• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    ah, yes, the rule of “you can’t buy 2lb of tasty cooked protein for $7 but you can buy 2lb of uncooked tasteless meat for $7.99/lb”

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      16 days ago

      Basically. We have a few grocery stores that have restaurants and put their left over food in a cooler to buy when they close (8pm). You can’t use snap until they relabel it and stick it in the cooler thing. Same food but because it isn’t handed to you it’s snap approved.

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      16 days ago

      If you don’t have a fridge, or a stove, that “no prepared food” rule makes it very expensive and extremely wasteful to eat.

      It also increases reliance on chips and soda, which a lot of places are trying to (or have) banned on SNAP without addressing the issue of “good” food being a hard to manage with countless restrictions on purchases.

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      16 days ago

      Plus, with a slow cooker, instant pot, or just a stove, you can make delicious broth from the leftovers and upgrade your next couple meals.