[dragnet2]

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

Gak

Looking sharp America

[TontoKowalski]

I wrote more on the Paltrow thread, but, in summary, my wife can take a $5 rotisserie chicken and stretch it to three filling and delicious suppers for the both of us.

Whatever happened to Home-Economics classes, where they taught people how to really cook and make the most of a food budget?

Home Ec probably wasn't as good as having a mother and grandmother teach you how to do this, but it was something, at least.

[fatnotlazy]

My Mom had a cookbook given to her when she got married in the late 1940s. In the back of the book was a section entitled “How to Feed a Family of 4 on $15 a Week.” The price may have gone up over the years, but some of the ideas I still use today.

If you have to live on a limited income, it's amazing what you can do to stretch the budget and still eat. The problem is the vast majority of assistance recipients don't want to make the effort.

[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.

[Bob434]

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

It’s pretty friggin tough to do- but the sad thing is that we’re getting to a point i n this country where this is becoming a reality situation for many while our government creeps keep giving themselves big fat ‘cost of living increases/bonuses’ that are 10’s of 1000’s of dollars a year MORE than many people get all year- and our government has the nerve to turn around and inform us, who struggle to get by on as little as %600 a month on many cases (bare minimum for SS and disability if you were unfortunate enough not to have had good paying jobs before you became disabled or retired) that there ‘has been no cost of living increase’ DESPITE food and oil prices going through the roof since this _resident took office 6 years ago!