sweets

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WSJ: How are consumers responding to new restrictions on what shoppers can buy with food stamps, including sweets in some states?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

The nuts and traditional sweets she would offer guests now cost three times what she normally paid.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

"We'd be busy getting ready … cleaning the house, shopping for new clothes, sweets and snacks," says Mina, a woman in her 50s in Damavand, northeast of Tehran.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

Hossam al-Shafa received Eid clothes and sweets for his three children from a local charity.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

The shop owner had just finished setting up a tidy pyramid of fresh-baked sweets: golden egg-flour cakes, the insides probably stuffed with sweet beans or pineapple jelly.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat