08-30-2015, 01:19 PM
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Originally posted by maud gonne
The homeless already qualify for, in Hawaii, $334 a month, per person in the household, in EBT/food stamps. That is $1,000 for a faimily of three! Their children also get free school breakfast and lunches. If you feed them extra, they sell the EBT/food stamps.
Leilanidude: (Correct me if I'm wrong) My understanding of EBT/food stamps is a kind of catch-22 for the homeless: you have to have cooking facilities (like, a kitchen, like, in a house) in order to qualify for them. Maybe this stipulation has changed?
It is much more expensive to feed yourself if you do not have a kitchen to cook and store your food in. If you are buying food for one or two cold uncooked meals at a time you experience no savings for buying foods on sale or getting raw ingredients in bulk. Same goes for people without cars, you are limited to buying what you can carry while walking or riding the bus.
$334 per person divided by 90 meals is $3.71 per meal per person, which goes a lot farther if you have a house and a kitchen. Just think about the price difference per ounce for a gallon of milk and a quart, or a small jar of peanut butter compared to the jumbo size.