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A friend of mine receives food stamps and haas a Costco card. So off we went to Costco yesterday. I drove since their only vehicle is not always working. She was doing her regular type grocery shop and I was picking up basics as well as things we only get at Costco. I paid cash and she used her foodstamps.
We had a wonderful fun time in the very crowded store. In the end we could not see over the top of everything in the cart!! Total bill was $550, my share ws $150.
The biggest difference (other than how we paid for our purchases) is the amount of premade frozen items she purchased - I had none.
I have taken her grocery shopping once before when she really needed to go and had no transportation. The same thing happened then - she just put whatever she wanted into the cart without checking prices at all.
My concern centers about how much further she could make her food stamp money go if she bought basic ingredients and made food from scratch instead of making premade food. And then I wonder too what I would do if I had access to food stamp money. Perhaps I'd do the same......just thinking and saying.
We had a wonderful fun time in the very crowded store. In the end we could not see over the top of everything in the cart!! Total bill was $550, my share ws $150.
The biggest difference (other than how we paid for our purchases) is the amount of premade frozen items she purchased - I had none.
I have taken her grocery shopping once before when she really needed to go and had no transportation. The same thing happened then - she just put whatever she wanted into the cart without checking prices at all.
My concern centers about how much further she could make her food stamp money go if she bought basic ingredients and made food from scratch instead of making premade food. And then I wonder too what I would do if I had access to food stamp money. Perhaps I'd do the same......just thinking and saying.