Otherwise it's fun watching the progressives have a fit about how it's degrading and "like communism" telling people what to eat. Hey - if you come to my house for dinner, you eat what I make. If someone is eating on my dime, I have no problem with restricting the menu a bit to ensure someone on food stamps isn't eating lobster while I'm eating hamburger.
This is exactly my problem with food stamps.
As I'm sure I've mentioned here before, my ex wife and I got food stamps briefly during a lull in employment for both of us. I don't recall ever having as much of a grocery budget for two adults as we got in food stamps alone, even though I was still working part time and properly reporting that income. On top of that, TWC (which serves as local contact for food stamps) would always remind us of how to get more food from various churches around the area to supplement the food stamps.
What happens is that you get people who either buy the most expensive food they can get for the first couple weeks of the month and manage to run their budget dry, or the ones who flat out buy to sell the food for cash, then use the churches to stay fed all month.
Give them
HDRs and if they want better, they can figure out how to feed themselves. I can't imagine any way that providing those in containerload quantities can possibly be more expensive than the current system. No need for extra admin costs either; I'm pretty sure you could hand out 7/week to every man, woman and child who asks nicely for less than the $70 BILLION we're spending on food stamps. (Roughly, the current cost translates to about $215/person/year of the total population. Figure the vast majority wouldn't be asking every week, and likely most wouldn't ask more than a dozen weeks out of their whole lifetime.)