study shows how 42M recipients spend their food stamps

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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.

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.

Fresh frozen strawberries are much cheaper than fresh and nutritious.

Apples
oranges
celery
carrots

what’s wrong with cucumbers and tomatoes and dressing as a side?

Frozen strawberries are gross. Also, how many nice grocery stores do you think exist in low income areas? How many wealthy teens do you see eating celery sticks?

Someone has a strawberry fetish.

There are tons of fruit besides strawberries.

Indeed, and they are all perishable, and not readily available year round at grocery stores in low income areas, unless you think they should just eat rotting fruit.

Strawberries are expensive and spoil quickly.

Thus, there are no fruits and vegetables available for SNAP recipients and they must eat rotten potatoes.

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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.

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.

Fresh frozen strawberries are much cheaper than fresh and nutritious.

Apples
oranges
celery
carrots

what’s wrong with cucumbers and tomatoes and dressing as a side?

Frozen strawberries are gross. Also, how many nice grocery stores do you think exist in low income areas? How many wealthy teens do you see eating celery sticks?

Someone has a strawberry fetish.

There are tons of fruit besides strawberries.

Indeed, and they are all perishable, and not readily available year round at grocery stores in low income areas, unless you think they should just eat rotting fruit.

Fat sick people shouldn’t drink soda! The right wingers want to destroy America!

Go away, troll.

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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.

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.

Fresh frozen strawberries are much cheaper than fresh and nutritious.

Apples
oranges
celery
carrots

what’s wrong with cucumbers and tomatoes and dressing as a side?

Frozen strawberries are gross. Also, how many nice grocery stores do you think exist in low income areas? How many wealthy teens do you see eating celery sticks?

Someone has a strawberry fetish.

There are tons of fruit besides strawberries.

Indeed, and they are all perishable, and not readily available year round at grocery stores in low income areas, unless you think they should just eat rotting fruit.

Fat sick people shouldn’t drink soda! The right wingers want to destroy America!

MAGA wants big government to monitor the buying habits of the poor or they ideally would just have people starve and die. They don’t care about children, only fetuses.

[Anonymous]

Obesity = Depopulation
The is the globalist agenda.

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Anonymous wrote:Obesity = Depopulation
The is the globalist agenda.

*This

Democrat elites promote illness and disease because it makes them wealthy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Obesity = Depopulation
The is the globalist agenda.

*This

Democrat elites promote illness and disease because it makes them wealthy.

The biggest beneficiary of poor people using SNAP to buy crap food is Walmart. Do you want to guess which party gets the most Walton money?

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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.

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.

Fresh frozen strawberries are much cheaper than fresh and nutritious.

Apples
oranges
celery
carrots

what’s wrong with cucumbers and tomatoes and dressing as a side?

Frozen strawberries are gross. Also, how many nice grocery stores do you think exist in low income areas? How many wealthy teens do you see eating celery sticks?

Someone has a strawberry fetish.

There are tons of fruit besides strawberries.

Indeed, and they are all perishable, and not readily available year round at grocery stores in low income areas, unless you think they should just eat rotting fruit.

Fat sick people shouldn’t drink soda! The right wingers want to destroy America!

MAGA wants big government to monitor the buying habits of the poor or they ideally would just have people starve and die. They don’t care about children, only fetuses.

Leftist want to get poor people and their children addicted to high fat, high sugar, highly processed junk food and soda so they will vote for democrats. Leftists know these foods are extremely unhealthy and actually contribute and cause diseases that lead to early and painful death.

However, leftists want the votes so they happily kill people for votes.

[Anonymous]

Rs should get behind legislation like this:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1230

Right?

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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.

Fresh frozen strawberries are much cheaper than fresh and nutritious.

Apples
oranges
celery
carrots

what’s wrong with cucumbers and tomatoes and dressing as a side?

Frozen strawberries are gross. Also, how many nice grocery stores do you think exist in low income areas? How many wealthy teens do you see eating celery sticks?

Someone has a strawberry fetish.

There are tons of fruit besides strawberries.

Indeed, and they are all perishable, and not readily available year round at grocery stores in low income areas, unless you think they should just eat rotting fruit.

Fat sick people shouldn’t drink soda! The right wingers want to destroy America!

MAGA wants big government to monitor the buying habits of the poor or they ideally would just have people starve and die. They don’t care about children, only fetuses.

Leftist want to get poor people and their children addicted to high fat, high sugar, highly processed junk food and soda so they will vote for democrats. Leftists know these foods are extremely unhealthy and actually contribute and cause diseases that lead to early and painful death.

However, leftists want the votes so they happily kill people for votes.

Do you support this bill?
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1230

[Anonymous]

My dad was one of the authors of the 1964 food stamp act and he became extremely disillusioned with how it evolved following his time in the government. It really was a good idea at its core but quickly gave way to special interests and lobbyists and stopped being something designed to help those in need.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t trust the motivations of the study authors, but I’m not at all surprised the findings. When’s the last time you saw fresh healthy affordable food in a convenience store or a Dollar General? That’s where a lot of SNAP recipients are buying their food because it’s the only thing in town. It’s called food deserts and poor people are much more likely to live in them. Look it up.

People who work multiple jobs don’t have an extra 2 hours every few days to take three busses to the grocery stores in the nicer suburbs to stock up on healthy ingredients. I get salty when I have to drive more than 10 minutes in my comfy car to fill the trunk.

As for SNAP recipients working less, that’s the point. But I suppose the right wingers prefer the poor work 80 hours a week to not starve. That’s what it’s all about to that crowd- maximizing how much you can extract from people with nothing.

Produce at the dollar store: Fruits and veggies now at 5,000 Dollar General locations, company says

30 Jan 2024
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/01/30/dollar-general-stores-produce/72397538007/

Dollar General is now offering fresh produce options in more than 5,000 stores across the country, the company revealed to USA TODAY exclusively. According to a news release from the company, this move would mean the retailer "has more individual points of produce distribution than any other U.S. mass retailer or grocer."


Produce has marked an area of expansion for Dollar General. In 2022, then-CEO Jeff Owen said on a company earnings call that fresh produce was sold in about 3,000 of its 18,800 stores, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Dollar General's produce offerings include tomatoes, onions, apples, strawberries, potatoes, lemons, salad mixes and more. The company told USA TODAY its stores now carry the top 20 items that would typically be sold in grocery stores.

The company announced it's "Food First" initiative in July 2023, which included the expansion of its private label brand, Clover Valley. The expansion saw over 100 new items introduced to Dollar General shelves, including entrees, sauces, condiments and more.

Why are you so invested in making people sick?

Check the date on that press release and get back to me. Takes some time to turn the ship that is lifelong eating habits.

Dollar General is the only game in many towns, which they know is and is absolutely reflected in their per unit pricing. But I am glad to see they are at least paying lip service to perishable goods, at least for now.

Still doesn’t change the fact that it costs $1.50 for an apple that provides 100 calories and $1.50 for a bag of discount Funyuns that provides 450 calories, but healthy options are good. I’d like to see more states double allotments for fresh produce, because the math still doesn’t math for someone trying to maximize their calories per dollar.

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Anonymous wrote:Government and Blackrock corporations in collusion to keep poor people down. Pharma benefits.

Soda corporations definitely are reaping billions from SNAP recipients. Really it’s for food, why is soda even allowed? It has zero nutritional value and is actually harmful to people’s bodies.

There’s something going on with the sweet drinks. I used to volunteer with a food bank and we had cases of water. Almost nobody wanted them unless their water was shut off. They all wanted sweet drinks like soda and sweet tea. If it wasn’t available they would buy white sugar to put into drinks. Big sugar is a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Fresh frozen strawberries are much cheaper than fresh and nutritious.

Apples
oranges
celery
carrots

what’s wrong with cucumbers and tomatoes and dressing as a side?

Your privilege is showing.

Fruit is very perishable. Most low income people cannot go to the grocery store more than once per week.

^Bloated government worker?

I'm the "fruit is very perishable" poster. I don't know if you're referring to me, but I work in the private sector, in tech. I've never worked for the government.

I eat fresh fruit almost every morning with my oatmeal, which takes like 30min to slow cook. Fruit is pretty expensive. We don't normally have chips in the house; the only soda we have is ginger ale, and a few small coke bottles for guests who want it. I wfh; I live a nice umc life. But, I didn't always. I grew up lower income, immigrant family.

I think so many of you live in a privileged bubble and have zero clue on what it's like to grow up in a low income, urban household, many with single working moms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t trust the motivations of the study authors, but I’m not at all surprised the findings. When’s the last time you saw fresh healthy affordable food in a convenience store or a Dollar General? That’s where a lot of SNAP recipients are buying their food because it’s the only thing in town. It’s called food deserts and poor people are much more likely to live in them. Look it up.

People who work multiple jobs don’t have an extra 2 hours every few days to take three busses to the grocery stores in the nicer suburbs to stock up on healthy ingredients. I get salty when I have to drive more than 10 minutes in my comfy car to fill the trunk.

As for SNAP recipients working less, that’s the point. But I suppose the right wingers prefer the poor work 80 hours a week to not starve. That’s what it’s all about to that crowd- maximizing how much you can extract from people with nothing.

Produce at the dollar store: Fruits and veggies now at 5,000 Dollar General locations, company says

30 Jan 2024
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/01/30/dollar-general-stores-produce/72397538007/

Dollar General is now offering fresh produce options in more than 5,000 stores across the country, the company revealed to USA TODAY exclusively. According to a news release from the company, this move would mean the retailer "has more individual points of produce distribution than any other U.S. mass retailer or grocer."


Produce has marked an area of expansion for Dollar General. In 2022, then-CEO Jeff Owen said on a company earnings call that fresh produce was sold in about 3,000 of its 18,800 stores, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Dollar General's produce offerings include tomatoes, onions, apples, strawberries, potatoes, lemons, salad mixes and more. The company told USA TODAY its stores now carry the top 20 items that would typically be sold in grocery stores.

The company announced it's "Food First" initiative in July 2023, which included the expansion of its private label brand, Clover Valley. The expansion saw over 100 new items introduced to Dollar General shelves, including entrees, sauces, condiments and more.

Why are you so invested in making people sick?

Check the date on that press release and get back to me. Takes some time to turn the ship that is lifelong eating habits.

Dollar General is the only game in many towns, which they know is and is absolutely reflected in their per unit pricing. But I am glad to see they are at least paying lip service to perishable goods, at least for now.

Still doesn’t change the fact that it costs $1.50 for an apple that provides 100 calories and $1.50 for a bag of discount Funyuns that provides 450 calories, but healthy options are good. I’d like to see more states double allotments for fresh produce, because the math still doesn’t math for someone trying to maximize their calories per dollar.

agree. And an apple isn't quite as filling as a bag of chips. That's what low income people are thinking about, not "an apple a day keeps the doctor away".

You all may recall how Michelle Obama tried to make school meals healthier. The problem is that's not possible the way we do school lunches here. My kids tell me that the school apples are tasteless. No one eats them. You need to have a kitchen staff to cook from scratch, but that's not how we do school lunches here.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

If you worked 2 jobs, and had to take the bus for both jobs, just how much time do you think you'd have to cook dinner from scratch?

My mother worked a low level job and cooked from scratched. She was up at 5am, worked, came home and finished prepping meals, then cleaned up. She finally finished at 9pm and then just went to bed. Rinse and repeat. She at least had a ride to work. She never helped us with hw or anything else. Too tired (and I don't blame her).

I'd like to see you be a low income person, work a low income job, take public transit to work, and cook from scratch.

I am now fortunate to wfh and earn a good income. So, we can cook from scratch and do most nights.

Are you serious? So throwing pasta in a pot of boiling water for 6-7 mins is cooking from scratch? Dumping a can of beans in a pot for five mins is too much work? Okay.