Brown rice is 25 cents a pound, dry.
Kidney beans and black beans and pinto beans are maybe 40 cents a pound.
A whole chicken costs about as much as five Snickers bars or two boxes of Devil Dogs.
A couple of pounds of whatever fresh vegetable is on special at the local supermarket is about the same.
For a couple of normal people that's lunch and dinner for a week for about $20-25.
Oatmeal is about 50 cents a pound, honey is about 1 to 2 boxes of Devil Dogs a pound. That's breakfast for two normal people for a week for less than $10.
All you need is a little oil, some spices and water and an hour or two a week to have a healthy, filling albeit repetitive diet.
Eating donuts for breakfast, McDonald's for lunch and pizza for dinner while snacking on Milky Ways and Cheetos all day to a level that would sustain these women in their morbid obesity costs about the same per day.
They are malnourished by their own deliberate choice.
And it’s not like they don’t have the time to prepare the food, even the kind that actually requires cooking. I bought some collards the other day for $2. I will cook them, eat them a night or two and freeze the rest. Two dollars for about 5 or 6 meals. It just takes effort.
I love it when I read sensible posts! Everything you write on here not only is true but I think your last paragraph is probably pretty darn close to what these women are eating as their dietary habits.