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Folks On Food Stamps Have Good & Expensive Tastes When it Comes to Food.
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<blockquote data-quote="bettingpython" data-source="post: 1548280" data-attributes="member: 4307"><p>I find that bothersome as well Dennis the real problem is that 2 cart loads of processed crap have a much longer shelf life than fresh vegetables and meats and is not much more expensive for a months supply of food to feed 3 than a weeks worth of fresh organic food is for 3 people. And supermarket fresh vegetables are bland and tasteless as well. The shelf life is an issue is a big one for families on assistance as well. The ones that really do need it tend not to have reliable transportation, I have the luxury of hopping in the truck and running to the store when I want something, we can't buy more than a weeks worth of fresh vegetables and meats from whole foods because all that stuff doesn't take long to go bad. Even when refrigerated, chicken thighs that haven't been soaked and packed in a bunch of preservative fluid go bad in 4 to 5 days. It does no good for a family that is on food stamps that doesn't have reliable transport to buy quality foods. Just a catch 22 of that program. </p><p></p><p>Man I love me some beans with a ham hock for flavor a pan of cornbread and skillet fried potatoes. But I ate it a lot when I was growing up because we were poor. Commodity cheese was my favorite followed closely by the commodity peanut butter, which I wasn't allowed to have after some quack allergy doc said I was allergic to peanuts. Problem is a big old plate of that food is more than I need for calories in all 3 meals and a snack for an entire day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bettingpython, post: 1548280, member: 4307"] I find that bothersome as well Dennis the real problem is that 2 cart loads of processed crap have a much longer shelf life than fresh vegetables and meats and is not much more expensive for a months supply of food to feed 3 than a weeks worth of fresh organic food is for 3 people. And supermarket fresh vegetables are bland and tasteless as well. The shelf life is an issue is a big one for families on assistance as well. The ones that really do need it tend not to have reliable transportation, I have the luxury of hopping in the truck and running to the store when I want something, we can't buy more than a weeks worth of fresh vegetables and meats from whole foods because all that stuff doesn't take long to go bad. Even when refrigerated, chicken thighs that haven't been soaked and packed in a bunch of preservative fluid go bad in 4 to 5 days. It does no good for a family that is on food stamps that doesn't have reliable transport to buy quality foods. Just a catch 22 of that program. Man I love me some beans with a ham hock for flavor a pan of cornbread and skillet fried potatoes. But I ate it a lot when I was growing up because we were poor. Commodity cheese was my favorite followed closely by the commodity peanut butter, which I wasn't allowed to have after some quack allergy doc said I was allergic to peanuts. Problem is a big old plate of that food is more than I need for calories in all 3 meals and a snack for an entire day. [/QUOTE]
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