If you are receiving SNAP benefit payments, that is money from the former Food Stamps program, you can also save money on your Thanksgiving and Christmas purchases. One of the most common recipes for Thursday, November 28 is roast turkey with herb butter.
The ingredients you will need for it and the SNAP-eligible items will be: whole turkey, unsalted butter, fresh herbs such as sage, thyme, or rosemary, garlic, lemon, salt, and pepper. Well, if you find it in the grocery stores because they have not yet run out of stock, you will be able to buy them all using Food Stamps.
Can SNAP benefits buy the ingredients for cranberry sauce with orange cinnamon?
Since all you need to buy for the cranberry sauce with orange cinnamon is fresh cranberries, orange juice and zest (citrus peel), sugar, ground cinnamon, and water, Food Stamps benefits will allow you to get all of them.
Of course, as long as you have enough money on your SNAP EBT card. So, it will definitely help you prepare a delicious meal for Thanksgiving Day. Since it does not include any of the non-eligible items you are not allowed to buy using Food Stamps, which are:
SNAP Households CANNOT Buy with Food Stamps:
- alcoholic drinks or spirits, like for example wine, beer, or whiskey
- pet foods
- household supplies like paper products, cleaning items
- cosmetics or hygiene items
- live animals (with the exception of fish or shellfish just taken out of the water)
- hot meals
- vitamins
- medicines
- supplements
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2 Christmas recipes whose ingredients can buy SNAP
One dish many Americans love is prime rib with garlic and rosemary. The ingredients for this Christmas recipe SNAP can help you buy are: prime rib roast, garlic, fresh rosemary and thyme, olive oil, salt, and pepper.
With these 6 ingredients, you can easily prepare a Christmas meal using your SNAP benefits. Another thing for dessert you could prepare are gingerbread cookies.
All you will need is all-purpose flower, ground ginger, cinnamon and cloves, molasses, brown sugar, eggs, baking soda, and butter. Although some may think that molasses is not SNAP-eligible, even Walmart has it and you can buy it using Food Stamps.