Reply #180: Diabetics can eat pasta and beans.

[wickerwoman]

They just need to know how many carbs are in the pasta and adjust the amount of insulin they take accordingly (assuming they are insulin dependent). And the fiber in the beans means the pasta carbs don't hit the blood sugar as fast or as hard as say a Snickers bar or Kraft Mac & Cheese or Ramen noodles all of which are the realistic alternatives if you're on foodstamps.

Hard to see what a diabetic is doing arguing that the government banning soda, candy, chips, etc. from foodstamps is going to make life harder for her. If you can't eat pasta and beans, what difference does it make that you can't buy Doritos and Mars bars with foodstamps?

If anything it will make things easier because it will give gas stations and other alternative food sources in poor neighborhoods more incentive to stock fresh fruits and vegetables (as they do in most other countries in the world).