“I am a Mississippi resident who receives food stamps, roughly $367 per month (less than $100 per week) for myself and my 4 year old daughter. I can live off food stamps for a week easily enough — it’s making them last through the rest of the month that’s difficult. It’s almost…on the flip side, when I was homeless (jumping from house-to-house for shelter) and on foodstamps,
I actually lost
a lot of weight
Even with the help of 250ish bucks a month for food, which is honestly a lot for one person, I still lost a lot of weight.
If anything, the junk food that I bought with the stamps were only burned off as energy because of my crazy work schedule and the fact that I barely ate as it was.
If you’re actually in a dire living situation that ACTUALLY calls for the help of foodstamps like me
you wont have the gaining weight problem
unless you know
youre just sitting at home living off of foodstamps and government money and are not going to school / working full time / doing something to make a life for yourself
but what do i know, I’m only speaking from experience.
I know plenty of people who go to school/work full time and do things to “make something of themselves” that still have to live off of $1 beans and rice and 25 cent packages of ramen noodles. Most people on food stamps aren’t just sitting on their asses doing nothing and even if they are unemployed they aren’t just sitting on their ass collecting free government money and living a life of luxury.
What do you know, indeed. Apparently nothing, as your experience is by far not the typical experience and unless I’m reading your post wrong you’re speaking from a place of misguided extreme ignorance.
LOL let’s also not forget that cheap food is not always the healthiest. When I was a crazy poor college student, I actually GAINED a lot of weight despite running around campus and working and everything. It wasn’t the junk food, it was the empty nutrition and carbs in that ramen.
It’s expensive to eat healthy, especially when you’re glucose intolerant like I am. Which a lot of people are.
Can you imagine a person with type 2 diabetes trying to live off of ramen and rice? omg.