Lori has made another shopping trip. We now have $111.22 remaining on our imaginary EBT card. We have until December 22 before we get another 'deposit' to the card. We still spent more than typical with extras purchased for holiday baking. We don't expect to have any more of that spending. From now on, the major purchases will be for our typical eating and between what we have on hand and the remaining funds, we should be fine.
As far as holiday baking goes, since Thanksgiving Lori has made ~100 cinnamon rolls for Breakfast with Santa, and 3 dozen oreos. Both took some special ingredients that would not have been purchased if we were just eating in our typical way. We believe that SNAP families would want to do holiday baking if their budgets allowed, (even though we don't think they'd actually make over 100 cinnamon rolls!) so we decided to see if we could make it work. So far, we've eaten well and stayed within our spending parameters.
We'll see how long this lasts.
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