[A knight without armor]

Fresh produce and meat costs far less than the prepackaged frozen stuff..

Produce (even though it's August) and meat (even hamburger) cost a fortune around here. Pasta, potatoes and bread are cheap. And you'll get fat on them. Stouffer's frozen stuff is expensive, but Banquet frozen dinners go for $1 apiece; their potpies are $.69.


Produce and meat are sky high in my area, too. Pasta, potatoes, bread, white rice, oleo are cheaper. If you have $3 for the week you buy those things instead of a bag of grapes. Of course portion control is so crucial. That being said, people come home hungry and stressed and tired like everyone else and tend to overeat. They do get fat and humiliated. I know people who do this and I have my poor times, too. I suppose the sin starts at being poor and stupid and ignorant in the first place.

[Atlas Sneezed]

If you have $3 for the week you buy those things instead of a bag of grapes.

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Are you insane? No one proposes to feed a family on $3/week. (I could do it, but even feeding one on that would be tough.)

When you inject false premises, you end up with bad results.

Let's try $30/week for the welfare mom and her 2 kids. That does not force them to buy all potatoes and bread(which is rather expensive, by the way, but a $3 loaf of whole grain bread will last the better part of a week anyway.)