PixieStix
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- Apr 2, 2009
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I disagree....the poor are very good at making something out of nothing when it comes to food....I have witnessed such with relatives on my husband's side that were part of the working poor.
And there are MANY out there just like them.
Quick and easy cooking comes from the middle class, with both parents working.
When the woman was not required to work in order for the family unit to have enough to scrape by, she was at home...and had the time to take flour and make biscuits or pies and cakes or dumplings or pasta....or the daily bread.....or a 3 hour stew made out of nothing but the meat on the bones...and left overs.
Care I see what the people using "food Stamps" buy. Little of it is food that requires preparation.
Now there is a difference in the elderly on food stamps and the younger ones. The elderly buy basics to prepare. The younger ones do not.
My generation prepared food, the succeding ones not so much.
I think we have lost many of the mother to daughter cooking skills that used to be passed down through the generations.
Most are unaware you can bake your own bread, that pancakes do not come from a box, that soup does not come from a can..
I think the food stamp and any general welfare assistance, takes away any incentive to be creative. It is detrimental to a persons dignity. as well as to our economic success.
I was at a place of business last week that I frequent for products I need for my planned meals and the manager was on her phone trying to find out how much was left on a food stamp card that she had purchased from someone for $20. She was telling me about this as if it was legal or something It turns our her investment payed off. The card had $60 left on it for her to use for "buying her expensive spices" Her words. I just looked at her and thought, lady, you are committing a federal crime