How To Double Your Food Stamps

							How To Double Your Food Stamps

You may have heard about the programs sprouting up in farmers markets
across America. The program goes by many names, but the mission is always
the same; double your food stamp dollars at the market.

Every time you go to a participating farmers market, you will find a
booth or a token machine that will exchange your food stamps for wooden
coins. These coins can be used to buy any food or food-bearing seeds or
plants at the market. The amount you withdraw will be taken from your
food stamps account, but for each dollar you exchange into wooden money,
you will receive an extra wooden coin, worth $1. That means that you can
spend twice as much as you intended or could afford at the market.

Anyone who is on food stamps can double their money at farmers markets.
This program is intended for users of EBT cards enrolled in the SNAP
program. Wooden coins intended for food stamp use only come as $1 coins
and are sometimes a different color than the wooden money exchanged from
a debit or credit card. There is no cost for exchanging your SNAP
benefits into wooden coins. There may be a charge for exchanging your
debit or credit card money into wooden coins however. Usually this does
not exceed $2.

Fruits and vegetables are great sources of vital nutrients and contain
plenty of fiber. Buy fresh local produce also ensures that you are
getting the maximum nutritional density from the food because it has not
been sitting in a store refrigerator going stale.

And produce is not all you can find at the markets. Fresh, organic meat
is usually available, along with bakery items, honey, and many different
garden plants and seeds. All of these things are available to buy with
food stamps at farmers markets.

You can use your wooden coins at any time of the year that the market is
open. That means if you didn't spend all of your coins this week, you can
go back next week to buy something with your coins then.

Most farmers markets open in the afternoon and   the farmers with the best
produce or the rarest edibles are usually sold   out within a couple of
hours. To ensure that you get the food you are   looking for, make sure you
get to the market when it opens and swipe your   EBT card for wooden coins
right away.

Click the links below for help in learning how to apply for food stamps.

http://www.howtoapplyforfoodstamps.org/
http://www.howtoapplyforfoodstamps.org/alaska/