Foods most often purchased with SNAP $$$

[Kyle]

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.

My sincerest condolences to you for your EBT’s shortages, but perhaps if you had a genuine skill, you couldn’t get a job that would pay enough for you to live without public sustenance.

perhaps if you set aside a little bit of the money, you normally spend on drugs and alcohol, you could afford real food.

 

[Bare-ya-cuda]

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.

Once those items are purchased withSNAP they break out the stack of cash and buy cartons of cigarettes. Seen it many time in the callaway Wei’s/former food lion.

 

[glhs837]

Once those items are purchased with SNAP they break out the stack of cash and buy cartons of cigarettes. Seen it many time in the callaway Wei’s/former food lion.

Which cash they get by selling the stuff they are buying with the card. I remember learning about this from the crew of "justice involved" guy I worked with for 30 days pulling com and network cables in 2185 and 2187 after getting out of the Navy.

JI 1: "Hey man, it's the 30th, you got your fityfourhunnerd all set?"
JI 2: Yep, gave her the list, paydays today, good to go
Ignant Sailor (me): 5400, whats that?
JI 1 and JI 2: Whaa?
Me: What does it being the 30th and payday have to do with 5,400?

After laughing at the 32 year old sheltered sailor, they explained that they were saying fifty for one hundred. That was the going exchange rate. You built a shopping list of whatever amount, and your favorite EBT honey would buy it for you and you give her cash at half what it cost. She gets cash for liquor, smokes, nails, whatever, and you cut your grocery bill in half. Win Win. Not for us paying taxes, of course.

 

[Kinnakeet]

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.

Is Beer on there somewhere I mean it has a lot of healthy stuff in it

 

[vraiblonde]

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.

He said the exact same thing you just said. Why don't you try reading posts before you respond to them?

 

[Monello]

After laughing at the 32 year old sheltered sailor, they explained that they were saying fifty for one hundred. That was the going exchange rate. You built a shopping list of whatever amount, and your favorite EBT honey would buy it for you and you give her cash at half what it cost. She gets cash for liquor, smokes, nails, whatever, and you cut your grocery bill in half. Win Win. Not for us paying taxes, of course.

I first saw this at 15 years old working in the neighborhood deli. At that time, food stamps came in booklets. My boss was paying $80 for $100. There was no shortage of people selling food stamps. My old neighborhood had a lot of blue collar guys in unions. I guess when they were between union jobs they qualified for assistance. But for the most part they lived pretty good lives from what I could tell. 1 guy drove up to exchange his stamps in his Cadillac. I know that sounds cliche, but it really happened.

FWIW, I started this thread to point out how many food items are purchased with assistance that for the most part are junk foods and what I consider to be outside the realm of what a nutrition program should include.

 

[glhs837]

I first saw this at 15 years old working in the neighborhood deli. At that time, food stamps came in booklets. My boss was paying $80 for $100. There was no shortage of people selling food stamps. My old neighborhood had a lot of blue collar guys in unions. I guess when they were between union jobs they qualified for assistance. But for the most part they lived pretty good lives from what I could tell. 1 guy drove up to exchange his stamps in his Cadillac. I know that sounds cliche, but it really happened.

FWIW, I started this thread to point out how many food items are purchased with assistance that for the most part are junk foods and what I consider to be outside the realm of what a nutrition program should include.

I recall there was a push years back to limit what types of food you could get with it and the "Yooooooo RAYCISSSSSSSSS!!!!!!": crowd shut that down pretty quick.

 

[Squiddie]

My sincerest condolences to you for your EBT’s shortages, but perhaps if you had a genuine skill, you couldn’t get a job that would pay enough for you to live without public sustenance.

perhaps if you set aside a little bit of the money, you normally spend on drugs and alcohol, you could afford real food.

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