When my family had to use food stamps we wound up with enough that shopping well we had a surplus for when we were back on our feet. I see people on here complain about how people on food stamps buy steak. Yeah. I did that too. When it was on sale. The same way I still buy steak.
Yeah, I was on them too, when I first was forced to move back here to fight for custody of my kids, and I shopped the same way.
Here's the thing: you and I were buying FOOD. Lettuce, apples, cereal, meat, potatoes, and I've seen other women who shop like that. You can tell the difference: women like that are neater, and their kids are cleaner and better kept. And THEN there are the obese individuals with the stringy hair and misbehaved children using food stamps buy bags of candy, a couple of 2 liter bottles of soda, and all manner of expensive, prepackaged food that will last her piggy self and her kids MAYBE two weeks. They're the ones who AREN'T temporarily having a hard time and woking to change that. There seem to be more of the latter than the former at the beginning of the month.