Wife's cousin is disabled and only gets like $170/month in food benefits. She wastes it in the hot foods/prepared foods/deli area of the Giant Eagle (across the street from her apartment).
Wife tried to show her some basic recipes like homemade soups, subs, etc., but her cousin started to get defensive.
"I can't afford to make homemade subs! The store has them for $5 already made. If I buy all the fixings, it will cost way more than $5!" Then my wife gently tried to point out that about $10 will buy enough ingredients to make about 10 subs. So instead of $50 for 10 store made subs, she can have 10 homemade ones for $10.
My wife was met with an attitude. Also, the soup idea of some stew meat or hamburger and a bag of frozen veggies, some diced tomatoes, seasoning, etc. was shot down. Because she can buy canned soups and soup from the hot foods area for less than the stuff to make homemade soup. But again $10 of soup ingredients will make a couple of gallons of soup.
She was out of food and eating ramen noodles and won't get any food benefits for a week, so my wife asked what she was hungry for and she said Chinese. Wife took her to the local Chinese place and gave her $50 and told her she could keep the change. So her cousin comes out waving $2 in the air. "Wow that didn't last long", she said with a laugh. Turns out she ordered 2 large orders of sesame scallops, 2 large orders of fried shrimp, 2 large orders of vegetable fried rice, 10 egg rolls, large egg drop soup, and some more stuff. She ate it all in one day. It was so much food, they put it in a cardboard box.
Wife thought she'd spend $10 on Chinese and then $40 at Giant Eagle. I told my wife she's a grown woman. Don't waste energy on her.
Wife tried to show her some basic recipes like homemade soups, subs, etc., but her cousin started to get defensive.
"I can't afford to make homemade subs! The store has them for $5 already made. If I buy all the fixings, it will cost way more than $5!" Then my wife gently tried to point out that about $10 will buy enough ingredients to make about 10 subs. So instead of $50 for 10 store made subs, she can have 10 homemade ones for $10.
My wife was met with an attitude. Also, the soup idea of some stew meat or hamburger and a bag of frozen veggies, some diced tomatoes, seasoning, etc. was shot down. Because she can buy canned soups and soup from the hot foods area for less than the stuff to make homemade soup. But again $10 of soup ingredients will make a couple of gallons of soup.
She was out of food and eating ramen noodles and won't get any food benefits for a week, so my wife asked what she was hungry for and she said Chinese. Wife took her to the local Chinese place and gave her $50 and told her she could keep the change. So her cousin comes out waving $2 in the air. "Wow that didn't last long", she said with a laugh. Turns out she ordered 2 large orders of sesame scallops, 2 large orders of fried shrimp, 2 large orders of vegetable fried rice, 10 egg rolls, large egg drop soup, and some more stuff. She ate it all in one day. It was so much food, they put it in a cardboard box.
Wife thought she'd spend $10 on Chinese and then $40 at Giant Eagle. I told my wife she's a grown woman. Don't waste energy on her.
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I know that they say MSG makes you want to eat more, but oh dear, she might need an intervention...
