How about showing people how to make their own pasta for much less than store bought pasta? How to use bargain cuts of meat, how to end the cycle of box meals and live better?
Nope, instead he chooses to emulate how he believes poor people should eat.
Yet another opportunity to educate people wasted.
I eat for less than $1.48 per meal - everyday!
I quit eating the processed crap that passes as food, don’t eat anything frozen, and 75% of my food intake is fresh and organic. It is not hard to do, but you do have to actually cook. I do eat meat or fish once a day as well, and my per meal average cost is still in the $1.05 to $1.20 range.
I lost over 100 lbs in 6mos by eating real, whole foods and am healthier than I have been since high school. Convenience crap is killing us all - I wish I had figured it out 20 years ago!
How much is dirt? Free.
How much is a wooden pallet you can pull out of almost any dumpster in almost any business district in America? Free.
Build a planter or planters. Plant tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, lettuce, beans, peppers, herbs, etc. This is something almost any apartment dweller can do.
In no time at all you’ll be eating on a lot less than $1.48 per meal, and eating all you can eat. And “eating healthy” to boot.
Buy olive oil, condiments, spices, rice, dairy products, chicken (at less than $2/lb) on sale at the supermarket or at a discount grocer.
Food is essentially free in America. Clean water is free and abundant. There is no reason for anyone to be hungry in America, or to have dysentery. But don’t tell elites like Batalia that.
Don’t tell them that people actually do starve to death by the millions in N. Korea or are severely malnourished and forced to drink water contaminated with raw sewage in any number of socialist hellholes around the world.
According to the narative, America is supposed to be an evil cold-hearted country of awful, selfish, rich demons who, despite only making up 1% of the population are successfully engaged in a sinister plot to starve the other 99% to death.
Cry for the poor 99% who are helpless to do anything about it.
Food stamps were never intended to supply ALL the food for a family but to supplement the grocery budget. When did it change?
This is life in Obamaville.
I think Mario could “flywheel” through a week of food stamps by just living off of his stored fat.
$1.48/person per meal?
That one of these cracker packs per meal, per person:
http://www.lance.com/products/sandwich-crackers/toastchee
Now could you live on $3 per meal ($9 per day) on food you cook yourself rather than restaurant food? Easily. You might have to skip the arugula with gourmet dressing and just eat iceberg lettuce with Kraft dressing for you salad - like 90% of the rest of the people in the country. And baked potatoes ($3 for a ten pound bag recently at the grocery), beans, rice andchicken ($0.79-$0.99 recently on sale) will show up a lot more often.
Considering that poor school aged children receive breakfast, lunch, and in some areas even dinner at school for free, then children only need to be fed on weekends.
$100 bucks a week for 3 people?
I could do that and still buy a box-’o- Brass every other week!
Food is cheap IF you know what/where/how to buy. As many post, the “day-old” bakery section, the “bruises and bumps” veggies and the “last-day-of-sale” meats are fabulous bargains. Perfectly good food that people turn their collective noses up at.
Food or Brass . . . Food or Brass . . .
A tear came to my I when I read about the sacrifice of Chef Batali. What a man! I recovered swiftly however. For those who have the stomach, check out “It’s Free Swipe Yo EBT” on You Tube. The Electronic Benefit Transfer are an improvement over Food Stamps. “A Los Angeles Times report also found California’s poor spent $69 million from January 2007 through May 2010 using their EBT cards on at least 14 cruise ships sailing from Miami and other ports, at Florida’s Walt Disney World, in Hawaii and Guam (!), and at hotels on the Las Vegas Strip.”