How are you stretching your dollar right now?

“We’re eating a lot of rice and noodles, surviving on like soup and vegetables,” said Toni Breshers.

Breshers typically receives about $480 a month in SNAP benefits for her and her son.

In her account right now?

“Sixteen cents! I’m gonna be honest, like 16 cents,” she said.

Breshers said she considers herself blessed to have a car and be healthy enough to pick up some jobs.

“I’m able to go, like, DoorDash and do stuff like that to… how do you say, fill the void that we don’t have for the moment, you know? But what happens when that dries up, too?” she said.

That’s why, even though she’s been to H-E-B’s Feast of Sharing event for the past few years, this one is different.

“This is a means because we’re supplementing for not having food s

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