General Discussion

I'm on full disability, and I only get $35 in SNAP benefits per week. That is simply not enough to eat a healthy diet. The only way to survive is to eat highly processed food that is cheap.

I live in a food desert, and I don't even have a car. When I do manage to get a ride, the produce I buy spoils quickly because small town stores don't have a fast turnover.

And guess what's going to happen to food prices, as soon as Trump's anti-immigrant policies start affecting those prices...?

Spoiled produce is money out of my pocket, going into the garbage. Every other morsel of food I buy comes out of my disability benefits. I struggle desperately to eat a healthy diet, and I have managed to lose 50 pounds. I would have been able to lose a lot more, except there are so many times when I am stuck eating processed food, because I can only get a ride to Dollar General.

If my house weren't paid off, or if I had to pay rent? I wouldn't be able to afford food.

Just because you live in a place where there are food kitchens, doesn't mean that the rest of us do. Our food pantry doles out nothing but candy, salty snacks, stale baked goods on the verge of going moldy junk food, and highly processed food. So I don't even bother going there.

Until you've walked a mile in our shoes, you don't know what it's like. Quit commenting on topics you know nothing about.