Nutritional Food Vouchers (WIC)

WIC (Women, Infants, and Children)
WIC provides Federal grants to States for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk. (http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/)


Wic is program that intrigues me.  My children were on WIC.  WIC is a good program however, there are many downsides to it.  When children turn five they are dropped from the WIC program.  Which leads me to question do children who turn 5 not deserve proper nutritional supplement any more.  With the way the vouchers are made anyone can cash them. The area that I currently reside in drugs are very bad and people trade them for drugs just as they do their food stamps.  I quit the WIC program because they do not provide soy milk to children with allergies, and my son is on soy milk.  However, the WIC program did provide soy milk when he was an infant.  This past October I found out that they now provide soy milk for older children but it is not a kind my son will drink.


With WIC you can get milk, eggs, cheese, cereal, wheat bread, 100% juice, and peanut butter, etc.  You can now get fresh fruit vouchers.  At proper times throughout the year one can get farmer's market vouchers.