Things That Piss Me Off: Food stamp recipients pinched by high food prices
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I wrote about this last week but the continued coverage of those who receive food stamps is starting to piss me off. Forgive me as I am a bit hormonal, but come on! Food stamps were never meant to be the whole food budget, it is supposed to be a supplement! If I read one more story about how they are feeling the pinch from only receiving $300+ for a family of 3 when there are a plethora of FREE or low cost food programs in their city I am going to SCREAM!
Those of us who work for and spend that money are paying taxes on it and they are not. I am also assuming that if you are able bodied enough to go to the supermarket then you can get a part time job to make up for the difference!
- Work at the supermarket for a discount
- Go to the food banks BEFORE food runs out so that you can plan your meals for the month
- Cook smaller meals, most of us are eating 3 times the amount of food we need to live
- Save leftovers
I am usually on the side of the folks that are on welfare because there are some who truly need it. However, the ones that try to work the government to the end that ALL their expenses are paid for and then cry foul when prices go up instead of trying to get a job to make up the difference, frankly, well pisses me off.
My advice?
SPARE ME AND GET A JOB!
This article really offends me. I am a 34 year-old woman who has been permanentally disabled for more than 9 years. I have two children and recieve social security. The only thing I recieve from my government is 145.00 in stamps and insurance for my girls only. I also have to spend cash money on food to make it a whole month. You tell me where I can go to spend my cash money, cause when I go to the grocery store I come out with three and if I am lucky four bags of food for my 200.00 cash money. Is that fair?
Angela, if you google coupon forums and coupon boards I am sure you can find some good ones. I am sorry that you can only get 3 or 4 bags of groceries for $200. I want to brag about a recent trip I had to Walgreens.
2 gallons of milk
2 loaves of bread
2 boxes of cereal (used coupon $1 off 2)
2 bags of chips (on sale buy one, get one free)
4 bags of snack mix ($1 coupons, sale price $1 so FREE)
misc fillers (used a store coupon and would have had a negative balance)
My oop (out of pocket) total???
79 CENTS!
I had a coupon where I saved $10 when I purchased $30. What I did was buy 2 diabetic meters (some people get these just to make a great deal, but I am prediabetic and my husband’s sugar is high so we’re monitoring it) at $14.99 each, then used 2 free coupons (found in the Sunday paper). Then the $10 off part gave me my groceries for almost free. I did this twice. My first total was 70c and 2nd was 9c. The difference was I did not divide my order in half (the chips were BOGO so I had to buy together) and the “filler” I used on the first order cost about 40c more than the one I used for the second order.
I have my mom and my ex husband’s mom (LOL, imagine that) save me their coupons. I also go to a coupon clippers site and get some there. And, my area has a free paper on Saturdays that has coupons in it. I went from $250,000 annually from investments to nothing overnight! I’ve maxed out borrowing against my stocks. If I sell them, I owe capital gains (and that is considered income), if I don’t sell them I am worth too much. Either way, I don’t qualify for FS, but am dead broke. I got my degree in education, opted not to student teach, am not certified, enrolled in an alternative certification program last summer, and have been looking for a teaching position for 11 months. And, for the record, I was diagnosed with CHF 14 years ago at age 25. (CHF is Congestive Heart Failure for those who don’t know.)
To everyone reading…
My 12 YO daughter wanted Taco Bell the other day and my 14 YO son asked, “Do you know how much mac & cheese and peanuts mom could buy with that buck?” I had just gone shopping. Got 4 jars of nuts, 6 boxes of mac & cheese, and 1 bag of Ramen noodles for ONE PENNY!!! Sooooo, your kids DO learn from you! Think about what you want “passed down”.
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Do what the rest of us who have to actually pay for our food do. Cut back on how much you buy,purchase cheaper things,do without certain items,use coupons.
Welfare DOES require you to get a job after so many months, or they terminate your benefits…Honestly, I think they should do the same with people who receive EBT benefits, although the people that receive these benefits are not ALL jobless. But, the program does encourage some people to sit at home on their butts. But, I do agree, there are some people who REALLY need it, and some who abuse the privilege. For instance, I once saw this woman buy over 10 boxes of candy canes with food stamps. That irked me. Obviously, she didn't need to be on food stamps. Also, not every person on food stamps is jobless. They just don't make enough to pay for food, bills, mortgage/rent, car notes, children, etc. I was on food stamps to help me through college, while holding down a full-time job.
i know someone that got 8000.00dollar back on there taxes and still get foodstamps and they are just blowing the money on flat screen tv and stuff they do need why do they not have to pay the foodstamp back i think this is bullshit