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Smalls is excelling academically in GATE and has given the teacher no behavioral concerns, thank God.

Parent teacher conference day. Tiny is apparently an artistic genius who has no spatial awareness and Bigs is a bright and kind student who is a joy to have in class. 😂

Now we wait for Smalls’ conference.

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Corgi costumes over the years.

Omg congrats!

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No, not yet, we were crouching to all fit, but he’s almost as tall as me! Another year and I think he will be there!

Wealth is meaningless if you’re not using it on others.

The point is to give it away. The point is to give it away.
The point is to give it away.

Leftover bread, $.79 avocado, and eggs on sale this week. It was quick and cheap, I promise!

So tired.

Team YootyMom showing out on pay day. You guys have made me proud of who my friends are this week. ❤️

Girl, I almost cried the other week thinking about mine.

People do the SNAP challenge to highlight the fact that for a lot of Americans, that’s all they have to eat on, “supplemental” or not.

The Republicans wanted to change it to SUPPLEMENTAL in negotiations for this exact reason - they didn’t want people to think they could/should rely on SNAP benefits and that it was a bonus of sorts, and not the essential entitlement program that it is.

Interestingly, when I first came up with the acronym for SNAP in 2007 (when we renamed it from the Food Stamp Program), it was supposed to be called the SECURE Nutrition Access Program.

While it’s true the program is “meant” to be supplemental, the reality is for many SNAP families, their SNAP benefit *IS* their entire food budget.

The SNAP benefits use the Thrifty Food Plan as the base upon which the SNAP benefits are calculated, adjusting for household income. And there are obviously things SNAP does not cover, such as hot prepared food and restaurant meals (with a few rare exceptions).

Anyways, however you do it, find a way to help out this month.

We are doing this bc what would doing the SNAP challenge achieve right now when folks don’t have a SNAP benefit to rely on?

You can do something similar, even if it’s just to pull back on DoorDashing one night and sending the amount of your would-be order to area food banks. Your one Chipotle order could provide 60-80 meals through your food banks.

I can’t promise I will be able send that much every week of November, but I *am* confident we will save/send something every week.

Instead we are going to use what we already have, buy a few fresh things each week as needed, and pull back on stocking up on things. We tried that out this week and we were able to eat just fine and send about 70% of our typical grocery spending to an area food bank.

I usually spend about $150 at the grocery store each week on our usual groceries, while also consistently shopping sales to back fill our freezer and pantry as I see sales crop up.

I am going to set a goal of eating down as much of our existing food in the pantry and freezer as possible in November with the goal of sending our grocery savings to area food banks.

So YootyMom and Dem Chirrens™️ are doing a different kind of SNAP challenge for November.

According to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, this number went up a few dollars in FY2024 to $189 per person per month.

According to the USDA annual report for FY2023 (their most recent), the average SNAP benefit was $174 per person.

Years later, I did it again with a family of 4. I can’t remember off the top of my head, but I believe at the time it was like $350-ish dollars a month for 2 adults and 2 toddlers.