Xtine I'm sorry to say that a lot of this 'bad food eating' comes down to the nearly ubiquitous 'SNAP' (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) cards, which can be used tobuy almost anything except, for some strange reason, delichickens. Of course it's easy to pick up quick-fix, expensive,pre-packaged foods and just swipe your SNAP. But it's notactually difficult, and much more cost-effective, to buy somebulk foods and prepare them. Anyone with an electric outlet can use a slow cooker, which costs about the same as a fewfancy coffees and lasts for years. I was on food stamps one winter many years ago, while establishing my Alaska residency and waiting for the cannery season to open. The items we could buy with thecoupons (actual paper coupons) were strictly limited andwe were required to separate them in our cart from non-allowed items (this was before scan codes were common). Simple recipes were offered with some of the foods, forthose who needed a bit of help preparing them. I think weneed to get back to some sort of control over how the SNAP cards are used, following the early food stamp model.

Xtine I'm sorry to say that a lot of this 'bad food eating' comes down to the nearly ubiquitous 'SNAP' (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) cards, which can be used tobuy almost anything except, for some strange reason, delichickens. Of course it's easy to pick up quick-fix, expensive,pre-packaged foods and just swipe your SNAP. But it's notactually difficult, and much more cost-effective, to buy somebulk foods and prepare them. Anyone with an electric outlet can use a slow cooker, which costs about the same as a fewfancy coffees and lasts for years. I was on food stamps one winter many years ago, while establishing my Alaska residency and waiting for the cannery season to open. The items we could buy with thecoupons (actual paper coupons) were strictly limited andwe were required to separate them in our cart from non-allowed items (this was before scan codes were common). Simple recipes were offered with some of the foods, forthose who needed a bit of help preparing them. I think weneed to get back to some sort of control over how the SNAP cards are used, following the early food stamp model.

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