Make mandatory classes for budget, nutrition and coupon clipping. You are so unrealistic. The majority of receipients are obese. OBESE!! Go to the streets and get a real look at what the real life is. Lots of easy to cook and fast food. Nutrition never plays into the equation.

I don't understand why they continually have babies, knowing damn well they're unable to feed them on their own. Then wonder why they don't have a pot to piss in. There are an abundance of seriously irresponsible democrats out there.

Yep Republicans are good at something, making people poor and needy. They get into office and screw every body, and make more poor and needy. And then bitch about! A lot like how they open the boarders so all that cheap illegal labor comes in and then bitch about illegals. Too bad their followers are chumps and can't see it.

There is a blog out there written by Linda Watson, called "Cook for Good." She has figured out an entirely healthy diet, complete with recipes and menus for people with very low income. She took care to insure that her healthy diet would be covered by food stamp allowances. I highly recommend it for everyone who has either a small budget or would rather put money in the bank.

frenchblue367
7:44AM Dec 1st 2009
affordable stuff that they can get with food stamps is cheaper and they can buy more food, feed more mouths
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Yet they keep creating more of those mouths....This is another example of liberal excess.. to hell with the consequences.

Annnddddd?

You make do. . .
I don't "qualify" for any help, we can't afford 9 servings of fruits and vegis. . .AND I don't think I would have room to eat them all any way. . .
You work it out. . .get off your ass and plant a garden, shop for sales, learn to make your food stretch and QUIT complaining.

We give them enough to buy carts full of food. More and better quality than I can afford. They buy what they want. How much can taxpayers be accountable for...

"Cheaper carbohydrates" are hard to resist when they taste better and cost less. And when the value of the supersized portion is better than the smaller one how can you resist? We need to educate everyone on what they are paying for and maybe we will "gain" some ground.

http://www.medpie.com/nutrition/featured-articles/111809-obesity-movies.html

"Cheaper carbohydrates" are hard to resist when they taste better and cost less. And supersized portions are a better value compared to smaller portions. So we need to educate everyone on what they are eating in order to "gain" some ground.

http://www.medpie.com/nutrition/featured-articles/111809-obesity-movies.html

It's frustrating when you work hard, struggle to pay your bills, then see some democrat buying rib-eyes and King crab with your tax dollars.

Well, $3 a day definitely prices you out of organic, ethically grown, out-of-season blueberries. But you can buy swiss chard, collards, potatoes, carrots and plenty of other simple basic veggies that satisfy your nutritional needs at very little cost.

This is one of the most abused government programs. I live in a rural part on MD. Everytime I go to the grocery store I am behind someone who has a cart of two of frozen dinners, soda, potato chips and other junk food paying for it with food stamps. It is called the Indendence Card here, I call it the Dependence Card! These people are usually wearing clothes I could not afford and would not waste my money on anyway. Then they roll the grocercies out and put them into almost new vehicles. This a a small community and I know where most of these people live and everyone here has a yard. NOT one person I know on food stamps has a garden or raises chickens. But they have satellite tv! One womens card ran out once when I was shopping and she had a fit and had the manager come over and said "You expect me to pay for my own food". I know sometimes people need a little help ant that's ok. But there is way to much abuse and fraud in this system and it has fostered, just like a lot of other government freebies, a sense of independence. The majority of people on this program are liberal democrats and this is a very liberal and democrat state so I don't see things changing unless we get conservative politicians or run out taxpayers. I see the later happening first. In my area these people CHOOSE to eat unhealthy becasue it is much easier to scam the government and walk to the mailbox than it is to grow your own food and do a little canning and freezing.