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procon

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5. You can't feed people like they are cattle.

Reply to pandr32 (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 11:58 AM

Feb 2018

Does this look like a balanced diet? What recipes could people come up with that would use those ingredients, and even if they were creative cooks, would anyone eat the 'Salmon Surprize"?

This month's box contained two cans or boxes each of green beans, carrots, applesauce, salmon, spaghetti, hot cereal and shelf-stable milk, plus two bottles of grape juice, a jar of peanut butter, a block of processed American cheese and a bag of nonfat milk powder.

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Blue Apron for food stamps already exists. And some recipients hate the powdered milk. [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2018 OP

Seniors and all people need real food pandr32 Feb 2018 #1

You can't feed people like they are cattle. procon Feb 2018 #5

Salmon surprize sounds like cat food crazycatlady Feb 2018 #6

Out of that package, I could eat Ms. Toad Feb 2018 #7

If the green beans are canned there is too much sodium pandr32 Feb 2018 #13

Sodium is not an issue for me - Ms. Toad Feb 2018 #23

Many people in this country have HBP pandr32 Feb 2018 #35

I know, but I was not providing a general critique of the contents Ms. Toad Feb 2018 #36

Lots of people with diabetes, too pandr32 Feb 2018 #37

And it is proportionately higher in the population receiving food stamps Ms. Toad Feb 2018 #38

And you would be right pandr32 Feb 2018 #39

a block of processed American cheese dixiegrrrrl Feb 2018 #9

No one in my family could be forced to eat Velveeta, so it would go to waste. procon Feb 2018 #10

did they change the cheese? d_r Feb 2018 #12

They did indeed change it. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2018 #17

aww, man. nt d_r Feb 2018 #24

I KNOW, right? dixiegrrrrl Feb 2018 #25

Sodium phosphate raises cardiovascular risk and kidney disease pandr32 Feb 2018 #14

There is very little of that I could eat. Maybe the beans, applesauce, spaghetti and smirkymonkey Feb 2018 #11

I doubt the "grape juice" is 100% fruit juice pandr32 Feb 2018 #15

Google tells us it is 100% juice. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2018 #18

Thank you for this pandr32 Feb 2018 #34

Insulting is the word! Ohiogal Feb 2018 #26

Yes! Poor people should take what they get and LIKE it! smirkymonkey Feb 2018 #29

Republicans Win the Prize for Creating New Ways to Degrade Poor People dlk Feb 2018 #2

Remember the ketchup is a vegetable for school lunches BS during the Reagan years? nt tblue37 Feb 2018 #4

We also have WIC. It's a better model IMHO. moriah Feb 2018 #3

WIC was a lifesaver Ohiogal Feb 2018 #27

Here they issue vouchers. moriah Feb 2018 #33

Looks like pretty standard stuff -- I'd cook with the powdered milk, not drink it FarCenter Feb 2018 #8

I Don't Think RobinA Feb 2018 #16

Salmon patties Lee-Lee Feb 2018 #19

Someone must - checked the local supermarket & have Bumble Bee, Starkist, and Chicken of the Sea FarCenter Feb 2018 #22

I would not eat anything from this bag trixie2 Feb 2018 #32

To be clear, the proposal did not say "powdered milk"... brooklynite Feb 2018 #20

Read the last line SoCalNative Feb 2018 #28

What is with the milk thing anyway? smirkymonkey Feb 2018 #30

Is it possible to make wine out of the grape juice? hunter Feb 2018 #21

Anything is possible with an Instant Pot....Here's the recipe The empressof all Feb 2018 #31