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Cherries, of course not, but they are allowed and nutritious, so I'm not sure why you include them in the same sentence. Pre-cooked chicken, yes, if the grocery stores can sell premade food to people paying with food stamps, it will open the door for places like McDonalds to accept food stamps.
McDonald's is already accepted on EBT in some states. That door has already been opened.
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Sure it does, freezing meats and vegetables generally doesn't kill nutrients.
I never said freezing food kills nutrients. I think frozen healthy meals would be a great idea. They can be made cheap, last a long time, and are easy to stock next to all the ice cream and Toastinoes.
Poor choice of diet is not restricted to the poor in this country, by any means.
The theory is that those on food stamps should not have to feel "stigmatized" and unable to purchase junk food like everyone else just because they are on assistance. This is under the presumption that generational food stamp receivers feel any shame what so ever that they are being given something for free that other people have to work for in order to provide.
And besides, they need to prepare convenience foods in order to free up that extra time necessary for car detailing.
This is news to me, I've never gone to a food bank but perhaps I should go there and try to score some fresh produce.
Earlier this week I got 10 ears of corn for $2, but that's seasonal and it will be a long time before I see that price again.
wow, they are 2.20 a piece here at kroger PLUS state food tax is 9.5%!!!!
States shld not be allowed to tax food at that rate, even NY only charges 8% and that for "luxury" items, not bread and milk......so I have no prob. with starving people needing EBT. 9.5% is INSANE even if you make 6 figures. I dont see where the state uses that money either, as theres little to no infrastructure.
Poor choice of diet is not restricted to the poor in this country, by any means.
The theory is that those on food stamps should not have to feel "stigmatized" and unable to purchase junk food like everyone else just because they are on assistance. This is under the presumption that generational food stamp receivers feel any shame what so ever that they are being given something for free that other people have to work for in order to provide.
And besides, they need to prepare convenience foods in order to free up that extra time necessary for car detailing.
So they should be able to buy junk food to "feel good" about themselves ?
In case you missed the headlines, we have an obesity problem in America among the poor.
wow, they are 2.20 a piece here at kroger PLUS state food tax is 9.5%!!!!
States shld not be allowed to tax food at that rate, even NY only charges 8% and that for "luxury" items, not bread and milk......so I have no prob. with starving people needing EBT. 9.5% is INSANE even if you make 6 figures. I dont see where the state uses that money either, as theres little to no infrastructure.
Landlines come with their own free electricity, so if the power goes out, your phone still works, welfare electricity or no.
LIHEAP is a joke, I lived in a house with five people where nobody had an income above poverty level, and our income was too high for LIHEAP.
well if a person lives on long island or NYC their electric bills are prolly 800 per month in winter so I wldnt begrudge them that...In 1997 our heat bills were over 600 for a small house NOT COUNTING oil burner...how do they expect low income to afford a small house?
Thank you for the Publix info -- as you can tell, we don't have them here. My folks are in FL, but when I visit them I don't head to Publix. What I did note is that the area the other poster posted about Publix shoppers with the high end cars -- is that it only has something of a 4% poverty rate (not sure how up-to-date that was) which would tell me that anyone who is using the EBT, buying healthy, organic food, and driving a nice car (note the poster didn't say they were all new) might be newly poor. With foreclosures and a depressed economy anything's possible. If any of them are scamming the system, I do take issue with that.
Thank you for sharing your friend's story. There's often more than meets the eye in public.
I know the area Davie is talking about. It's an area which seems to attract a demographic that lives just at the brink of it's financial ability. As well, there are a fair number of people from a directly neighboring area with a lot of illegals and multiple families sharing a single housing unit who likely shop in the store he worked in.
I have no doubt that a number of people using EBT in that store have either made really foolish financial decisions which were enabled by foolish lending practices (homes and cars alike) or are committing fraud by lying about the actual composition of their household. It seems like once a year or so they round up a number of people for benefits fraud, and they often come out of that neighboring area.
If you are a cashier, working the register -- which typically means one's back is toward the windows between the store and the parking lot -- how were you able to see what they drove off in? Did you have enough free time between customers that you could look out the window and visually follow them to their cars?
I know plenty of people who have money and who have nice cars. If something happened to them tomorrow and they needed a social program, they would still own their nice car. Is there a law that say if a person becomes eligible for food stamps that he or she must give up their car?
exactly. Why are cashiers worried about someones vehicle??? Carry out service at Publix in FL is usually the bag man (whatever they call it) not the cashier. The OP is in florida ,so she obviously has alot of spare time to critique every customer buying food at the store and observing what they drive
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