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• piguy314 16y ago
  Peanut butter, honey, bread, powdered milk, canned foods, dried fruit I actually buy many of these products anyway because I have a bad habit of buying food, forgetting about it, and then throwing it out when it spoils. Solution: Dried fruit doesn't spoil nearly as fast so if I forget about my raisins for 2 weeks chances are they will still be edible. Grapes on the other hand would have spoiled in that time. Also most of the discussion around food in America is totally moot. Food stamps are available in all 50 states, and at least one territory because there are 51 state food stamp programs in America. The only group of the poor for whom food should be a serious concern are the homeless because they lack the ability to cook the food they can buy with food stamps, and even then some states allow you to buy 1 hot meal per day with food stamps because of this. All of this is to say nothing of food pantries and private charities and other government programs (cheese) that provide food for the poor. So can we please stop harping on the food issue? Most of that is all just argument from emotion fantastical progressive rhetoric and has no basis in reality; the poor in America are NOT going hungry (as has been evidenced by the obesity-poverty statistics posted earlier).