One budgeting action in her control is to keep weekly groceries under $55. In October, Kerksick lined up for her first food bank, a Capital Food Bank program specifically for federal contractors and employees in the Washington, D.C., area to get shelf-stable pantry items and fresh produce.

There are ways, however, to stretch what you have without sacrificing the healthy side of eating. The key is "extenders" like rice or pasta and planning a cook-once-eat-twice-or-more approach to easily feed a family of four for under $10.

The harm isn’t just to the county residents who might go hungry or to the county, which will not get reimbursed for the assistance it provides, Picente said. No SNAP benefits means $7 million a month that’s not going into the local economy, he said.

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The ruling followed a complaint by a church group that sued the Trump administration over paying the benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The government said earlier this week that it planned to pay out partial SNAP benefits, with delays of weeks to months.

An effort to provide food to neighbors in need will get underway Friday afternoon in Dorchester County. The Lowcountry Food Bank will host a mobile food pantry at Woodland Middle School, where food will be distributed on a first-come,

The Community Services Agency advised people to keep using the remaining balance on EBT cards to purchase food. The county has 92,000 CalFresh recipients and the average monthly benefit is less than $200 per person.

Pork and poultry prices fell, so too did dairy prices, as sugar reached its lowest price since December 2020 due to production in Brazil and expected harvests in India and Thailand.