In all honesty people have and will always be able to get anything they desire with food stamps. They trade them for cash (2$ in foods tamps for 1$ in cash is a typical transaction) Then they can get booze, hookers or drugs. The worst i have heard about was the water wasters. The people in certain states who buy bottled water, go outside and dump the water to return empties for cash deposit. I dunno if i saw it posted here but it was pretty outrageous. One couple was seen dumping out the bottles around the side of the store. My point is that if someone really wants something then they can get it with food stamps. They can trade for cash and go to KFC .

You know i was homeless once and lived in a tent for 4 months in a desert until i got a job and got a place to live again. Lemme tell you this. I never complained once about not having prepared once!!! There are plenty of non junk food items in cans that you can eat. This includes veggies, fish and meat. You have tuna, salmon, roastbeef in cans, sardines, potted meat, vienna sausages, Chilli, FREAKIN SOUP!!! (i dont care about bitching about salt content.. soup is healthy), chicken, spam, oysters, FRUIT!!

Then there is other items not in can like fresh fruit, peanut butter, bread, jerky, nuts etc. Being homeless does not mean you need prepared food or that you cannot eat healthy. Man a big jar of peanut butter and a couple loaves of bread go a long way. I had a diverse selection and variety.

Also note that there are places that serve hot meals to the homeless. Sally's (salvation army) here serves cold lunch every weekday and hot dinner every weekday. There a church that does a hot meal buffet pot luck style dinner in the city park once a month. I am sure every location may differ but you get my point.

Freakin taco bell? your kidding me right? Ok so now we compound the issue with obesity from eating this junk 24/7?? Not to mention the health effects. I mean no fast food is good for you ALL THE TIME period.

You can get by without unprepared food quite fine. Hell i even had a makeshift grilling pit dug into the ground with a old rack from the inside of an oven i found to make the grill surface. I had hot food plenty of times (and yes i know some live in big urban settings where this isnt possible)

You also can talk a convenience store clerk into letting you use the microwave to heat up your food if they arent an asshole etc, and your nice about it. One clerk in a store told me to come by whenever i needed to when he was on shift to heat up my food. Which honestly i didnt really need all that often.

NO TO FAST FOOD... thats just ridiculous..