"You can feed 4 people on $300 a month.
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Suppose you *could* through constant labor, strenuous planning, & deprivation manage to feed yourself & your family on a tiny budget, that would still be extreme poverty.
I hate that people who aren't in poverty try to explain to those who are "no, really, you can survive. You just need to find a way to suffer a little more."
The problem is not a lack of ingenuity & creativity. The problem is poverty. No one should have to struggle every moment of every day just to live.
@artemis That's not budgeting, that's a famine in a supposedly rich country imposed on the poor by the rich because they didn't want to share.
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@Printdevil @sinvega @gwynnion @melindrea @artemis this is something that really pisses me off with a lot of the budget cooking recommendations stuff. What if you only have 30 mins between shifts? What if all you have to cook on is a single hot plate? This is why I really like Jack Monroe's books. They lived on an incredibly low income and understand what it's like. Their book "tin can cooks" is useful for esp food bank users who often get stuff in tins.
@quixoticgeek @Printdevil @sinvega @gwynnion @melindrea @artemis
A long time ago there was a great journalism piece that went into all of the reasons large portions of Baltimore (USA) have to rely on fast food for their diet: food apartheid w/ lack of grocers, tenements infested with rats and roaches so you can't store food, and since utilities were included in rent in most places, your ability to use your stove or oven depends on your landlord paying the electric bill. Many don't.
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