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Using Food Stamps at Fast Food Places?
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It all comes down to being lazy. We live in a world of frozen sliced vegetables and instant mashed potatoes and ready made rice. You can buy a 10lb sack of potatoes or rice that will feed the family for weeks or you can buy a box of powder or a couple small plastic tubs of rice for the same price that will feed them for one night, all because peeling and boiling some potatoes or boiling 2 cups water/1 cup rice is so difficult and time consuming 
On the other hand I can make a ridiculously huge chicken stew with every main vegetable in it, or a vegetable pasta sauce, or chili, for roughly $10-$12 that will feed my girlfriend and I for 4 meals, or $1.25-$1.50 per serving. We'll have it for two dinners and two lunches or freeze some. It takes a couple hours to make though and a lot of people are simply too lazy or too stupid to be able to accomplish such a thing.
On the other hand I can make a ridiculously huge chicken stew with every main vegetable in it, or a vegetable pasta sauce, or chili, for roughly $10-$12 that will feed my girlfriend and I for 4 meals, or $1.25-$1.50 per serving. We'll have it for two dinners and two lunches or freeze some. It takes a couple hours to make though and a lot of people are simply too lazy or too stupid to be able to accomplish such a thing.
You know - I really don't think it's a crime if a down-and-out or unemployed family can use their food stamps to take the kids to McDonald's once a week to let the kids get a happy meal and run around the play area.
It may even be justified because somebody needs to grab lunch while they are working at their below-subsistence level job or job hunting.
However, a friend of mine is letting some chronically unemployed and broke and in-debt people stay with her - and what frustrates both of us is how they lack sense about simple food purchases.
Example:
A 12 piece bucket of roasted chicken at KFC with fixings is $27. I would figure that a chicken dinner for 4 at a restaurant would run $40 - $50.
A similar amount of chicken and a couple of sides could be simply prepared at home for about $10.
You figure you save the KFC for a really busy day when you just need a break. You save the dinner out for a celebration or weekly night out. ...especially if you have no income!
Not them. They want to pick up food or go out for dinner every day, even though they do not work (my friend does go to work every day, and comes home tired to listen to them ask for dinner).
My friend, who keeps the fridge stocked, is getting very frustrated because they are always asking to go out or get take out.
Maybe they should have some sort of mandatory class in sensible shopping that goes along with the food stamps.
It may even be justified because somebody needs to grab lunch while they are working at their below-subsistence level job or job hunting.
However, a friend of mine is letting some chronically unemployed and broke and in-debt people stay with her - and what frustrates both of us is how they lack sense about simple food purchases.
Example:
A 12 piece bucket of roasted chicken at KFC with fixings is $27. I would figure that a chicken dinner for 4 at a restaurant would run $40 - $50.
A similar amount of chicken and a couple of sides could be simply prepared at home for about $10.
You figure you save the KFC for a really busy day when you just need a break. You save the dinner out for a celebration or weekly night out. ...especially if you have no income!
Not them. They want to pick up food or go out for dinner every day, even though they do not work (my friend does go to work every day, and comes home tired to listen to them ask for dinner).
My friend, who keeps the fridge stocked, is getting very frustrated because they are always asking to go out or get take out.
Maybe they should have some sort of mandatory class in sensible shopping that goes along with the food stamps.
I am with you there. It's not hard to beat the price of eating out, you have to however be willing to prepare your food yourself. Hell even if you don't you'd still save.
All I'm going to say is KFC is going to do A LOT of extra business!
MEAL... Thats the thing... Back when I just got to US, was going to school and all my money went for tuition, all I was eating - top ramen, noodles and mcdonalds.
Double Cheeseburger (used to be $0.99) or McChicken (still is) and a cup of water - $1 for dinner. You can't beat it if you buy bread and lunch meat. On top, it had lettuce, tomato and mayo + they gave like 10 packets of additional mayo and ketchup if you ask for it. lol
Still... Can't beat that. Top ramen and noodles are pretty much the only things that were cheaper. Oh well, throw hot dogs in there... Even mac and cheese and hungry jack crap was more expensive.
No one ever considers the cost of the inevitable long term health issues that arise as a result from consistently eating unhealthy. This idea that eating healthy is more expensive is coming from a rather narrow state of mind.
The potential surgeries, medications, long term health care costs associated with a poor diet are very expensive.
Though I guess the poor don't give a fuck, the tax payers will once again pay their bills.
...yet another incentive to eat like a fucking slob.
The potential surgeries, medications, long term health care costs associated with a poor diet are very expensive.
Though I guess the poor don't give a fuck, the tax payers will once again pay their bills.
...yet another incentive to eat like a fucking slob.
It all comes down to being lazy. We live in a world of frozen sliced vegetables and instant mashed potatoes and ready made rice. You can buy a 10lb sack of potatoes or rice that will feed the family for weeks or you can buy a box of powder or a couple small plastic tubs of rice for the same price that will feed them for one night, all because peeling and boiling some potatoes or boiling 2 cups water/1 cup rice is so difficult and time consuming
On the other hand I can make a ridiculously huge chicken stew with every main vegetable in it, or a vegetable pasta sauce, or chili, for roughly $10-$12 that will feed my girlfriend and I for 4 meals, or $1.25-$1.50 per serving. We'll have it for two dinners and two lunches or freeze some. It takes a couple hours to make though and a lot of people are simply too lazy or too stupid to be able to accomplish such a thing.
^This.
Very easy, cheap, nutritious and tastes very good with the proper recipes.
Are you saying they deserve steak?
I work hard to make good money but I haven't bought steak in a long time.
Where's my steak?
When you are really poor, its either some food or no food. Back when USSR fell apart and the lines to get a loaf of bread were bigger than the lines at popular clubs here, it was a treat to get a piece of bread, put a slice of tomato and some salt on top of it.
When you think about it, eating healthy is not the only thing. I was eating mcd almost every day for 2 years, yet I was never overweight. I was walking more than half of the posters here combined. Either one thing or another, there is always something you do wrong. For some here it may be sitting, typing and moving your mouse around 10/7... Not healthy... From carpal tunnel to diabetes... Looking at monitor all day... Not healthy...
It's just that some people are either stupid, don't know or don't care. Can't give them unlimited mcd pass... I also find it funny when I walk into mcd and someone in front of me orders a large meal, 2 extra cheeseburgers and a diet coke. And I see it almost every time I go... :-/
And you think this is healthy? Chicken... If it's not an organic chicken, do you know that most countries ban US chicken exports due to the hormones and the way they make em here? That US chicken was proven to be one the most unhealthiest product to buy back when it was allowed? Also, $1.25-$1.50 still doesn't beat $1 mcd mcChicken serving.
Freeze some? Frozen vegetables... How is that healthy? Once again, are those organic? Just trying to say that all complaining here are not eating healthy anyway.
Who here doesn't go to mcd/jack in a box/etc? Throw your daily menu in here...
There's way more to health and nutrition than just what you weigh though. Even if you can stay skinny, eating mcds ain't the best idea.
I agree, not the best... but not worse than buying cheap bread with the cheap hormone chicken, ketchup and mayo on it and making a sammich... Just because poor people eat at fast food, it doesn't make fast food worse food than what they eat at home. I just think if people should complain what poor people should and shouldn't buy is the damn soda.
yeah except food stamps includes almost anything at the damn grocery store. steaks, sushi (yes I've seen this purchased on SNAP), etc. stop being an idiot.
I saw a guy in his late teens/early twenties and his Mom (presumably) walk into 7-Eleven and buy chips, candy and slurpees with EBT (food stamps), then whip out a bundle of cash and spend $40 on cigarettes.
Yeah, but that's somewhat assuming you have all the smaller ingredients already. You'll maybe want some oregano, cayenne pepper, garlic, salt & pepper, butter / olive oil, parsley, maybe some bread, cheese, etc. There's no way someone without anything in their kitchen can make a nice, good tasting, 8 serving chicken stew for $12.
For example, I recently got pissed off because any food I put in the fridge usually disappeared within 24 hours, so I bought my own fridge, and stuck it in my home office. Went shopping, cost me about $250, and 5 days later I had to go back for more. Granted, next time was only $10, but still...
we are the one species encouraging our devolution, presumably for the great culling of humanity. its going to be your fucking religion. bwah hah hah hah.
And you think this is healthy? Chicken... If it's not an organic chicken, do you know that most countries ban US chicken exports due to the hormones and the way they make em here? That US chicken was proven to be one the most unhealthiest product to buy back when it was allowed? Also, $1.25-$1.50 still doesn't beat $1 mcd mcChicken serving.
Just trying to say that all complaining here are not eating healthy anyway.
Who here doesn't go to mcd/jack in a box/etc? Throw your daily menu in here...
Do you even understand the concept or organic foods? Organic is a marketing tool. Although it is beneficial to eat certain organic items, most it doesn't really matter at all.