You do not have to be home although a lot of women do not work here. People put coolers on their poarchs or have a neighbor watch out and put the food in refrig

When you are approved for WIC, you choose the type of cereal, juice,cheese that you want. You have a set monthly menu. The dairy divides that into four weeks.  1/4 of milk is delivered each week. Normally, cereal , beans, tuna, carrots are one time a month. Eggs may come twice a month. Delivery is on WEd in my town. If there are 5 Wed then you dont get food that week. You can only chage your order once or twice a year, depending on if pregant or age of child. changes only made at a WIC visit. Babs

 Wow babs, thats a pretty neat concept VT has for their WIC program. Food right to your door step! My co-workers here on the island are from way up northern VT (North East Kingdom) in a town called Lyndonville. They own a 184 acre farm there. They are the ones that when they go back to VT on their vacations from here, they bring me back grocery bags full of apples every Fall. They even have a sugar shack for when they use to sugar their maple trees for REAL maple syrup.

The only food I've never been able to purchase with my EBT card has been hot, prepared food--a rotisserie chicken, a hot sub (which harris teeter offers a huge one for $2.99 and I get the cold ones some times)

 For some reason, my card doesn't like to pay for Clif bars, which I like for school, so it shows them as not paying, I give them back, the cashier rings them up by hand without the code, and we swipe the EBT again.  Everything else has been fine.

 

Dear All, So we have declllined rotissserie chicken, other hot food, live organic basil plants, & Cliff bars.  What do they have in common?!!!  Yours in Him, Deb

the cliff bar could be considered a protein/vitamin bar and those I was told were not covered, even the soy joys are not.  The hot chicken is a hot food.  So I would guess that the cliff bar and the hot chicken is definately luxury items, however the organic basil plant should have been covered as plants that is edible/produce more food should be covered. 

One good experience...even though out largest supermarket here WILL sell hot foods, there is another one that I go to that doesn't. But..a very nice woman who works there told me you can bring any pre-made meal (like chicken parmesan, etc.) to the guys behind the deli counter and they'll microwave it for you. I will never need this because I would take it home anyway but it's nice to know for people here who don't have a microwave oven at work or home. The markets here make their own rules...I just had to find out who does what. My deal of the day was that they had Kraft Barbeque Sauce for $1 each and I had a coupon for $1 off if you buy 2 bottles. So it wound up costing me only 50 cents each! I make a lot of chicken and use this for flavoring, zero fat content and I love Kraft the best. It's always on sale before cookout holidays like July 4th.

 I left the food stamp program in Texas in 2001.  I just looked up SNAP.  It's about time the food stamp program had a name change, since the advent of the EBT cards.,

 I never heard of "luxury groceries not being covered."  So I googled SNAP and went to an official US government site.

 I read a long list.  It was generally what I expected.

It looks like SNAP does not cover foods that are acutally considered health "supplements" like garlic pills.  It's an interesting list, some Herbalife is covered but not the dietary "food" figurines.

 Cooking wine is allowed, not surpisingly, but drinking wine, no.

 From what I read, it appears someone bought a hot rotisserie chicken.  That probably fell under the category of "assumed to be eaten in store."  Let's see, it seems like hot deli foods may traditiionally have been not covered.

But, everyone knows weird things happen in the electronic age.  The old classic of turn something off and turn it back on again and it works now.  

 I think the chicken "triggered" some kind of weird electronic miscommunication that messed up the whole order.  The store staff failed to pick up on that.  Those of you who know about this, I would say in the future always get the hot rotisserie chicked scanned separately and totalled separately.

I always heard griping from the public about people on FS buying expensive steaks or candy.  That is allowed under the food stamp program. There has never been a proscription against luxury groceries.

 Before food stamps, people who needed food from the pulic got powdered milk and other commodties.  It benefitted the farmer, but food stamps brought choice.

 I've never known of anyone being allowed to appeal and get exceptions to what food stamps would cover.  They are not going to cover dog food or garlic pills.

States that give you allotments that allow you to purchase soap and toilet paper with "food" stamps must be contributing extra state money.  The federal program is for food or seeds to grow food.

Affter thinking about it some more, if the retailer would not allow you to purchase foods on SNAP that you should have been able to, and you paid cash with them, that's a gripe with the retailer.  It's the fault of the retailer, and you might get some recourse from the retailer. The store might issue you a store voucher as compensation.

 Even in the case of electronic miscommunications, the store manager should know what's food stamp allowable.

To appeal about what food stamps won't buy won't work.  If the retailer misapplied pollicy, it's their job to fix it.

Believe me, food stamps/SNAP does not exist out of charity to you. The program benefits American farmers and grocers.  They make lots of profit off it.

I still don't get the sbap program not here in washington... But one question is tofu luxury and can it be a substaitue for meat...