In case anyone was worried

I finally received notification last week that my application for food stamps had been approved! Based on the date of the letter, it looks like someone approved me within hours of my last phone call to the social services office, which fact would suggest that calling the department is a good way to get results if you did not know about all the other phone calls that never achieved anything at all.

Anyway, I have spent approximately $60 of those benefits in the last few days, which leaves me with $708 to play with. Yes, that's right: since food stamp benefits are retroactive, and they took so bloody long to find someone who could clear their schedule and deal with the massive backlog of applications they have in their office, I received more than seven hundred dollars worth of benefits all at once. Benefits which may be spent only on food. My medication may be making me hungry, but it's not making me that hungry. So mostly I've been buying sensible foods (bread, yogurt, cheese, beans, frozen veggies), stocking up on nonperishable items that are good to have around when I'm too tired to go to the store (dry milk, peanut butter, canned chicken), and splurging on a few things I might not ordinarily buy. (If anyone's interested, today's lunch was chatpate choley. With pierogies.)

For those who don't know, food stamps cannot be used to buy:

1. any nonfood item, such as pet foods; soaps, paper products, and
   household supplies; grooming items, toothpaste, and cosmetics
   
2. alcoholic beverages and tobacco
   
3. vitamins and medicines
   
4. any food that will be eaten in the store
   
5. hot foods that are ready to eat
   
6. any food marketed to be heated in the store
   

This means that you cannot use food stamps to buy a nice, nutritious meal from the supermarket soup & salad bar, but as long as you have enough benefits to pay for 'em, you can stock up on Mountain Dew, chewing gum, and caviar. So I'm curious: given the restrictions above, if you suddenly had over $700 to spend on food and nothing but food, what would you buy?