That is close to what I spend, and I am nowhere near starving.
Chicken or ground beef on sale. Beans, rice, canned tomatoes, spuds, carrots, frozen veggies, pasta, onions, bell pepper, tomato sauce, oatmeal, yoghurt. Frozen salmon when it is on a good sale.
Just have to shop carefully. I guess some folks think SNAP should pay enough for steak dinners. I know one guy on SNAP who blows his money on steaks and then bitches about running out of money by the end of the month.
Just have to shop carefully.”
It’s more than that. You also have to cook - from scratch. I would bet that there are many households which don’t even own a cookbook, don’t do any menu planning and wouldn’t dream of going on-line to download any recipes. See a whole lot of people at the grocery store who don’t have a list or coupons. People who make their money through suggestive selling just love them.