Thank you for the link and recipe offers. I wasn’t looking for sympathy either, more appalled at the attitudes of some of our freepers that have zero understanding for those of us that have been hosed by this economy.
This family has paid way more than their fair share of taxes, given to charity, etc, ... I had tears rolling down my face as I stood in the “food stamp” line to apply along side those with tattoos, rings in their noses and eyebrows, etc. Frankly, I stood out like a sore thumb and and felt worse. I can’t remember being so humiliated in my life.
We have managed to hang on by the skin of our teeth, but would not have been able to do so without the food stamps (which we just recently got due to depleting out savings and having nothing left to sell that anyone was willing to purchase off craigslist.) After a year of being unemployed and not being able to find employment, but continuing to pay the bills that have gone up, we are pretty much wiped out. I don’t want sympathy, but would like some of you that are so hateful to those of us in this situation to remember, “There, but for the grace of God, go I.”
Just so you know, I didn’t think I would EVER find myself standing in a line to get a free handout. I always considered this family to have more pride than to do such a thing, but I found that when it comes to feeding one’s children, one will do whatever needs to be done, and that does NOT including putting up my children for adoption as the callous moron suggested previously.
(((HUG)) we will get through this. Feel free to PM if you just want to chat. :)
Back in 72 we moved to a job for my new husband. Within 3 months the job was gone and we were unable to find employment. We shoveled snow, cleaned chickenhouses, tried to find housework, tried for any kind of job and made many up. We used food stamps for six months. It saved us and taugth me to budget food.