study shows how 42M recipients spend their food stamps

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I think eliminating soda is a pretty easy fix. Soda has no nutritional value and is bad for your health. Do people realize that SNAP mothers give their very young children soda? Would you give your own toddler soda? I have seen soda given to children still in diapers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think eliminating soda is a pretty easy fix. Soda has no nutritional value and is bad for your health. Do people realize that SNAP mothers give their very young children soda? Would you give your own toddler soda? I have seen soda given to children still in diapers.

Why do you get to make the call on what the poor and disabled eat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think eliminating soda is a pretty easy fix. Soda has no nutritional value and is bad for your health. Do people realize that SNAP mothers give their very young children soda? Would you give your own toddler soda? I have seen soda given to children still in diapers.

I wouldn't do things that even wealthy mothers do, like send their kids to boarding school. But, unfortunately, we can't dictate what parents do.

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

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap?

Exactly. Growing up, we couldn’t afford that stuff.

dp This is 2024, not 1974. A 2 liter bottle of soda is cheaper than a half gallon of milk.

I also remember soda being expensive when I was younger. We only started getting it when my dad started making more when I was a teen. McD was also not that relatively cheap.

This is not the case today.

A little carton of fresh strawberries cost $4.99 (and sometimes $6.99). It's not much of a snack to last a week, and actually, it wouldn't even last week because it would start to get moldy. A bag of chips is $2.99 and can last a week.

A bag of chips doesn’t last a week. Chips cost between $6-$7 if not more per bag. Show me $2.99 chips.

$2.86 for 16 oz

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Party-Size-Sour-Cream-Onion-Potato-Chips-16-oz/987236045?

Out of stock. You can’t buy food that isn’t in stock.

[Anonymous]

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

Soda is expensive vs water. Candy is more expensive than fruit.

Go to the grocery store and look at how much a carton of strawberries is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think eliminating soda is a pretty easy fix. Soda has no nutritional value and is bad for your health. Do people realize that SNAP mothers give their very young children soda? Would you give your own toddler soda? I have seen soda given to children still in diapers.

Why do you get to make the call on what the poor and disabled eat?

Nobody eats carbonated sugar water. It’s not food.

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Pasta, rice and beans are super cheap. You can get a box of whole wheat pasta for less than. $1.50 and it will last for multiple meals.

[Anonymous]

Judge not lest ye be judged.

I imagine life is pretty miserable if you rely on SNAP. Why is it so awful to let people make their own choices, even if they are not the choices you would make?

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Anonymous wrote:And it’s not pretty. Or healthy.

EPIC Report: Food Stamps: A Culture of Dependency
Matthew Dickerson
May 8, 2024
The story of the food stamp program is one of expanding enrollment, higher spending, benefit payments growing faster than inflation, little work by recipients, and ultimately, a greater dependence on taxpayers.

Food stamp enrollment has increased significantly, surging from 17.3 million individuals in 2001 to 42.1 million in 2023.

https://epicforamerica.org/blog/epic-report-food-stamps-a-culture-of-dependency/


— Coca-Cola, Sprite and other soft drinks are the most commonly-bought items via the $135 billion-a-year Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a new study says.

— Candy, potato chips, frozen pizza, ice cream, cookies, and other ultra-processed food dominates the top 20 items, says a report from the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC).

— Recipients spend much of their benefits on junk food, such as soft drinks, chips and other bag snacks, breakfast cereals, frozen handheld snacks, candy, frozen pizza, ice cream coffee creamer, and cookies.



SNAP costs have exploded from $31 billion to $135 billion, his report says, using inflation-adjusted numbers.

Should the government adjust the benefits so that some foods or drinks are not covered? I would think at least making soda unable to be purchased on SNAP would be a good thing.

OMG. You are a monster. I work with the disabled population.

You try being disabled and eating on $35 a week.

Just STFU.

I am the disabled population. So you STFU you abled, lying monster.

And so you want no money at all for food?

What is wrong with you?

Unlike you, I want the disabled to have money for food, and don't want to punish them by deeming certain foods unfit for them.

Because 1 person says no soda, the other says no chips, another doesn't want SNAP people to buy meat, another says no seafood.

This has all been talked about in the past.

And I can see from the website that the EPIC aholes that published this are right wing hatchet pen.

Dear Democrat Troll,
1. Soda is not food. It’s junk.
2. This thread is about poor people who need help with FOOD costs, not “disabled” people who may be rich or poor.
3. Obesity is a scourge, not a treat.
4. Please stop trolling.

[Anonymous]

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

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap?

Exactly. Growing up, we couldn’t afford that stuff.

dp This is 2024, not 1974. A 2 liter bottle of soda is cheaper than a half gallon of milk.

I also remember soda being expensive when I was younger. We only started getting it when my dad started making more when I was a teen. McD was also not that relatively cheap.

This is not the case today.

A little carton of fresh strawberries cost $4.99 (and sometimes $6.99). It's not much of a snack to last a week, and actually, it wouldn't even last week because it would start to get moldy. A bag of chips is $2.99 and can last a week.

A bag of chips doesn’t last a week. Chips cost between $6-$7 if not more per bag. Show me $2.99 chips.

$2.86 for 16 oz

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Party-Size-Sour-Cream-Onion-Potato-Chips-16-oz/987236045?

Now post the ingredients, Einstein.
Highlight any ingredient that is actual food. Now YOU can stfu.

So what?

You want poor people and the disabled to be marginalized and denied food. If they bought meat with SNAP benefir, you would say they were unworthy of that as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And it’s not pretty. Or healthy.

EPIC Report: Food Stamps: A Culture of Dependency
Matthew Dickerson
May 8, 2024
The story of the food stamp program is one of expanding enrollment, higher spending, benefit payments growing faster than inflation, little work by recipients, and ultimately, a greater dependence on taxpayers.

Food stamp enrollment has increased significantly, surging from 17.3 million individuals in 2001 to 42.1 million in 2023.

https://epicforamerica.org/blog/epic-report-food-stamps-a-culture-of-dependency/


— Coca-Cola, Sprite and other soft drinks are the most commonly-bought items via the $135 billion-a-year Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a new study says.

— Candy, potato chips, frozen pizza, ice cream, cookies, and other ultra-processed food dominates the top 20 items, says a report from the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC).

— Recipients spend much of their benefits on junk food, such as soft drinks, chips and other bag snacks, breakfast cereals, frozen handheld snacks, candy, frozen pizza, ice cream coffee creamer, and cookies.



SNAP costs have exploded from $31 billion to $135 billion, his report says, using inflation-adjusted numbers.

Should the government adjust the benefits so that some foods or drinks are not covered? I would think at least making soda unable to be purchased on SNAP would be a good thing.

OMG. You are a monster. I work with the disabled population.

You try being disabled and eating on $35 a week.

Just STFU.

I am the disabled population. So you STFU you abled, lying monster.

And so you want no money at all for food?

What is wrong with you?

Unlike you, I want the disabled to have money for food, and don't want to punish them by deeming certain foods unfit for them.

Because 1 person says no soda, the other says no chips, another doesn't want SNAP people to buy meat, another says no seafood.

This has all been talked about in the past.

And I can see from the website that the EPIC aholes that published this are right wing hatchet pen.

Saying that taxpayers dollars should not pay for carbonated sugar water that makes people sick isn’t saying people should not have food.

What, do you own shares of Coca Cola?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap?

Exactly. Growing up, we couldn’t afford that stuff.

dp This is 2024, not 1974. A 2 liter bottle of soda is cheaper than a half gallon of milk.

I also remember soda being expensive when I was younger. We only started getting it when my dad started making more when I was a teen. McD was also not that relatively cheap.

This is not the case today.

A little carton of fresh strawberries cost $4.99 (and sometimes $6.99). It's not much of a snack to last a week, and actually, it wouldn't even last week because it would start to get moldy. A bag of chips is $2.99 and can last a week.

A bag of chips doesn’t last a week. Chips cost between $6-$7 if not more per bag. Show me $2.99 chips.

$2.86 for 16 oz

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Party-Size-Sour-Cream-Onion-Potato-Chips-16-oz/987236045?

Out of stock. You can’t buy food that isn’t in stock.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Cheddar-Sour-Cream-Potato-Chips-Party-Size-13-oz/114419314?

Same price, in stock

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap?

Exactly. Growing up, we couldn’t afford that stuff.

dp This is 2024, not 1974. A 2 liter bottle of soda is cheaper than a half gallon of milk.

I also remember soda being expensive when I was younger. We only started getting it when my dad started making more when I was a teen. McD was also not that relatively cheap.

This is not the case today.

A little carton of fresh strawberries cost $4.99 (and sometimes $6.99). It's not much of a snack to last a week, and actually, it wouldn't even last week because it would start to get moldy. A bag of chips is $2.99 and can last a week.

A bag of chips doesn’t last a week. Chips cost between $6-$7 if not more per bag. Show me $2.99 chips.

You're not comparing like for like in terms of size.

A small carton with a dozen strawberries is $5. A small bag of chips that has more than a dozen chips is $2.99.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap?

Exactly. Growing up, we couldn’t afford that stuff.

dp This is 2024, not 1974. A 2 liter bottle of soda is cheaper than a half gallon of milk.

I also remember soda being expensive when I was younger. We only started getting it when my dad started making more when I was a teen. McD was also not that relatively cheap.

This is not the case today.

A little carton of fresh strawberries cost $4.99 (and sometimes $6.99). It's not much of a snack to last a week, and actually, it wouldn't even last week because it would start to get moldy. A bag of chips is $2.99 and can last a week.

A bag of chips doesn’t last a week. Chips cost between $6-$7 if not more per bag. Show me $2.99 chips.

$2.86 for 16 oz

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Party-Size-Sour-Cream-Onion-Potato-Chips-16-oz/987236045?

Now post the ingredients, Einstein.
Highlight any ingredient that is actual food. Now YOU can stfu.

So what?

You want poor people and the disabled to be marginalized and denied food. If they bought meat with SNAP benefir, you would say they were unworthy of that as well.

People on SNAP should buy meat. They are worthy of nutritional benefits that are filling and healthy for their bodies. They are not animals to be fed the lowest form of corn based slop and carbonated sugar water that will make them unhealthy and kill them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Soda is expensive vs water. Candy is more expensive than fruit.

Go to the grocery store and look at how much a carton of strawberries is.

Right now, around $5 for a small size. At best we get a couple of days before they get moldy