they don't use it. A refrigerator, an oven, and likely a microwave and a few other appliances.

Pathetic attempt.

[Anonymous]

My elderly dad gets snap - 30$ a month. He is diligent about frozen and canned foods and things that last and have protein and vitamins and fiber. He will not have that in November. I want you all to know there are real people out there who need these funds to eat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At food pantries, people snap up the fresh produce when it is available. The claim that people choose to eat junk is in part false and in part true due to generational poverty and people tending to follow patterns. The programs around SNAP have been working to fix those root problems and now they are gone. You have no idea how hard it was, and how much effort and lobbying it took to get people to be able to use their snap benefits at a farm market. It wasn’t allowed at all until very recently. When it was allowed farmers invented the mobile farm truck to get the food into neighborhoods that don’t have those markets.

The food pantry I volunteer in has most of the fresh foods left behind and not taken. Meat and dairy will go- but fresh fruits and vegetables are not taken by most

That’s because we’re all addicted to cheap junk food laden with salt, sugar and fat. And lower income people even more so given this sh*t is cheaper and easier to access than fresh fruits and veggies.

Let me see. Apple of dubious freshness that counts as an item in my total and provides 60 calories, or a bag of biscuits that will survive the end times and nets 1,000 calories. Which one should I choose for my hungry kids?

Except most people on food stamps aren’t short on calories. They’d be better off taking the apples. Even if not peek freshness for raw eating, make some applesauce, bake into something, can them. Tons you can do with apples, especially in the fall when the food pantry is quite literally overflowing with them. No one takes the vegetables either, just saying

Again, you ignore the reality that these folks are short on kitchen equipment, storage space, and TIME.

Why do people accept that the poor have less time? They spend fewer hours a week working than higher income households. That’s in large part why they are poor.

Everything about being poor takes more time. Buying in small quantities, taking public transportation from places with little service, price comparing *everything*, waiting in line at the immunization clinic, etc etc etc.

And then there are things about being poor that cost extra money -- financial fees, car insurance, and so on.

I accompanied my mother to a laundromat last year when she wanted to wash some heavy area rugs in a commercial washing machine. I couldn’t believe how expensive it has become to do a single load of laundry at the laundromat, and this was in a small midwestern town with a low cost of living. The amount of time and money you’d have to dedicate to doing laundry at the laundromat weekly is substantial. Some things we take for granted are much more burdensome for those living in poverty.

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Anonymous wrote:My elderly dad gets snap - 30$ a month. He is diligent about frozen and canned foods and things that last and have protein and vitamins and fiber. He will not have that in November. I want you all to know there are real people out there who need these funds to eat.

You can’t help your dad with $30 a month?

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Anonymous wrote:My elderly dad gets snap - 30$ a month. He is diligent about frozen and canned foods and things that last and have protein and vitamins and fiber. He will not have that in November. I want you all to know there are real people out there who need these funds to eat.

You can’t help your dad with $30 a month?

NP. Holy crap, way to miss the point!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My elderly dad gets snap - 30$ a month. He is diligent about frozen and canned foods and things that last and have protein and vitamins and fiber. He will not have that in November. I want you all to know there are real people out there who need these funds to eat.

You can’t help your dad with $30 a month?

Right?! Help your family member. I would be deeply ashamed if one of my parents wasn't able to eat because their EBT for $30 didn't come through.

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Anonymous wrote:My elderly dad gets snap - 30$ a month. He is diligent about frozen and canned foods and things that last and have protein and vitamins and fiber. He will not have that in November. I want you all to know there are real people out there who need these funds to eat.

You can’t help your dad with $30 a month?

Right?! Help your family member. I would be deeply ashamed if one of my parents wasn't able to eat because their EBT for $30 didn't come through.

maybe she's furloughed or laid off like thousands of others?

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Anonymous wrote:My elderly dad gets snap - 30$ a month. He is diligent about frozen and canned foods and things that last and have protein and vitamins and fiber. He will not have that in November. I want you all to know there are real people out there who need these funds to eat.

You can’t help your dad with $30 a month?

Right?! Help your family member. I would be deeply ashamed if one of my parents wasn't able to eat because their EBT for $30 didn't come through.

maybe she's furloughed or laid off like thousands of others?

Then she should be helping her dad get food from a food pantry.

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Anonymous wrote:My elderly dad gets snap - 30$ a month. He is diligent about frozen and canned foods and things that last and have protein and vitamins and fiber. He will not have that in November. I want you all to know there are real people out there who need these funds to eat.

You can’t help your dad with $30 a month?

Right?! Help your family member. I would be deeply ashamed if one of my parents wasn't able to eat because their EBT for $30 didn't come through.

maybe she's furloughed or laid off like thousands of others?

Then she should be helping her dad get food from a food pantry.

Yup, furloughed with little kids and actually working for free! I help my dad with more than 30$ and the point is that 30$ matters.

And I can give you my email if you want to send me 30$ so we can use on food (not haul videos).