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Found this on a diet related message board. It made me think of this post:
I have been very fortunate and blessed in the past few years, and my husband and I now live a life that many people would kill for.
However, we were not always so prosperous. There was a time when my husband worked 60 hrs a week and I held down two jobs, working as much as 16 hrs a day and always 7 days a week. We had one car a 1992 astro van with 240000 miles on it, which we had to juggle, three teenagers who's drug addicted mother did nothing to help with and a toddler. We qualified for snap and we had to use it. I was so embarrassed at the market. We receive 627 $ a month. I shopped only specials and at grocery outlets and still had to ration healthy choices to make ends meet. Yep we bought frozen pizzas for a buck each, lots of ramen, cookies and snack cakes. Generic soda was 1 buck a 3 liter. Milk was 5 bucks a gallon so guess what? I bought soda too. I knew produce was a better choice but they could eat 10 bucks of fruit in a sitting. It was embarrassing and disheartening but its sad to think we were being judged as well. It took a lot of effort to make the snap stretch month to month. We didn't stay on them long, and now we are six figure earners who pay our taxes to two different countries and begrudge no one a helping hand. We should help each other more and judge each other less. And if a working mom is running on fumes trying to get her family food in between her day and night job, having had 3 hours sleep the night before and uses food stamps to buy a redbull and snickers, so what? Maybe she had just put every penny of the 2.50 in change she has to her name in gas and needs the caffeine to make it through the day. I don't know. Just my experience but its hard out there.
Found this on a diet related message board. It made me think of this post:
I have been very fortunate and blessed in the past few years, and my husband and I now live a life that many people would kill for.
However, we were not always so prosperous. There was a time when my husband worked 60 hrs a week and I held down two jobs, working as much as 16 hrs a day and always 7 days a week. We had one car a 1992 astro van with 240000 miles on it, which we had to juggle, three teenagers who's drug addicted mother did nothing to help with and a toddler. We qualified for snap and we had to use it. I was so embarrassed at the market. We receive 627 $ a month. I shopped only specials and at grocery outlets and still had to ration healthy choices to make ends meet. Yep we bought frozen pizzas for a buck each, lots of ramen, cookies and snack cakes. Generic soda was 1 buck a 3 liter. Milk was 5 bucks a gallon so guess what? I bought soda too. I knew produce was a better choice but they could eat 10 bucks of fruit in a sitting. It was embarrassing and disheartening but its sad to think we were being judged as well. It took a lot of effort to make the snap stretch month to month. We didn't stay on them long, and now we are six figure earners who pay our taxes to two different countries and begrudge no one a helping hand. We should help each other more and judge each other less. And if a working mom is running on fumes trying to get her family food in between her day and night job, having had 3 hours sleep the night before and uses food stamps to buy a redbull and snickers, so what? Maybe she had just put every penny of the 2.50 in change she has to her name in gas and needs the caffeine to make it through the day. I don't know. Just my experience but its hard out there.
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