[livius]

That is a great idea. Once upon a time, prior to food stamps, people would go once or twice a month to local depots to pick up boxes of canned meat, milk, peanut butter, etc. This did two things: not only was it helpful to farmers, but it made the recipients actually cook or figure out what to do with the food (which was healthy, good raw ingredient stuff) rather than filling their cart with snack foods.

[Karoo]

I like it too.

[sheana]

We got commodities and boy could my grandmother cook with them. But yeah, you had to actually cook. After we stopped getting them we had a single lady with 3 kids move in behind us. She got commodities every month. And the day after she got them she would make the best fried chocolate pies for all us kids. 🤗

[Rebelbase]

If it can’t be cooked in a microwave oven there’s gonna be some starving people.