[edcoil]

Maybe he should open his restaurants up to feed the poor. Most of the hard working middle class cannot even afford to eat at his restaurants after a long hard day of working to support these folks on food stamps that don't work at all.

[netmilsmom]

>>Also, the boys are eating school lunch, as those in low-income families do for free.<<

Bet they’re getting free breakfast too. Here in MI, if they get free lunch, they get free breakfast.

So let me get this straight. This dude is getting 31.00 per week, per person. That’s 124.00 per week or nearly 500.00 per month.

I WISH we had 500.00 a month for food. AND my kids are homeschooled so we feed three meals a day.

Tonight we had Bibimbap with tofu and egg, no meat. Anymore, meat is way expensive so we don’t eat a lot of it. With Mario’s skills he can make some fine meals on that much money. He will do what most families on EBT cards won’t, cook.

[NoGrayZone]

"Subsisting on food stamps, especially when food is made from scratch, is doable, he said, "as a way to live, but certainly not as a way to thrive. You can always have pasta with tomato, but that's not thriving."

I wonder if his restaurants accept EBT cards.

[kcvl]

https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/mariobatali

#FoodStampChallengeNYC
#trying
Dinner for 4 a bit high at $9.52

#gonnabehungrythursday! pic.twitter.com/2bw0y5Ta

[Tainan]

I cannot stand this orange shoed oaf.

He is also a BIG Obama supporter.

[risen_feenix]

If you have no income or minimal income, you get $200 per person per month, or $50 per week.

Not $31. This guy is a fraud.

You can easily eat on $800 per month for a family of four if you know how to stretch a dollar.

[jiggyboy]

That's $31 per person for the week..."I'm (expletive deleted) starving," said Batali...

$124 per month per person, and he's "starving"? He must still be thinking truffle oil, lobster tail, saffron, and wine are staples.