This is the Food Stamps Cooking Club Calling Card!
Do you ever feel crunched for time? You humble blogger certainly does! Between spine issues, upcoming events, day-to-day housekeeping and life in general, time slips away very quickly, it seems. Of course, considering how many, many years I’ve been 33 that MIGHT have something to do with it. I’m told that Seniors do slow down. *I hope it’s just a rumor.
Every one of our posts has our email address. I’d love to share with you the incoming email that hit my hot button this morning! What a lovely way to greet the day:
“Hi!
I have had some thoughts about hunger (you don’t say?) and several things stand out in my mind. In the USA today, people are going hungry and not from a lack of food. Goddess!!! You should see what we have to toss because there was no one to eat it! Hunger is a lack of knowledge. If I have heard, “Wow! I never knew…” once, I have heard it a thousand times! I do not know how many times I have said the following things are not only lacking in nutrition, they are downright BAD for you:
Anything that has O’s in it – cheetos, fritos, doritos and the like
Anything that says “helper” on it. There’ s no helper – there’s hinder-er. You’d be better off just eating a can of tuna and some whole grain bread for pennies compared to the cost of the “helper”
Anything with microwave instructions.
Anything that has 2 wrappers i.e. box and tray
Anything that fizzes and that includes beer!
Then I start the education process, but even knowledge is not enough. There is the absolute part called motivation. Sure, there are nights that I don’t want to cook – lots of them. But a cold salad and some whole grain bread and cheese is a meal in seconds. One of my all time favorites is to spread goat cheese on a baguette slice and top with a thin slice of apple. For those who don’t like goat cheese, use cream cheese.
So many people that I work with who have been among the classes for a while are actually showing a surplus of food stamp money at the end of the month because I have taught them that the bulk aisle is their friend. We stay away from the center of the store for the most part because the loss leaders, produce, meat and poultry, bulk section, dairy and bakery are on the perimeter of the store. They are learning to network together, and last month, we actually made stone soup for the last Thursday in June.
I closed that lesson with the Stone Soup fable…
Love,
Delaine”
Delaine makes some salient points and we thank her with a grateful heart. It would be fun to know what YOUR thoughts are…
There was an interesting phone conversation in the Club House this week, as well. Someone called about the domain name for this corner of the internet. During the course of the conversation I explained that this exists for the purpose of helping people who use public assistance for their food dollars. The caller was AMAZED and really interested to know more about it. Come to find out, this caller became the newest Member of the Food Stamps Cooking Club! *Fist Bump!
The National Geographic magazine sent me on a RANT earlier. I’ll be venting about THAT soon. Meantime, I’ll have some tests done for which I cannot study and I’m told I’ll be out of commission for some time. Stay tuned, kids, people need help. If those of us who have banded together to support those people, WHO WILL?
One more point: A hands-on cooking class will be scheduled soon for Johnson County, NE!
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