Freepers explain why food stamps are luxurious by showing how they can totally live on 5 dollars a day. It's...enlightening about Freepers' willingness to make crap up to better hate on the poor:
F15Eagle is riddled with scurvy:
At a company cafeteria, I ate on $1 a lunch. Bowl of soup and crackers. Add in 25 cents for a can of Coke from a 12-pack. In the evening, I would eat a 17-cent pack of Ramen noodles and another can of Coke. So less than $2/day for a lot of days, when necessary.I'll bet HangnJudge doesn't get why the poor can be fat:
5 McD’s double cheeseburgers a dayPennsylvaniaMom's omelette plan goes overbudget due to 'dietery issues.'
-each-
440 calories
23g fat
25g protein
1g salt
yup, with 5 of these, plus a vitamin,
one could do quite well
Great Value Liquid eggs zero cholesterol; low sodium; high protein. Many mornings (I work retail so I go into work at 10a) I make omelets (GV low eggs, my own cheap yet low sodium homemade salsa, sm portion of cheese, side of turkey sausage, wheat toast); I also pack all of our lunches (though our SD tries to hunt me down each year to have me apply for discounted lunches). Dinners have to closely monitored for carb levels and we do alot of stews/chili for that reason. I did some quick math on supermarket receipts I have w/me and we are closer to $30 per day for the four of us, but due to dietary issues we scrimp elsewhere.GeronL- Nom nom sodium!
PJ-Comix has some totally realistic advice:
Spam Ramen Noodles
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I studied some Euell Gibbons so I can live off the land or more accurately, live off the sea. Did you know it is easy to find sea urchins in the water and then you simply open up the urchins with a knife and scoop out the eggs? It sounds yucky but it is actually quite tasty. Just pretend it is high priced bright yellow caviar. BTW, sea urchin eggs are called Uni in Japanese restaurants and sold as sushi. Also I live near an area chock full of wild hogs and only need to use a gun on them to enjoy wild pig. I don't even have to cook them since some Jamaican friends told me I only need to bring the wild hogs to them and they will make jerk pork out of it and give me a big portion for myself.PJ-Comix als smugly spends all his time clipping coupons and trading them for vodka:
I often eat on LESS than $5 per day. My secret-—coupons. I do AMAZING things with coupons including a lot of FREE food. Some weeks I actually spend less than $5 for the entire week on food. This thursday and friday I will be scoring about a hundred bucks in FREE food plus I will be getting over a thousand bucks worth of air freshener refills for FREE. Many of those will be bartered into Grey Goose vodka which is sort of a food.PJ-Comix also advises the poors to enjoy easy casino living!
A few years ago we had a Prime Rib buffet with lots of side dishes at the Seminole Casino for just $5.99 but they have since upped the prices to $7.99 on weekdays and $9.99 on weekends.American Dream 246 explains how easy it is if you just beg for scraps from a slaughterhouse!
I can get all the meat I want - I mean heart - tongue - kidney - pigs head etc..from a slaughter house 10 miles away - for free!!! I don't even go there as often anymore because they give me so many bags of totally fresh meat that I don't have anymore room in my freezer. I wish I could find some "poor" people around where I live so I would send them there..Too bad the libs wouldn't go forBwanaNdege's plan to import herd boys:
That would feed so many families for ever because you can get it anytime - year round - they THROW IT AWAY!!!
People either don't like it - so they are not hungry enough - or just don't know. But when you are REALLY hungry you look somewhere else than at Hannaford. Even at Hannaford actually - the other day I found a piece of pork for $2.95 - huge - I had for 4 days of meat - that would have feed a family of five for at least 2 days.
I am sorry to say that American don't know what hunger is. Ask europeans - they know - the war - they know all the tricks.
But they spend in food before they buy a flat screen tv or iPhones - they buy cheap from farmers potatoes - onions - garlic etc..and store in the cellar for the winter.
My point is that if you really look, here in America, here is free food everywhere if you look for it. Tonnes of fruits and vegetables after a market closes - they throw away what was not sold also. Free meat at the slaughter houses and may be some potatoes that you will have to buy?
And if you live in the country - duck dynasty: HUNT or trade.
I had a great plan to bring herd boys from East Africa to the South, with their goats, to work on the kudzu problem. Half the boys would watch the goats in the morning while the other half went to school. In the afternoon, they would swap.
After a year (or more) load up the boys, their accumulated pay, educational certificates, goodies acquired in the land of Walmart and ALL their fat goats on a ship headed back to East Africa.
Time the trip to coincide with the Haj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Stop by, sell the goats for sacrifices before stopping in Mombasa to get the boys home.
Fees from US landowners for kudzu eradication, plus those from goat sales, should fund the entire program plus establish an educational trust fund for the boys.
The boys would benefit greatly, Southern landowners would, too. For a while, it would even bee a great deal for the goats...for a while.
Alas, far too politically incorrect. Media types, advocacy busybodies and race pimps would have a hissy fit.
Many of the $5 or less per day meals they put out are only 800-900 calories or less. Ramen noodles and a coke..yum...
ReplyDeleteLooking at the FR facebook page..not too many freepers have missed meals..obesity city.
PJ-comix says she does $5 a week for her whole family..she is one of those coupon idiots in front of me in line that take 45 minutes shuffling through her notebook of coupons.
Imagine how much more they could spend on food if they didn't pay $40-80 for the internet every month. Hell, they could have an extra cup of Ramen EVERY DAY! That'll teach those poors to want to look for jobs instead of spending their time bartering, begging, scanning/cutting out weekly ads, subsistence farming, fishing, importing goats, travelling to local casinos, and going on the Super Size Me diet (minus the super size option, of course).
ReplyDeleteWell, in general, people do spend more for food than necessary.
ReplyDeleteHigh vegetable, low meat diets are actually pretty cheap and healthy.
That said, even $5 per day is fairly unrealistic, especially for the urban environment.
As mentioned above, $5 for cheap junk food, cannot sustain a person.
Yep - and actually knowing how to cook makes it even cheaper! The greatest invention isn't the wheel, it's the wok!
DeleteGot curious and looked at a couple of supermarket receipts that were still in my wallet. $100 for the week to feed a rather large family. Not much meat on the list - a chicken, some reduced price steak and some trout. We do tend to use cheese or eggs for protein, though made sure the kids had more protein when they were growing up.
It'd be even lower, but there are always a couple bottles of wine on the shopping list. Some for cooking, some for the cook!
American Dream 256 does actually have a point regarding slaughterhouses. They are more than willing to give away offal and trotters and whole heads, our local one certainly is! Bones too, which get turned to stock. It does help to know someone who works there though. A random guy showing up and asking for stuff is likely to get short shrift!
$5 a day could probably get me by, as a single adult. That means skipping the Dunkin Donuts, brown bagging it, and looking for the big buy/couponed meats and snacks. But I can't imagine how a family of four, especially one with babies is going to get buy on that.
DeleteIt's one thing to say to others that they should live within their means and accept that if you're poor you can't necessarily splurge. I kinda get that as reality (rather than as hatefulness, which motivates the Freepers). But telling people to go eat offal and tripe and cow heads is maybe just going a bit too far. I'd like to think that even if the American poor are going to live poor, that we're beyond making them beg for alms and scraping up the scrap meat off the slaughterhouse floor.
But that PJ Comix is something else. Buying a zillion air fresheners and spending all day at the casino. Tells me a lot.
-FresnoGrifter
Heya Fresno! EC here. Hope you are doing solid and having a good week!
DeleteThing is - I never minded offal, or trotters, or brawn. It was the bits of the animals we simply couldn't sell, back when I was a kid. Choice was to eat it ourselves, or waste it, or get a few pennies from the knackerman to turn it into dog food. Still can't abide tripe or tongue though, even though using every part of the animal was pretty much ingrained in us all! The cats have to eat something, and they are totally welcome to that. :)
Agreed on PJ Comix. A thousand bucks worth of air freshener?
So FReepers on the one hand think that $5 a day is adequate to feed, say, an elderly retiree or a disabled vet (to name two common types of food-stamp recipients). But on the other hand, they want to cut that amount further or eliminate the program entirely, because if you can't work you shouldn't eat because useless eaters are a cancer on the nation and the culture because fuck you, that's why.
ReplyDeleteFunny how these tend to be the very same people who constantly attack Darwin as the father of eugenics. 'Cause it seems pretty clear to me that they're espousing a naive dream of racial/nationalist evolutionary "betterment" that went out of fashion with the general public circa 1945.
"'Cause it seems pretty clear to me that they're espousing a naive dream of racial/nationalist evolutionary "betterment" that went out of fashion with the general public circa 1945."
DeleteI am totally stealing that line for future use. Thanks!
One of the really jarring things that always comes up on the useless eaters threads is that a heck of a lot of freepers are on social security themselves. Raise that though, and you are met with a defensive howl of "I paid in to it."
Geez I am so grateful for the yummy recipes !
ReplyDeleteRamen with cream of mushyuk.
Ramen with spam.
Ramen with a coke chaser.
Yummy .
Going to shill another site to you, with Ozzy's permission. Conservative - but don't blame us for that :)
Deletehttp://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,108696.0.html
Frugal recipe thread. Add some to it, or just read, cook and enjoy.
FW dude going on a rant and then being bitch slapped by a sane poster. FWdude wants all obama supporters to lose their jobs, house, wealth and ..health.The get this..he say's Obama supporters stand for everything that is ungodly. I doubt he realizes gawd would bitch slap him if he came back down to earth,.
ReplyDeletehttp://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3070241/posts?page=35#3
Heh, I think I can take the competition.
DeleteDumbass :P
DeleteI see a fair few names I know here. Not going to stop defending things I think are reasonable - even FR gets things right some times!
But - thanks. Calling horrible, extremist assholes out is always a good thing. Any chance of doing a DU/ Kos blog as well? I know this stuff takes time to do properly - but it might be fun.