You are right. We are not on food stamps but we like fresh vegetables. We are growing radishes, onions, lettuce, cucumbers, squash, and tomatos in a 8ft by 15ft space in our backyard.
you get much bigger veggies growing your own too. any one of the squash, zuccini, or cucumbers i pulled off my plants last year was more veggie than a 4 pack of the same from the store.