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karnythia:

stfuconservatives:

Still think people on food stamps have it too good? Chef Karl Wilder is trying to feed his family on the budget equivalent of what they would receive on food stamps. He’s been documenting his meals on his blog as part of an awareness campaign for the San Francisco Food Bank.

He just finished his two months on a food stamp budget, and he says, “I admit to being bored by it. I am sick of many of the foods that work in this budget. I am ready for it to be over.” He went to the doctor and found that although he’d lost weight, his body fat percentage went up, and his blood sugar, cholesterol and triglyceride levels were all higher.

Still think poor people have it made on food stamps?

The only ways to eat well on a food stamp budget are to a) to sacrifice some of your cash to supplement your purchases, b) have a thriving garden, or c) very generous friends. How many times do we have to have people do this experiment before we admit that the formula for the amount awarded is incredibly flawed & doesn’t take into account the range of food prices in this country, access (or lack thereof) to full fledged grocery stores, potential storage restrictions, dietary needs, or ability levels? I mean really, can we move on to discussing those issues instead of yet another “Eating well when you’re poor is hard” project?