This Mother Can't Buy Enough Food To Feed Her Kids As Panicked Shoppers Are Finishing Grocery

As coronavirus brings life to a standstill, the fear among people is monumental. With people having to stay put at homes, they are stocking up and emptying the grocery shops in panic.

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While some get lucky and pile up the essentials, others are finding it hard as they find empty shelves in stores, adding more stress in these tough times. One American group is finding it harder. The ones who avail the services offered by Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Woman, Infants and Children (WIC).

WIC participants - which includes pregnant and breastfeeding mothers with low incomes and children under 5 ¡ª are granted a monthly check, voucher, or card that they can use to buy food staples such as cereal, beans, eggs, milk, rice, and more.

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Now a mother has talked about the ordeal of dealing with such circumstances where they find empty shelves in grocery shops and can¡¯t buy enough food for her kids.

Kelli Sullivan, a 30-year-old teacher in Wisconsin, was reported by BuzzFeed News saying that she relies on WIC each month to buy milk, cereal, bread, yogurt, juice, cheese, eggs, peanut butter, beans, and fresh fruits and vegetables for her two young children.

The working mother has relied on a particular system where she always plans on stretching the food she buys with her benefits to last the entire month. But with grocery store shelves suddenly cleared out of WIC-eligible items, that strategy has been futile, and she¡¯s now struggling to feed her family.

It has become a case in point everywhere around the world. People are panic shopping, hoarding essential and leaving grocery shops empty.