Foods most often purchased with SNAP $$$

Monello

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You would think a program designed for better nutrition for its' participants would limit the amounts of junky foods that could be purchased. The fact that soda is the number one item purchased shows that a disproportionate amount of folks using food stamps are making lousy nutritional choices.

The S in SNAP means supplemental. Why not eliminate the ability to purchase low value foods with SNAP? They can always use their other food money for crappy snacks. I think a lot of people view food stamps as the total for their food budget. I wonder if DOGE is going to address this. It would seem like low hanging fruit if the government wants to see its' welfare money put to better use.

I'm glad that ground beef & chicken are in the top 10 of items purchased. I would have thought eggs would have been in the top 10 also. Rice/pasta are surprisingly absent from the list too. I guess nobody is making casseroles anymore. Not a single fruit or vegetable listed either.

Y'all enjoy your lunch now.
 
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OccamsRazor

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I remember clearly "back in the day" of helping out an elderly AA woman that lived next door to my house. This was late 80s maybe early 90s. I would accompany her to the local market to grocery shop. At that time, the SNAP benefit was called 'Food Stamps' and they came in a coupon pack.
I remember clearly that there were certain foods that were AUTHORIZED for purchase with those coupons and many other foods that were NOT. Most authorized foods were meats (not pre-cut lunch meats), milk, eggs, cheese (not pre-cut of blocked cheese), and only certain types of cereals.
She had to be very picky when it came to using those coupons. I remember only a few times that the cashier would tell her that she could not use the coupons to buy a certain item.
At the time I had no idea what the coupons were or what they represented other than coupons for buying food.
She was such a nice woman though...
 
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Merlin99

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Monello said:
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food choices

You would think a program designed for better nutrition for its' participants would limit the amounts of junky foods that could be purchased. The fact that soda is the number one item purchased shows that a disproportionate amount of folks using food stamps are making lousy nutritional choices.

The S in SNAP means supplemental. Why not eliminate the ability to purchase low value foods with SNAP? They can always use their other food money for crappy snacks. I think a lot of people view food stamps as the total for their food budget. I wonder if DOGE is going to address this. It would seem like low hanging fruit if the government wants to see its' welfare money put to better use.

I'm glad that ground beef & chicken are in the top 10 of items purchased. I would have thought eggs would have been in the top 10 also. Rice/pasta are surprisingly absent from the list too. I guess nobody is making casseroles anymore. Not a single fruit or vegetable listed either.

Y'all enjoy your lunch now.
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Would it be categorized as vegetables or broken out as:
corn
carrots
lettuce
onions
Because if you look at my shopping list vegetables would be third on the list, but if you broke them out it would be at the bottom.
 
SamSpade

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Merlin99 said:
Would it be categorized as vegetables or broken out as:
corn
carrots
lettuce
onions
Because if you look at my shopping list vegetables would be third on the list, but if you broke them out it would be at the bottom.
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I think if you had looked at MY normal shopping list when my kids were SMALL - it would have looked a lot like that EXCEPT - thank God we've just never been a fan of soft drinks or soda. Just never have it and I do attribute much of my kid's health to the fact that they almost never have soda. We have and continue to have a water cooler.

Snacks would have been a LITTLE lower, but we bought them for their lunches, so lots of Lance crackers and that kind of snack. Bagging their lunches was the only way we had any idea they were eating them. We didn't and don't buy candy. Not when you still have a boy whose mouth wouldn't pass a metal detector - and one of my girls arrived in this country with almost no teeth intact.
 
gemma_rae

gemma_rae

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A 12 pack of 12oz cans of national brand soda is $10-$12, you tell your Home Boy you can get them for $6 if he pays cash. Go buy them with your Independence card and sell them to Homie for cash. Now you have Lotto money. Easy, peasy, Japaneasy!

The Ghetto Barter system is why those numbers are skewed.
 
vraiblonde

vraiblonde

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Spending their SNAP bucks on.....water. That you can get for free out of the tap.

Water.
 
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OccamsRazor

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Did this include Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) benefit? Is that still a thing??
Seeing as Infant Formula was on the list.
 
gemma_rae

gemma_rae

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Merlin99 said:
but it's not like they have a lot of excess cash and don't have the same independence card.
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Yes, they do have cash. They are allowed to earn an income up to a certain threshold and still receive benefits.

I know because a former co-worker of mine would request, and literally beg for, time off without pay every week because her weekly salary was too close to the threshold.
 
Gilligan

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gemma_rae said:
Yes, they do have cash. They are allowed to earn an income up to a certain threshold and still receive benefits.

I know because a former co-worker of mine would request, and literally beg for, time off without pay every week because her weekly salary was too close to the threshold.
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She's probably the one that sent us the bogus $54,000 FIOS upgrade quote.
 
Squiddie

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Monello said:
The S in SNAP means supplemental. Why not eliminate the ability to purchase low value foods with SNAP? They can always use their other food money for crappy snacks.
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You're almost there, but you should be looking at the letter right next to it.

The N in SNAP is for Nutritional. Soft drinks, bag snacks, frozen handheld/snacks, etc. often have little to no nutritional value.

The amount of trailer trash that I've seen freak out that their SNAP/EBT handouts have either run dry or haven't been refilled on time is astounding.
 
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