I would 100% support this as the only form of government "food stamps." Anyone can walk in and get a week's supply. It would sustain life. You want something different? Be creative. Maybe work.
That’s how the USDA food programs were run, prior to the 1990s. “Food Stamps”, and WIC. Flour, rice, cooking oil, pasta, vegetables, etc.
The problem with issuing commodities, there emerged a large and ready market for selling the goods for cash, usually about 10 cents on the dollar. The cash was used to buy booze, drugs, cigarettes, whatever wasn’t allowed.
The quacks in academia lobbied to have direct (more or less) cash payments and allow those getting “benefits” to purchase whatever they want. They reasoned that it was “degrading” for people on relief and other pseudo-intellectual twaddle.
The inflationary pricing effect of billions going out every month are staggering, firms like WalMart love it. Congress built in a 25% increase in “food stamp benefits” just recently in response to the latest bout of monetary inflation.