The only way I managed to have somewhat decent meals while on SNAP was being lucky enough to have a decently sized discount grocer nearby.

That also meant all the meat I bought was only 2-3 days from the sell-by date, and they weren't fucking around with that. If you didn't freeze it, it started going off quickly. Most of my produce came from cans or microwave bags, anything "fresh" was as close to going off as the meat. Dry goods were a mixed bag of overstock, damaged out, and sold so poorly in other stores it got shunted off to discounts just to move.

The freshest things they got in were milk and eggs. Those sold out within the day of delivery. If you couldn't get there early, you went without.