$16.22 Starting off the day......
I bought 2 chocolate bars for Frank (buy 1 get 1 free, or BOGO as my dad likes to calls it down in Florida)
CVS
$1.87 Hersey Chocolate
Meijer
$1.29 Lettuce
$2.49 Baguette (bread)
$3.78
Total left for week $10.57
Today I picked up our grandsons after school, they are 12 year old twin boys. As we were talking on the way home, one of them turns to me and says, "Nan, I have been keeping up with your SNAP blog and I have to say the last few days have seemed kinda lazy". Of course, in my defense I tried to explain about Sunday and Monday's joyful experiences, however, I had to agreed with him.
I had never expected this journey to be so all consuming. We are constantly thinking about food choices and how we are going to plan for our next meal or our several days of meals. When money is limited like this, trying to have enough is a daily struggle. I think now I may be just starting to understand how stressful and anxious a family or a person on disability would feel going through this week after week after week, month after month, possibly with little to no end in sight.
"USDA has conducted two detailed studies of how long people receive food stamps. The first, which focused on the economic expansion of the mid-1980s, found that more than half of all households coming onto the Food Stamp Program left within six months; over two-thirds were gone within a year. A second study, which focused on the recession of the early 1990s, found only 42 percent leaving within six months and 57 percent exiting within a year. This suggests that economic conditions have a major impact on how long people receive food stamps. It should be noted that these figures include elderly and disabled recipients who typically received food stamps for longer spells and thus overstate the duration of food stamp receipt by households containing members able to work".
David Super, 2001 Read more: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2022
Frank made a yummy meat lasagna tonight for dinner, this is one of those typical meals that many people pick up frozen at the grocery store then heat up in the oven.
Basically there are 3 sizes to choose from-Party Size, Family size or Individual
Stouffer's Family Size- 57 ounces -7-9 servings approx. $8.00
Frank's Lasagna-same size cost less than $4.00
Homemade sauce
Homemade Pasta
Cheese -Mozzarella and Ricotta
Meat-Italian sausage and ground beef
Now, here is the thing...........Frank planned ahead and made this an Italian week. He started with pizza and then used some of the ingredients for our breakfast wraps and my lunch today and for the lasagna tonight. There is still plenty of ingredients left over. If you were to go out and buy a Stouffer's frozen lasagna, you would have lasagna for 3 days (maybe more), but that is all you would get.
Nutritional aspects- 850mg salt (sodium) per 1 cup serving of Stouffer's Lasagna
- 440mg salt (sodium) per 1 cup serving in Frank's lasagna
"2011 USDA recommends that everyone--adults as well as children--limit their daily sodium intake to less than 1,500 mg daily, not just those who are over 51 years of age or suffering from heart disease and high blood pressure"
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/425639-american-heart-association-sodium-recommendations/#ixzz2IqsPhWxW
Breakfast-Italian Egg Wrap, homemade marinara scrambled into eggs, cream cheese in a tortilla
My lunch was a whole wheat pita, topped with ground beef, cheese and tomato open face baked in toaster oven at work. (no picture, I was hungry and forgot to take one)
Dinner-mmmmmm lasagna and side salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar
Dessert-Hershey Chocolate Bar.....Frank is sharing just a bite or 2 with me!
I bought 2 chocolate bars for Frank (buy 1 get 1 free, or BOGO as my dad likes to calls it down in Florida)
CVS
$1.87 Hersey Chocolate
Meijer
$1.29 Lettuce
$2.49 Baguette (bread)
$3.78
Total left for week $10.57
Today I picked up our grandsons after school, they are 12 year old twin boys. As we were talking on the way home, one of them turns to me and says, "Nan, I have been keeping up with your SNAP blog and I have to say the last few days have seemed kinda lazy". Of course, in my defense I tried to explain about Sunday and Monday's joyful experiences, however, I had to agreed with him.
I had never expected this journey to be so all consuming. We are constantly thinking about food choices and how we are going to plan for our next meal or our several days of meals. When money is limited like this, trying to have enough is a daily struggle. I think now I may be just starting to understand how stressful and anxious a family or a person on disability would feel going through this week after week after week, month after month, possibly with little to no end in sight.
"USDA has conducted two detailed studies of how long people receive food stamps. The first, which focused on the economic expansion of the mid-1980s, found that more than half of all households coming onto the Food Stamp Program left within six months; over two-thirds were gone within a year. A second study, which focused on the recession of the early 1990s, found only 42 percent leaving within six months and 57 percent exiting within a year. This suggests that economic conditions have a major impact on how long people receive food stamps. It should be noted that these figures include elderly and disabled recipients who typically received food stamps for longer spells and thus overstate the duration of food stamp receipt by households containing members able to work".
David Super, 2001 Read more: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2022
Frank made a yummy meat lasagna tonight for dinner, this is one of those typical meals that many people pick up frozen at the grocery store then heat up in the oven.
Basically there are 3 sizes to choose from-Party Size, Family size or Individual
Stouffer's Family Size- 57 ounces -7-9 servings approx. $8.00
Frank's Lasagna-same size cost less than $4.00
Homemade sauce
Homemade Pasta
Cheese -Mozzarella and Ricotta
Meat-Italian sausage and ground beef
Now, here is the thing...........Frank planned ahead and made this an Italian week. He started with pizza and then used some of the ingredients for our breakfast wraps and my lunch today and for the lasagna tonight. There is still plenty of ingredients left over. If you were to go out and buy a Stouffer's frozen lasagna, you would have lasagna for 3 days (maybe more), but that is all you would get.
Nutritional aspects- 850mg salt (sodium) per 1 cup serving of Stouffer's Lasagna
- 440mg salt (sodium) per 1 cup serving in Frank's lasagna
"2011 USDA recommends that everyone--adults as well as children--limit their daily sodium intake to less than 1,500 mg daily, not just those who are over 51 years of age or suffering from heart disease and high blood pressure"
Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/425639-american-heart-association-sodium-recommendations/#ixzz2IqsPhWxW
Breakfast-Italian Egg Wrap, homemade marinara scrambled into eggs, cream cheese in a tortilla
My lunch was a whole wheat pita, topped with ground beef, cheese and tomato open face baked in toaster oven at work. (no picture, I was hungry and forgot to take one)
Dinner-mmmmmm lasagna and side salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar
Dessert-Hershey Chocolate Bar.....Frank is sharing just a bite or 2 with me!
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