Royce Charles Lamberth is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, who formerly served as its Chief Judge. Since 2015, he has sat with the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas at San Antonio, Texas.
In fact, weâre not spending enough on food stamps. The need for food assistance is greater than food stamps can fill, and the benefit amount is too low to allow a family to purchase an adequate, healthy diet. The average monthly food stamp benefit per person is only $133.85, or less than $1.50 per person, per meal. Between 2009-2011 the purchasing power of food stamps declined by about 7%, or $47/month for a family of four, due to inflation in the cost of food.
For females, the average cost of groceries for 1 person per month is about two hundred eighty-three dollars ($283). For males, the average grocery bill for 1 person per month is closer to three hundred twenty dollars ($320). You can view the raw data at USDA.f course, the average cost of groceries for 1 person per month will vary throughout the United States, even within the contiguous 48 states, not to mention Hawaii and Alaska.