20% of food stamps spent on soda & junk food.

[chazus]

The system can already distinguish what you can and cannot buy. Beer for example.

WIC is the same way. It is very specific in what you can buy. (milk, cheese, formula for example) WIC won't allow you to buy a steak.

Yeah. And WIC is an awful system. People hate it, because of all the administrative hoops one has to jump through, and it fails regularly because of the logistical factor.

So much time and money is spent on specifying, that the total budget is wasted.

Doing an audit on every little thing takes tens of thousands of hours of manpower. Costing more than you'd be saving.

[Raskayz]

Buying bottled water over using a re-usable filter right on the sink faucet is a waste of money.

https://www.amazon.com/faucet-mount-...node=680337011

Countless filters for under $20.00

I wouldnt trust tap water in america after flint

[Elim Garak]

They get food stamps to buy food, they use food stamps to buy food. What seems to be the problem?

[Kraenen]

Good one, compare a $200 scotch to a $1 soda......

Makes total sense.....

They're both unnecessary in any nutritional sense, so yes, it does make total sense to compare those two.

[Raskayz]

Liking them doesn't count for anything. I like $200 Scotch but don't expect anyone else to help me pay for it.

The article doesnt say poor people are buying 200$ scoth afaik

[Fugus]

Buying bottled water over using a re-usable filter right on the sink faucet is a waste of money.

https://www.amazon.com/faucet-mount-...node=680337011

Countless filters for under $20.00

Tried using water filters, still tasted like I was eating the pipe no matter what I did. Filtering it, boiling it, nothing does any good.

[Jtbrig7390]

I think people who are posting on the internet, from a computer or smart device can afford a $12 filter. Yes.

you realize a lot of those people have cell phones. A cheap cell phone plan is $30 a month and you can get a smart phone for $20. So that internet comes tied into there phone at no extra cost.

[Citizen T]

Good one, compare a $200 scotch to a $1 soda......

Makes total sense.....

I was originally comparing $0.06/pint for water to $1.00+/pint for soda. This is what had to do when I was broke - not waste money. Try to keep up

[Jtbrig7390]

They're both unnecessary in any nutritional sense, so yes, it does make total sense to compare those two.

One provides a energy boost someone may need and the other provides nothing.....

The energy boost one isn't the scotch.

[Alydael]

This is why I favor a food bank approach.

There is a ton of extra food on the US. Last I checked, they were still paying some farms to not "over produce."

Just make that food available to those in need for free.

I don't eat much junk food, but it is not very cost effective. I think a candy bar is close to a dollar. For the price of two candy bars, you can buy a whole box of rice and get a lot more food for that two bucks. Just saying, if money is tight- you might want to go for the rice.

Not only that, but there are all sorts of scams going on with food stamps. People buy cigarettes, porn and beer with that money. Some crews just scam food stamps and "launder" them through a local store. There is very little oversight on this. The food bank solves all those problems.

[Citizen T]

The article doesnt say poor people are buying 200$ scoth afaik

Do you even read? I'm making a comparion appropriate to comparing water to soda. Ounce to ounce it would work out pretty close

[TITAN308]

I don't eat much junk food, but it is not very cost effective. I think a candy bar is close to a dollar. For the price of two candy bars, you can buy a whole box of rice and get a lot more food for that two bucks. Just saying, if money is tight- you might want to go for the rice.

But that is inhumane way to think. Or so I've been told.

[Jtbrig7390]

I was originally comparing $0.06/pint for water to $1.00+/pint for soda. This is what had to do when I was broke - not waste money. Try to keep up

Not everyone has that option and some need that sugar rush......try to keep up.

Also I can get a 2 letter of coke for 89cents and a 3 letter for $1.

[Deleted]

How dare the poor spend thier benefits in thier own way. So what people in this thread want is the government interfering in the lives of the poor and telling then what they can and can't buy?

Big government yay.

[Nadiru]

Sugar is the cheapest macro-nutrient, next to saturated and trans-fat. They should eat healthier but we can't blame them from a financial perspective. A high protein diet is good but also costs a bit more.

Rice and beans are inexpensive and constitute a complete set of amino acids with a high protein count.

[Raskayz]

This is why I favor a food bank approach.

There is a ton of extra food on the US. Last I checked, they were still paying some farms to not "over produce."

Just make that food available to those in need for free.

I don't eat much junk food, but it is not very cost effective. I think a candy bar is close to a dollar. For the price of two candy bars, you can buy a whole box of rice and get a lot more food for that two bucks. Just saying, if money is tight- you might want to go for the rice.

Not only that, but there are all sorts of scams going on with food stamps. People buy cigarettes, porn and beer with that money. Some crews just scam food stamps and "launder" them through a local store. There is very little oversight on this. The food bank solves all those problems.

You'll run into the same problems because the issue of food banks is transportation, so it will massively stockpile canned shit and other non-perishables

[Jtbrig7390]

I don't eat much junk food, but it is not very cost effective. I think a candy bar is close to a dollar. For the price of two candy bars, you can buy a whole box of rice and get a lot more food for that two bucks. Just saying, if money is tight- you might want to go for the rice.

Eat rice 24/7 for a year and tell us how that works out for you...

[Citizen T]

One provides a energy boost someone may need and the other provides nothing.....

The energy boost one isn't the scotch.

Alocohol has more calories per gram than does sugar - 7 vs 4

[iperson]

I'm trying to lose weight so I only eat potato chips since they have no nutritional value...

[TITAN308]

Not everyone has that option and some need that sugar rush......try to keep up.

Also I can get a 2 letter of coke for 89cents and a 3 letter for $1.

Are people entitled to a sugar rush?

Eat rice 24/7 for a year and tell us how that works out for you...

Eat candy bars for a year and tell us how that works out for you...?