Economy

States push to allow rotisserie chicken purchases with food stamps

There has been a ban for decades on buying hot, prepared food through SNAP. 
Rotisserie chickens are on display at a Sam’s Club, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025, in Bentonville, Ark. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

At least six states are urging federal regulators to revisit a decades-old ban on buying rotisserie chicken with food stamps, an effort that has gained bipartisan momentum as Republicans have lined up behind the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda.

Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture this year for permission to allow purchases of rotisserie chicken or other hot, prepared food through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. 

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