Food Stamps

It is not easy living on food stamps. Just when I was getting enough to eat decently, the price of food rose.

I go to the cheapest place in town – my daughter takes me every two weeks. I usually get to see my grandson – not too much play time but I do get to see him.

I am spending fifteens dollars more buying exactly the same stuff. So my food costs have gone up almost fifteen percent.

The biggest problem is having enough money to get through the two weeks. Twenty years ago I bought seventy-five dollars of food a week. Now I try to get by on $50 for two weeks.

My daughter is very sick and does not feel like taking me to the store yesterday or today. I understand completely. The problem is I do not think she realizes that after two weeks I am out of bread, milk and butter.

I have eaten butter-less pancakes for one meal or another for the last five days. Luckily I ran out of mix yesterday but that also means I’ll probably eat popcorn for two meals today instead of one.

I made corn bread (I use add only water for most everything) but I do not have any butter. Luckily I learned how to eat bread and other stuff without butter after my first heart attack but sometimes it really sucks.

I am not complaining – I put myself in this situation by not taking care of myself in my younger years and smoking way too many cigarettes.

Luckily it appears all the beer I drank did not hurt me – at least not yet.