Most states have SNAP cards. Unless you have multiple kids and are a single mother, then you can get TANF cash, but it's highly unlikely. You have to be really needy and have kids in your household, and prove you're using the money right. SNAP means you can only buy food, and specific types of food, at that. My dad was on SNAP for a while, and I used to help him budget his food stamp amount. You can't use "food stamps" on prepared meals (aka expensive rotisserie chickens or sushi) or cigs/beer/lotto. They'll deny the entire purchase if you put it in your cart.
Some cities have fast food that take SNAP, however, which is about as "wasteful" as one can get with those benefits.
It's piss easy to get SNAP, sure, but that's why they make it so strict to use. You can't transfer your balance, and if you wanted to sell your card for pure cash to buy beer, you'd have to trust someone to go into a store, use your specific card, use your pin, return the card to you, and then pay you cash. And you'll probably get half the amount in cash than the food stamps are worth if you find a patsy to do that for you.
Plus, if you're under age 60 or don't have kids, you run out of SNAP after 6 months, and you can't really get it easily again. I had to re-file with my dad constantly, and the state of Texas only granted him food stamps because he's a senior citizen.