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New Mexico to end food stamp supplement

A 36 pack case of ramen costs 5.88 at Sams Club (buy 2 for under $12). 4 potatos will run you 2 bucks. 2 Onions for a dollar. A block of generic cream cheese 1.30. A tub of margarine about $2. A big bag of mixed frozen veggies, $3. You can buy a big box of oatmeal for about 3 bucks. Assuming you have basics like sugar, salt and pepper (and if really want to live frugally, pick up ketchup, sugar, salt, pepper, hot sauce, mayo, mustard, and cracker packets everywhere you can for free). Should run you about $24.30. You arent living like a king but you can do just fine.


That is a big no if one has a heart condition.
 
A 36 pack case of ramen costs 5.88 at Sams Club (buy 2 for under $12). 4 potatos will run you 2 bucks. 2 Onions for a dollar. A block of generic cream cheese 1.30. A tub of margarine about $2. A big bag of mixed frozen veggies, $3. You can buy a big box of oatmeal for about 3 bucks. Assuming you have basics like sugar, salt and pepper (and if really want to live frugally, pick up ketchup, sugar, salt, pepper, hot sauce, mayo, mustard, and cracker packets everywhere you can for free). Should run you about $24.30. You arent living like a king but you can do just fine.

But I notice those on food stamps aren't buying things like that. They are buying name brand cereal and ground chuck. I'm buying store brand cereal and hamburger. :)
 
A 36 pack case of ramen costs 5.88 at Sams Club (buy 2 for under $12). 4 potatos will run you 2 bucks. 2 Onions for a dollar. A block of generic cream cheese 1.30. A tub of margarine about $2. A big bag of mixed frozen veggies, $3. You can buy a big box of oatmeal for about 3 bucks. Assuming you have basics like sugar, salt and pepper (and if really want to live frugally, pick up ketchup, sugar, salt, pepper, hot sauce, mayo, mustard, and cracker packets everywhere you can for free). Should run you about $24.30. You arent living like a king but you can do just fine.

Avoid the ramen, unless you skip the packet. I actually experienced a form of poisoning from too much ramen noodle dieting.
 
That is a big no if one has a heart condition.

I simply responded to Barb. Sure its not a GREAT diet and not one EVERY person could follow.

Wait...why not? Buy the low sodium ramen...you still have veggies, starches, and a certain element of nutrition. Throw in 18 boiled eggs and cut them in half and dice into your meal and you are adding protein.
 
Avoid the ramen, unless you skip the packet. I actually experienced a form of poisoning from too much ramen noodle dieting.

I survived my early college and multiple military deployments eating a similar menu.

The packet isnt necessary...I drain off the water, use a little cream cheese or butter. Believe me...you learn some gourmet tips when going on campouts...
 
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But I notice those on food stamps aren't buying things like that. They are buying name brand cereal and ground chuck. I'm buying store brand cereal and hamburger. :)

No accounting for choices. Many of them also have cell phones and cable and smoke cigarettes too (seems we already had this discussion recently). Anywhoo...m just sayin...you can eat on a very small budget if you are careful, buy in bulk, and go for those store brands.
 
I simply responded to Barb. Sure its not a GREAT diet and not one EVERY person could follow.

And I simply responded to you:shrug:


Wait...why not? Buy the low sodium ramen...you still have veggies, starches, and a certain element of nutrition. Throw in 18 boiled eggs and cut them in half and dice into your meal and you are adding protein.


A single serving of beef ramen noodles has 861 mgs of salt that is 36% of the RDA.

Vitamin A is 0
Vitamin C is 0
Calcium is 1%
Iron is !0%

Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Soup, ramen noodle, beef flavor, dry
 
Yeah, it's nasty stuff. It is however good for keeping your stomach from growling. That's about it.

I also bet all you who lived on them paid with real money. Most are probably too young to remember Mac & Cheese at less than 20 cents a box, even at the little store in the neighborhood. I lived on those for a long time after I moved out of my parents house. I've always managed without foodstamps. They should only be for those who really need them.
 
And the low sodium version have?

Again...we are talking about food on a budget of $25 a month. Obviously for some it wont work. For most...it beats starving.


Couldn't find a low sodium version.

And yeah it beats starving but the odds are it will lead to major health complications down the line that are even more costly to treat.
 
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Yeah, it's nasty stuff. It is however good for keeping your stomach from growling. That's about it.

thats why you add frozen veggies, potatos, onions, and egg. A wedge of cream cheese...a touch of butter...

Perfect? no...but the challenge was to provide a month of meals on $25.00 So...love to see yours or Winstons options...
 
Couldn't find a low sodium version.

And yeah it beats starving but the odds are it will lead to major health complications down the line that are even more costly to treat.

This will be my absolute last word on this because really...discussing Ramen is silly...but...
1-Nissan Choice...low sodium ramen noodles.
2-As per CNN...
"The noodles themselves are pretty harmless, said Ron Konzak, author of The Book of Ramen. Yes, someone actually wrote a book about ramen. There are web sites devoted to the topic, too. Usually its the MSG in the flavor packets that can harm people on low sodium diets or who are allergic to the stuff. Even those who dont suffer from symptoms should be careful not to overdo it when it comes to the noodles, or at least the flavor packs, which Brooks says are also high in sodium. A sampling of the three main brands of instant noodles revealed sodium amounts of 687 to 830 milligrams per serving.
The Internet offers sites devoted to clever recipes using instant noodles. Some of the more interesting include ramen pancakes, ramen chili and cream cheese ramen. And many of the recipes dont incorporate the sodiumladen flavor packs."
 
that's why you dilute the crap out of em. boil the noodles in about 5X the recommended amount of water, add the little packet, then drain and rinse. sure....tastes like crap but it will keep you from starving.


If people eat like that for any amount of extended time the repercussions are going to be more costly.
 
thats why you add frozen veggies, potatos, onions, and egg. A wedge of cream cheese...a touch of butter...

Perfect? no...but the challenge was to provide a month of meals on $25.00 So...love to see yours or Winstons options...

I don't have options. I survived, it did some damage. I wouldn't go there again.
 
I don't have options. I survived, it did some damage. I wouldn't go there again.

You have $25 a month I bet you would...
 
thats why you add frozen veggies, potatos, onions, and egg. A wedge of cream cheese...a touch of butter...

Perfect? no...but the challenge was to provide a month of meals on $25.00 So...love to see yours or Winstons options...


I'd get kicked out of my heart transplant clinic on a diet like that.
 
Ha,ha! Anything being pushed by the Republicans (Fox News) supposed to be "fair"? That is a joke. Is that something like Faux News "fair and balanced"? Yeah, no thank you.
You have the right to be foolish and frivolous. May your chains wear lightly upon you in your slavery to the state.
 
Ha, that sounds like something that conservatives that want to push the 8 years of ineptness of Bush, under the rug would say. Obama is the President now, and he is doing a good job of fixing the crap that Bush left behind. It's the dumb Americans we need to be concerned with, the ones that think Palin, Bachmann, Perry and the likes of such clowns can be a good President. Just because cons were able to sneak GW in doesn't mean they'll be able to sneak another dummy in.


Even if we agree that George Bush was the worst President ever, what's to be done about Barrack Obama? Is calling a presidential candidate "dummy" your idea of discussing the issues?
If you made yourself available to other sources of information other than Faux News you would find out that things are a lot better than if we would have elected McBush and continued the Bush idiotic policies.

In fact Barrack Obama is continuing the idiotic policies of George Bush and is actually aggravating them.
Just imagine the number it would be if we would have done what Reps/cons wanted to do - "nothing". It's easy to complain about what is, but if we were in a depression and McCain was president, I'm sure all the Reps/cons would be saying "it's not so bad" - "what depression" - and "those people without jobs don't want to find jobs", but since it is Obama that is President, they want miraculous recovery after 8 years of corruption.

It's likely, after BHO's campaign, that optimistic people looked to the future with some hope and perhaps some positive change but there ain't neither. Not for the better anyway.

Still better than the depression Republicans would have put us in.

You have no way of knowing that. Just another guess, sans facts.
Their confidence in Congress is lower, thanks to the upsurge of Republicans that got voted in on Nov 2010.

Obviously the confidence in the Democrats was even lower or they wouldn't have thrown the bums out.
Considering your double standards and the drivel you've provided, I would say I'm doing great.

Did BHO extend your unemployment benefits?
 
It's my belief there are really two sides to this debate. First should we be taking away from the disabled and the elderly. I think the answer to that is a resounding “NO”

The next part is why are we ? In my opinion, if welfare was ever run properly, we wouldn't have to. We were a nation of people that use to care about those that “couldn't” take care of themselves. The problem arose when we said … well .. lets extend those same benefits to those that are just having a hard time of it … and has now ended with 2nd and 3rd generation welfare families, that have never attempted or wanted to work to support themselves.

Welfare should be designed to get those that are capable of working off of welfare, not to create a life long dependency on it. If we were to do something along those lines, we wouldn't need to have this discussion, because the money would be there to give to those that can't work and support themselves.

The problem I have with most liberals is they never want to fix anything, their idea of fixing it is to spend more, tax the wealthy …. and blame Bush, ….. take away those 3 things and they have little or nothing to say.
 
I refuse t9o give to the Salvation Army because they are anti-gay.

Then I guess you'll just have to starve, right?
 
It's my belief there are really two sides to this debate. First should we be taking away from the disabled and the elderly. I think the answer to that is a resounding “NO”

The next part is why are we ? In my opinion, if welfare was ever run properly, we wouldn't have to. We were a nation of people that use to care about those that “couldn't” take care of themselves. The problem arose when we said … well .. lets extend those same benefits to those that are just having a hard time of it … and has now ended with 2nd and 3rd generation welfare families, that have never attempted or wanted to work to support themselves.

Welfare should be designed to get those that are capable of working off of welfare, not to create a life long dependency on it. If we were to do something along those lines, we wouldn't need to have this discussion, because the money would be there to give to those that can't work and support themselves.

The problem I have with most liberals is they never want to fix anything, their idea of fixing it is to spend more, tax the wealthy …. and blame Bush, ….. take away those 3 things and they have little or nothing to say.

What do you mean use to? We care about people in trouble, but there is a limit to what is fair. And the American people give plenty to charities and churches that help the poor and disabled. The rest of your stuff I agree with.

And furthermore, this whole notion of TAKING AWAY from disabled and elderly is wrong. That premise that it was theirs to begin with is bull****. You have to keep an eye on bleeding heart rhetoric, they will substitute "take away" for "give" every time to change the perception of the truth.
 
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