I grew up in a large family. At times my dad earned a very modest income. My mother was a full-time homemaker. She compensated for this buy cooking all of our meals from scratch with basic ingredients. You can actually get the cost per meal down quite low when you cook this way, and it’s healthier.
She would go ballistic whenever the school sent home letters promoting the free lunch program.
I wouldn’t mind my tax money going to cooking and nutrition classes instead of EBT cards-at the nearest food market out here every woman you see using one weighs at least 250 lbs and when she starts putting stuff on the checkout counter it is easy to see why...
I grew up on a small family ranch inhabited by my parents, sibling, two aunts and their husbands and kids. My dad and one of the uncles were in the AF, so they were off someplace else a lot of the time. Fresh food was all there was-it came from the livestock and garden, and my family was very into healthy eating-the 1st time I had a frozen dinner was when I did a sleepover at a school friend’s house in town-the crap tasted like Styrofoam insulation with tasteless gravy-horrible stuff.
I still eat the fresh way-no processed food. My 1st husband was a ranch kid, too-so we lived as far from the city as practical, cooked and ate fresh food-when he was in the AF and didn’t have much rank-convenience food would not have been financially practical even if we had wanted it