luvmy3 said:You know what they can spend their entire EBT balance on junk just as long as they don't whine and complain that they aren't getting enough to feed their kids breakfast, lunch and dinner for the month
That's part of the problem. In many areas of the country, their choice is high quality food for 2 or maybe 3 weeks & no money left for food the remaining 1-2 weeks OR cheaper, junkier food that will last the whole month. When you're a single mom working 2 part-time jobs, it's hard choices. She's going to choose buying foods that she can buy enough of to last until her next allotment.
I've been there. Both as a child & as a young adult. Growing up, we ate a lot of pasta, rice and beans. Peanut butter. Super cheap cereals. Oatmeal, grits, cream of wheat. We had corn bread or biscuits with dinner every night because, from scratch, they're cheap methods of adding calories to the meal.
As a young adult with my own children, we ate a lot of the same foods, but I did things to stretch even more. Adding beans to ground beef for tacos or sloppy joes. Things like that. Pasta or rice was always served on, under or beside everything. Beans, from dried, at least once a week. Spaghetti, no meat, at least once a week.
The foods listed are CALORIE dense, not NUTRIENT dense. Big difference.
But we're getting way off topic.
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