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July 17 Oregon Center for Public Policy Food Stamps Update
I just received an email update from OCPP regarding the Farm Bill and food stamps and post it below in its entirety; please visit their website links below for more information.
Punishing Food Stamp Success: The Bush Administration’s Farm Bill would reverse Oregon’s progress against hunger
The Agriculture Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives is [...]
Posted: July 17th, 2007 under food stamps, in the news, oregon, poverty.
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The food I’m starting out with
I gathered my receipts from my most recent trip to the grocery store and made a chart of the food purchased on those trips that I plan to consume this week. Their costs are subtracted from the $20 remaining in my budget, after I took $1 off the top for random condiments like salt, pepper, [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2007 under food stamps, oregon, poverty.
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Menu planning on $21 a week
This shouldn’t be too hard for me; for one, I have a pretty good grasp on nutrition, know how to cook from raw ingredients very well, and have actually lived on less than this amount a week for food for extended periods of time. I remember a lot of weeks of eating only rice when [...]
Posted: April 21st, 2007 under food stamps, hunger, oregon.
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