Why can't I live off $29?

>apples
>cheap

theyre both expensive and nutritionally nearly worthless

pineapples are way better, but even oranges are cheaper

looks good to me, that's enough beans and rice to get me through a week.

>not stocking up on cambells chunky and huge bags of rice
jeez people are stupid

Yeah, might vary depending on where you live.

Because the gated community hollywood elite said you can't.

you can do $10/week pretty easy

bread + peanut butter + jelly + eggs + ramen + rice + beans + tortillas

You could even fit some fresh vegetables in there. Cabbages and carrots are cheap as dirt.

OK well I do this shopping a lot, and I'm good with numbers so:
bread 2.98 10 servings
peanut butter 3.00 10 servings
jelly 2.00 10 servings
eggs 2.00 4 servings (if it's a dozen)
ramen 5.00 25 servings
rice 5.00 8 servings (assuming a cup of rice/meal)
beans .79 3 servings
tortillas 3.00 12 servings

a serving here is the amount needed in a meal

And this is before any cheese (which is necessary for tortillas), you aren't getting any vegetables or fruits (no, jelly does not really count), and most of your diet is starches
You're looking at approximately 2 meals a day of very simple foods
its really not pretty easy

you'd have to look for better sources, from either farmers markets or something similar

people do realize food stamps aren't supposed to just go and pay for everything, right? you are still supposed to use your own money, the government assistance is just supposed to help supplement the shortcomings

I don't think these "29 challenge" (or whatever it's called) people understand this. I also don't think they are going to do anything to actually improve the diet of poor people, or that they really care that much. they just do this to get attention.

It's a $29 SUBSIDY. It's not meant to cover the entire bill. Fucking SNAP ("food stamps")'s first word is "supplemental."

For fuck's sake. I can excuse some rich cunt paid millions to play pretend not knowing this but the amount of people who just hop on the bandwagon to show how compassionate they are are brutally stupid.

where the hell is that $29? even at whole foods that's not $29

it says safeway on the bean and rice bags, and she is probably in southern california.

but seriously, who buys just one tomato or just one onion or just one sweet potato? she probably bought a couple of each of those and it came up to $29.

Jesus, food is cheap in America

It really is. I spend maybe $100 a month at the store, and most of that is chicken and very little carbs because of Veeky Forums. A jar of peanut butter/jelly, loaf of bread, canned veggies, milk, eggs, and several lbs of chicken. Most of that will last longer than a week and I still haven't gone over $25

Just an FYI that's horribly inaccurate. I've been unemployed for a while because of injuries while I worked at US as an a.m. preloader. Workman's comp only took care of hospital bills an union was no help. My wife, child and myself are on snap in Virginia and we get $511 per month for food. The amount you get depends on the state you live in as well as how much income you have. My father in law in PA only gets 200 for example, but food is cheaper where he lives. Also to dispel another myth, benefits are no longer "food stamps" it's a card like a debit card, EBT. Makes it an automated system that prevents people from buying liquor as people think is done. Also means you can't buy cooked food like pizzas and those rotisserie chickens at walmart, has to be uncooked, or cold food like sandwiches.

Stupid typo... UPS...

As a single person who gets $194 a month from SNAP, that sounds like a load of shit.

>can only spend 30 bucks a week
>buy six limes

In what world does a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly only do 10 sandwiches? It could probably do triple that, if not more.

>beans
>cilantro
>six limes

Someone needs to make one with grape koolaid, frozen fried chicken and several watermelons

Gwyneth Paltrow is a fucking retard.

stupid woman

There are no Safeways in SoCal. That's up north. We have Vons down here.

why is she buying low calorie food on a budget?

Because she is a patronizing idiot.

Or because she purposefully chose those foods to make it look like you can't feed yourself with $29.

>nutritionally nearly worthless
this is SUCH a shit meme. Apples have a ton of nutrients and are an ideal travelers food. Apples are only considered so worthless because whenever diet fads find a meme fruit they compare it in some favorable way to apples. Why do they compare them to apples? because apples are great

>mfw

>Born on third base and thinks she hit a triple.

Eating off of almost nothing is easy. Carbs are piss cheap.

Eating a healthy and tasty diet of meat, fruit, and veggies is where a lack of income can really kick your ass.

I'd say that assistance should be far more geared towards low income than no income.

My aunt (I'm not going to try to claim that her life situation wasn't completely her fault; she would have agreed) actually lost money by choosing to work her low income job rather than quit and go on welfare. She wouldn't have gotten evicted several times if she had taken welfare baby route.

Someone should never make less money than they could be making by choosing to work.

>very little carbs
>peanut butter
>jelly
>loaf of bread

:^)

This, here in the UK the welfare system is abused badly.

A couple on the right benefits can easily take home more than a couple who work full time for minimum wage.

It fucking sickens me.

Sounds like a problem with the minimum wage

The minimum wage is fine, people have enough money to pay the bills, feed themselves and have money left over for a few luxuries.

But on the right benefits a couple can easily take home over £30,000 a year (about $45,000).

>Prevents people from buying liquor

My fucking ass. Here in michigan three quarters of the liquor stores have big ass signs saying they take ebt for anything, and the ones that dont have the signs still do it. Shit, I have known drug dealers who let people pay with ebt as well. And I dont just mean in the seedy areas and ghettos either. Dont buy the bullshit.

I don't know what stuff costs where you live. Where I live, that's enough to rent a cheap windowless room and have a monthly bus pass and eat cheap, monotonous garbage every day. With nothing going to savings and no cushion to handle an unexpected expense

Basically, one medical crisis away from living on the streets.

The fact remains though that the vast majority on SNAP didn't apply for it until there income dropped to $0. Sure, some people are working poor, and use SNAP as it is intended. But you don't really think about it until you no longer have ANY money to feed yourself and your kids. And I don't know where dear Gweneth get's her data from, but here in Cali a family of four would be getting closer to $100 a week.

This is the UK, healthcare is free at the point of contact.

That is more than enough money to survive on.

You trying to convince a socialist? Don't waste your time. They are broken.

I know, bitching about $45,000 a year being not enough to live on.

ITS FREE FUCKING MONEY

29 dollars is just enough for me.
It's a 25 dollar donation to go to my local food bank. And I can get all sorts of goodies.
This bitch would never survive being poor.

Hell, before my mother knew about food banks we ran on cup Ramen, and ham sandwiches. You don't need luxuries like seven limes to live.

>It's free money
What do you rethugnicans think welfare is for? There's no point in giving away money if it's not enough to achieve the goal of the welfare program

If you're going to call for eliminating the program that's one thing, but half assing it is a waste of money, it's like buying a $150m fighter jet and then not buying the missiles because you're trying to be frugal

First, protip if you highlight the text and then click the post number it will automatically quote the highlighted text for you.

Second, I wouldn't call giving out a shit-ton of money half assing it, but it doesn't have the effect of actually getting people back into work.

>it doesn't have the effect of getting people back to work
That's an entirely different argument though. A program has to be evaluated on its ROI, but fucking with the numbers after it's been rolled out on a simplistic argument like 'lmao free money' is one of the reasons there's so much waste, it's like you small gubmint types are out to sabotage government so you can support your religious belief that corporate feudalism is the One True System

Also fuck your protips

You're an actual retard because if you pay attention to what i was saying i agree with you.

Please put some skill points into reading comprehension.

All I saw was 'lmao poors are ungrateful they should be happy to get anything', that isn't the same as saying a program's effectiveness is as important as its cost

food stamps is the best thing ever its like 1% of the federal budget but feeds 50 million people

and i buy clean water with it

i would be dead without foodstamps as a neet with social anxiety and with no money

I was saying that people on benefits get too much.

It isn't like in america where they get redeemable foodstamps. Here you are given cash, paid into your bank account and it can be used for whatever you want.

If some shithead wants to go out and buy a load of drugs he can do that, the government and the taxpayers just have to hope that he is actually buying food and trying to get himself into work.

You think that i'm laughing at poor people so i'll give you a real life example, I know a couple who both work full time. One as a chef and the other as a secretary, the secretaries sister is on benefits and so is her husband.

The sister and her husband take home more money per year in benefits than the working couple.

It is disgraceful.

because you could panhandle in the streets to supplement your income and make more than 29 bucks in a day.

oh but oil is high in calories, who would buy that?

.. the same people that buy that box of 1000 cookies for 2 bucks.

nigga we can't eat fresh green veggies.

she just went shopping for furnishings and realized that is what poor people must eat.

garnishings...

This. I live off about $50 a week. I eat really well. Steelcut oats for days and then build from there. Every day steel cut oats, maybe a serving of lentils too. And then make all of my stuff from scratch. Totillas, cookies, pizza, all from scratch. And I eat organic as much as I can. I still make ends meet.

yeah, bread is REALLY high in carbs... how can you say you eat little carbs when you eat a whole loaf of bread and a entire jar of peanut butter!!!!!

HEY EVERYONE I THINK THIS GUY IS A LIAR.

you know, he might have a pbj sandwich for lunch... and that is the only carbs besides the veggies...

it's not a sin to have 100g of carbs a day.

requesting tortilla recipe

>$5.00 for 8 servings of rice
Where I live I can get a 20lb bag for $8.00, which is much more than 8 servings

Sorry to disappoint but its really simple. Add flavor to you specifications.
tasteofhome.com/recipes/homemade-tortillas

Don't knead it as many times as they say. It will be way to touch. I'd say knead it like 3 times max.

Some of us have jobs and also don't live with our parents, so we can't spend hours a day making food from scratch.

What I'm hearing is that I have the better part of life. I know.

Wageslave BTFO

i live of 2 shakes a day and a meal of whateever the fuck i have, for now its shit load of potatoes, but the joke is i fucking love potatoes

for the shake half a liter of milk, like 25 g of oats a banana and whatever discount fruit there was at the store

i do live with my parents but im a sobering alcoholic and have no money for booze so thats a blessing

also not amurica

Here in Canada, at my local store, Peanut Butter is $8, even at walmart it's $5

protip: don't have kids

You will eat like a king everyday if you avoid having children. Hell you could order a large $20 pizza and eat cheetos and mountain dew all day long if you wanted to.

I'm a single NEET and I get $194/mo for SNAP.

I'm able to buy pretty much whatever I want within reason.

My only complaint about the program isn't really a complaint: I think poor people would benefit a lot more if they could buy cookware/foil/saran wrap/tupperware... that kind of thing. It makes it a lot more difficult to eat cheaply if you don't have the ability to prepare many raw foods and/or store leftovers and unused portions.

I mean it's not that difficult to get cookware from yard sales/goodwill, but I think the money society gives people for food would stretch that much more if they could also buy the things they need to make stuff from scratch.

I'm torn between wanting to eat cheap, or eat low calorie. Either I save money or I gain pounds.

every time we have this thread

>poors should eat nothing but unseasoned beans and rice
>poors also always have working and in order stoves, refrigerators, freezers, rodent safe pantries, and plenty of time to "just make your own bread, tortillas, and watch a simmering pot of beans for eight hours" in between both of their jobs

No, that makes a lot of sense. Cutting soda and candy off the EBT allowed foods and adding in toilet paper and soap would also be a good idea.

What, so poor people aren't allowed limes or herbs, or leafy greens?

The point of the post wasn't for us to bitch at what poor people should be buying or shouldn't be buying with the $29 they are entitled to.

>too lazy to work, leech off other people
>spend their money like a dumbass
>complain about how unfair it is

If you want to limes, herbs or leafy greens, work for your own money

If you don't like it, leave the country. This is how things work. The government says it's okay so you have to hush your hateful mouth.

>welfare
>$15/hr minimum wage and healthcare obligations with laws preventing underworking employees to skirt benefits

pick one, family. do you want the underclass subsidized by the government or do you want corporations actually paying their employees?

Besides the eggs, i wouldn't take any of that shit for free from the government

>pick one, family. do you want the underclass subsidized by the government or do you want corporations actually paying their employees?

You're forgetting the third and fourth options:
>Pretending your society can function without poor people
>Just not worrying about it and letting them all die and/or violently revolt

I get like $450 a month for food stamps, helps out a ton.

Pretty sure if their comfy leeching money dried up they would find ways to make money and not revolt. the problem is clearly she thinks she's entitled to live off of the government which is insane.

>Sorry to disappoint but its really simple.

>disappoint
>simple

fuck, i was looking for a complex recipe that involved summoning la abuela from beyond the grave

but for reals, thanks

thats horseshit

i get 290$ on snap because unemployed and my husband is only part time

that would last me two days if i dont excersize

No problem, famiglia. I love you.

29 a week? that's actually a lot I do about 29 a month for food and i'm pretty content.

Are you living in SE asia?

poor people die of scurvy because they don't eat enough fruit. by sucking the juice from a lime every day they can help get back to normal

no i'm just happy eating pasta most of the time

She is a semivegetarian who normally has hired cooks prepare her food. She is kinda known for being out of touch, it is a brand she markets.

the glorious dub dub trips speak the truth

The judging that goes around from the safety of your parents' basements are getting a bit much desy.

and 290 a month divided by 5 weeks is???

Not the person you were talking to, but...

The average month has 4.35 weeks. And $290 divided by 4.35 is about $66.67. More than twice the amount in the OP.

>having to choose between welfare and minimum wage
yeah, it`s not like you can get a job that doesn`t involve either flipping burgers or scrubbing skid-marks off toilets.

but then again, i bet you never considered education because it required stuff like self-dicipline and consistency

That is 16 dollars worth of food, TOPS.

Looks to be about twice the OP quote from a glance.

nigga it's 99¢ for a bag og frozen vegetables, and $15 for a huge family sized bag of Purdue chicken.After that, hell, get some yams for 75¢ a piece or or that cheap $1 bread.Also canned stuffs are only about 50¢ to a dollar.In high school they always did this guilt trip thing to put you in the scenario of a homeless or very poor person for no reason, they'd just make you do it.They'd give you assignments just like these with limited budgets and such or how to manage time to get your family n shit.Always easy especially with these budget things.

ok that sounded wrong, it's not easy being homeless but the assignments were.I'm pretty sure you guys get that.