“You smoke out of anxiety because you don’t have the food you need,”
Wow. Winner of the most ignorant statement ever! Cigarettes are an expensive habit. I’m not knocking it, I’m just stating the financial truth. If this person can spend $5/day on them, then he can buy food. His diet wouldn’t have much variety but he wouldn’t starve.
Five dollars also buys a lot of vegetable and fruit seeds. Grass clipping and newspaper mulch are free. Just sayin’.
The vast majority of that $5.00 goes to... government in the form of taxation.
Those evil progressives are stealing food off his plate.
/johnny
Cigs $5, bag of potatoes $5.
We are spending $50k per person on the poor and they are still going hungry? Time to identify the real reasons.
5 dollars a day is 150 dollars a month or 35 dollars a week.
35 dollars a week gets me a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk 1/2 gallon orange juice a dozen eggs, and a pound of bacon, 2 pounds of hamburger, a small pork loin roast, a couple of packages of frozen vegetables, a pound of peanut butter, some condiments, butter, and some fruit to round it all out.
The condiments and peanut butter will carry over to the next week when I can do the above or buy dry cereals or oatmeal, get several bags of dried beans and vary other purchases to include soups. Chicken is still relatively cheap even if one must have the more “expensive” skinless boneless chicken breasst. As a matter of fact, I could live fairly well on 100 dollars a month food wise and use the 50 dollars saved to have a basic internet with which to hammer leftists with on line!
In short, if one knows how to cook, one can eat well on very basic items for 35 dollars a week. You won’t eat steak regularly, but one could enjoy a good pasta with sauce and have some left over for the next day as well. I do most of the shopping in my house and the basic items aren’t suffering as much with inflation as are the frilly prepared foods and fancy meats and deli items. 10lbs of yellow potatoes are about 3.50 at my stores and can last a single individual a whole month.
And as you stated, one can buy seeds and grow a heck of lot more fresh.
I can live on far less than $5 a day for food (and have done so, adjusted for inflation). A dozen eggs gives you two eggs a day for about $0.30 a day in protein, and under $1 a day even with canned tuna included alternate days. A pound of pasta (rice, grits, taters, etc) gives you the calories you need for an active day at less than $1 a day. Throw in $1 worth of the fruit that is in season or on special, and $1 of a fresh veggie that is in season, and you’re good. That’s without trying to develop gardening skills, or if you’re in a neighborhood where the ferals destroy anything good and productive, as I was.