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I would like to know exactly what he bought. I bet I could do better. Plus if you combined that with what you could get a one or two food banks, I bet you would eat OK.
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He's probably just getting a preview of what we hope doesn't happen: A leftist-controlled, Marxist society filled with no jobs and plenty of food stamps.
I would like to know exactly what he bought. I bet I could do better. Plus if you combined that with what you could get a one or two food banks, I bet you would eat OK.
For my family of 5 that would be $145 a week. We spend less than that a week on groceries, and I buy nice food. Whole grains, nothing with HFCS, etc. I buy some of our fresh produce through a CSA since it's a great price, heathly, and local. I do my grocery shopping at one of the nicest stores around here b/c they have the best produce and don't add hormones to their milk and meat. If people are living on soda, chips, and Ramen noodles from Walmart, than honestly, it's because they aren't making any effort.
We do eat out a couple of times a week, but if we couldn't afford to do so, we would be fine. We don't need to budget for groceries, but I hate wasting money. Anyone with a lick of sense and some willingness to budget should be able to feed a family of 5 well on $600 per month (or a family of 4 on $480, etc.).
Last edited by brentwoodgirl; 09-24-2012 at 07:19 PM..
For my family of 5 that would be $145 a week. We spend less than that a week on groceries, and I buy nice food. Whole grains, nothing with HFCS, etc. I buy some of our fresh produce through a CSA since it's a great price, heathly, and local. I do my grocery shopping at one of the nicest stores around here b/c they have the best produce and don't add hormones to their milk and meat. If people are living on soda, chips, and Ramen noodles from Walmart, than honestly, it's because they aren't making any effort.
We do eat out a couple of times a week, but if we couldn't afford to do so, we would be fine. We don't need to budget for groceries, but I hate wasting money. Anyone with a lick of sense and some willingness to budget should be able to feed a family of 5 well on $600 per month (or a family of 4 on $480, etc.).
Easily. Ten years ago I fed five of us for @ $90 a week. We did have a freezer to take advantage of specials, but we ate well.
Today we still spend about the same for two of us, but we buy things like seafood that used to be considered once-in-a-while luxury items.
Brown rice, dried beans, onions, celery, bell peppers, tomato sauce, a few spices, and you can eat well and healthy for $29 a week. Or you can splurge on a lobster and starve the rest of the week. It's all about making good choices.
Part of the problem and I've personally experienced this a lot of people get mad or madder because you made healthier choices with food stamps. Especially if they say they can't but seriously I buy things like pinto beans and other dried beans, brown rice or whole grain rice, onions, garlic powder stuff to spice it up with. I eat on that for 3-4 days, I also eat oatmeal most mornings and it's the big tubs not that individual pack crap that's so expensive. You would think people would prefer I get my health back as I have health issues. We do have a freezer for when we find sales on meats or frozen vegetables. My mom and I went in together a few years ago when I was working and got one. I think it's a good thing to be frugal, I've not been on food stamps and I've been on food stamps but I've honestly always tried to eat healthy and frugally. Of course I think part of it is my parents were elderly and I had a lot of siblings by the time I came along and I watched my parents be frugal. Plus we worked in other people's gardens and stuff for the food or would clean houses or mow yards, etc. for money to help out. My dad died when I was 13 he had been on SSDI a few years but mainly he worked himself into the ground working literally 3 jobs a day. I'm a moderate on this issue and think there should be help for people but also accountability.
I would like to know exactly what he bought. I bet I could do better. Plus if you combined that with what you could get a one or two food banks, I bet you would eat OK.
He said frozen chicken and pasta made up most of his purchase. He probably also bought some pasta sauce.
That doesn't leave a whole lot left over so remember that next time you hear some RWNJ claiming people on food stamps are supposedly eating steak and lobster every day.
Our current grocery bills are around $50 per week each. Just eliminating salty snacks makes that easy.
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