As millions of people around the country continue to wait to see if their SNAP benefits will get restored this month, Hammond firefighters offered up some ideas to help stretch those benefits further.

Hammond Firefighters Local #556 posted on their social media page a week of recipes families can make for $15 or less. If stuffed shells that “make a weeknight feel like a date night,” pierogis that fit in your hand and a $10 stir fry named for Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, then they have you covered.

The idea wasn’t something they themselves came up with, but the need to help was something they weren’t going to ignore, Local #556 President Mike Hull said. Besides, having to feed all the firemen two meals a day every day on every shift, they’ve had to learn to sharpen their budgeting

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