‘Riots always begin typically the same way’: food stamp shutdown looms Friday

Salon ^ | October 28, 2013 | Josh Eidelson

[reed13k]

yeah - I just worry that I’m being too harsh... then I think like I would have at that age and start cleaning the weapons ;)

[reed13k]

Sorry folks wrong thread.

[leapfrog0202]

I had neighbors who had to go on food stamps temporarily years and years ago. They were so embarrassed that they shopped at off hours so no one would see them.

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I think going away from the actual paper food stamps took away a lot of the stigma for people as unless you watch, you have no idea if they are using a debit card or EBT.

If we could get back to the shame days, it would help.

Our niece who is a senior in college tells of a guy in her class that asked her why she had a job. She said she was married and needed to pay for college. She said this guy is from some foreign country and his dad is high up in the government there making a lot of $$$. Because the guy was seen as putting himself through school without a job he got EBT and some other welfare type things. He told her she was a fool for working. What a pathetic statement on where this country is. Kudos to our niece though who told him his attitude sucked and that she felt there was honor in earning your own way in the world.

[Grams A]

One of my problems is that I have a whole lot of really old recipes which call for a certain size package or can of something. So I end up having to buy two and using on part of the second one. I would rather they would leave the size the same and just charge me more which they are already doing but it is for less contents.

Quit buying tuna a long time ago.

Yes - toilet tissue is another whole issue. Single, double or triple roll, single or double ply, or “the equivalent of a double roll”. You have to take a calculator with you to be able to compare. What I’ve found though are a number of on-line sites where you can buy in bulk, there is no delivery fee and often no sales tax. Plus most of them have a really great price break for first time buyers. So I’ve done that with tp, paper towels, dishwashing and laundry soap and the other bulky heavy things like kitty litter and dry cat food. I have managed to accumulate at least a year’s supply at a greatly reduced price.

[bgill]

I hear Subway has gone up to $6-7 for their sandwiches here. McDonald’s came out over the weekend that the $1 menu is no more and now it’s a “$5 value” menu. Sonic’s $1 little jr. burger is now $1.30. As you say, add on chips and a drink, whew. This taxpayer can’t afford those prices but there’s “EBT” signs on their windows.

I like Schlotzsky’s sandwiches but couldn’t justify the price for one for many years. I recently found the recipe online. I can make 4 of their sandwiches for what 1 costs at the drive thru. My family laughs at me for being so excited about it that I tell everyone the recipe. I’ve since tweeked it with a 1/4 C more flour to squeeze out an even 6 buns. Hey, with a little effort, I can now pretend to live high like the EBT crowd!

#16 for the Schlotzsky’s recipe. It reads long but is super easy:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3023748/posts?q=1&;page=1

[entropy12]

You don’t have to cook every day. I usually prepare two different meals each with 3 or 4 servings and eat during the week. I have a sweet tooth so instead of cookies and cakes, I indulge in dried fruit such as apricots, dates, raisins and Marianni prunes.

The food cooked at home is actually tastier, has much less sodium or sugar, and I know what exactly is in it.

[bgill]

I, too, have old cookbooks. I knew the tuna was smaller but it was using an old (not so old - Jeff Smith, the Frugal Gourmet) tuna recipe that noted the cans were 7.5 oz which made me stop and run the numbers. Haven't bought a can since. Tuna used to go on sale during Lent but not so for the past several years.

Today's large eggs are the size of yesterday's small eggs so I usually add an extra one in a baking recipe.

Dinner is on the cheap tonight with on sale cheap store brand sausage and omelets filled with homegrown veggies. We've been having that for dinner a lot this summer but may have to go with beans and cornbread when the garden stops in about 3 weeks. It's good eats so not complaining about that but it irks because of the economy.

[Grams A]

I’ll be over for dinner. Love omelets. Never figured out why the eggs are smaller, even the largest ones are not as large. Can understand manufacturers who are filling cans and boxes but chickens? Grew up on a farm but just can’t figure that one out. Eggs should be eggs.

[leapfrog0202]

Thanks for the recipe! We too love Schlotzsky’s :-)

[Hugin]

It’s not a cut, it is the end of a temporary increase enacted with “Stimulus”

True. And it's only about 5%, not 25%/ Talk of people starving or rioting is hysterical overreaction.

[little jeremiah]

It is essential to clearly understand that there are people in the world who have totally surrendered to evil. 100%. They have chosen evil.

They are ruled by greed, lust and anger; revenge, envy and hatred are their constant companions.

Such people are human only in appearance, and even then, their faces and expressions often reveal their inner consciousness.

Trust such people to be “like me and my friends and relatives” and the mistake may very well be fatal.

[1010RD]

They truly don’t and that is a common theme among the poor and criminals as well. Impatience and the need for immediate gratification are a major cause of failure, poverty and foolishness. Hasn’t God warned us against that?