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What are your best #poverty meals and tips and tricks? 🍚🫘
*Boosts appreciated*
With the loss of #foodassistance for over 42 million USians, difficult times are ahead. If you don't rely on #SNAP, it will put an overwhelming and potentially insurmountable strain on people you know and care about.
@revoluciana
Vichyssoise is a delicious luxury feeling poverty meal. A potato or two, a leek or two, (onions work too) chicken or vegetable stock (cubes work fine), a bit of salt, pepper, nutmeg, blend to smooth, and mix in half & half cream to finish. It’s great hot, cold, and is very filling with a chunk of bread.
Only needs a few but cheap ingredients easily found.
@revoluciana what a beautiful post. Very smart and thoughtful. I boosted it, and I’ll be adding some tips soon.
This includes my own family. We rely on #SNAP to feed our children and ourselves.
I grew up food insecure. I was responsible for paying for my own food and clothes from around the age of 10 or 11. I was living by myself at 15. I had to learn how to get food and feed myself when I couldn't pay for it.
I suppose I should consider myself lucky because this means I'm afraid to have an empty pantry because all it takes is the loss of a job or an unexpected expense to make it difficult to afford food, which means I have some food stored.
My spouse and I have a tiny homestead which we historically grew over half the food to feed our family of six. However, we had to get rid of our sheep and goats in case we have to flee the country. I've had multiple unplanned hospitalizations and surgeries this year, so we didn't plant a goddamned thing to eat.
Funny enough, I've been working on healing my fear of food scarcity, and I've been easing up on how much I store. I'm not a hoarder or a prepper, but I felt that maybe I didn't need to have so much concern for keeping so much.
My point is that my family is going to struggle significantly to make up for the missing food assistance cost, even if it only lasts for November. And yet, we're one of the lucky families, because we do have experience with this. I am able to cook. We have some food stored. We know and have the means to do things other people can't or don't know how to do. We have access to enough community we can lean on that others don't have.
My spouse helped supervise a food pantry for 7 years. I've worked as a humanitarian in disaster and crisis for longer than that and know what it's like to see people panicking over food in desperate environments.
One month without food assistance for poor and hungry people is going to be a crisis. So many poor people will have to leverage credit they can't afford, or they will have to take on obligations that will strain them to a breaking point, or they will have to take desperate measures. And that's only at one month without assistance.
42 million people who won't be receiving access to food assistance that each and every one of them depends on.
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