W IC and SNAP work great together. When shopping with both, always use your WIC benefits first. You will be amazed at how well this works. To show you how, use this activity for a month, or two.
1. Using your WIC EBT receipt, look at the total:
2. Every time you go shopping, write down your WIC total in a budget like this one:
3. Use a calculator to add up the weekly total across each row. The highlighted number is the amount you saved with WIC in one month! In this example, you would have saved $120.06. You did not have to use your SNAP or personal dollars to buy these nutritious foods.
4. On a sheet of paper, or on your phone, keep track in your own chart and save your SNAP dollars for non-WIC nutritious foods!