[heartwood]

You can feed a family of 5 on 31 bucks a week...

On what? Road kill? Rice and dried beans?

I worked out a food budget of $3/day per person, allowing for some eggs, meat, fruit, vegetables, as well as rice and beans and oatmeal.

I really don't see how you'd do it for less than $1/day per person, especially if you're feeding a teenaged boy or laboring man.

[dragnet2]

I was being facetious.