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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who in government is in charge of this? Food stamps should only pay for healthy food, none of this junk. [/quote]

Yeah let's see how much healthy food $35 buys you.

Go ahead show us your menu for the week for 35 bucks. 21 meals. Go ahead. Show the prices for each item.

Make that work so shut it.[/quote]

2lbs dry spaghetti, $2.16 (3,200 calories)
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Spaghetti-32-oz/10534105

24oz meat spaghetti sauce, $1.70
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Flavored-with-Meat-Pasta-Sauce-24-oz/19758049
5lb rice, $3.52 (8k calories)
8lb pinto beans, $7.62 (12,500 calories)
42oz rolled oats, $3.98 (4,500 calories)
2x Can green beans, 70cents (1.40)
2x Can beets, 86cents (1.92)
2x Can carrots, $1.06 (2,12)
Can spam(generic) $2.18 (4.36)

$28.78, money left over… and food left over at the end of the week too.

That is 28k calories of food just from the spaghetti, rice, beans and oats, two weeks at 2k a day before adding the cans.

There are lots of ways to make it work…

1lb of frozen tilapia, $5.97.
3lb frozen chicken, $8.76.
1 lb bacon, $5.12

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So the protein falls outside the budget. There are no herbs or spices to make the beans palatable. Ditto oil.

No real sources of calcium. No fruit.

A sure way to squelch a kid’s desire for veggies is to serve ones out of a can.

The pasta and meat sauce would probably make 2 of the 35 meals.

What is the breakfast menu?[/quote]

No, what it shows is that for $17.28 you get 28,000 calories of rice/beans/pasta/oats, enough for two weeks.

That means you only need $9 a week for those items, leaving $26 per week for meat, vegetables, oil, etc.

Bananas are .26 each. Gala apples are .69, an orange is .98. (All prices Walmart as before)

Go ahead and give yourself a dollar a day for fruit, $7.

1 gallon of vegetable oil is $10, enough to last weeks. (256 servings, 31,000 calories)

Spices, salt, etc, are a negligible expense on a per meal basis.

Remember we are talking about feeding a single adult here.

$35 a week is limiting but the idea that you can’t eat a healthy diet on it simply isn’t true.  The diet will be light on meat, heavy on rice/beans/pasta and vegetables.

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Again, clueless about how the poor are not able to grocery shop regularly, and so they rely on non perishable items. Fruit is perishable. Sure, they can eat a can of vegetables for dinner.  But they aren't taking a can of vegetables to school or work, nor are they having them for a snack.

Spices are actually quite expensive.  And while you think per meal it's negligible. when you have a fixed food budget, you aren't buying a tiny jar of spices over snack items to feed the kids the entire week.
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Anyone suggesting buying in bulk has never had to live on a tight budget. Do they think poor people don't realize that it's cheaper to buy in bulk? Bulk buying requires excess cash to be able to afford the larger purchase rather than smaller purchases every time you get funds, it requires space to store the food, and it requires a way to get it home [/quote]

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