Potatoes also have enough nutrients that you can pretty much subsist on them alone.

Yeah! Let them eat beans!

In all seriousness, it's not just the money. It's also the time. Having a varied, healthful diet requires time, effort, skill, and education. If it's not our own, we'll end up paying someone else for it in one way or another. Many people are working multiple jobs to get by and don't have the luxury of spending hours shopping, cooking, and cleaning every day. You might point out that if they worked less, they could afford the time to buy cheaper food. Unfortunately, that won't make most of their other goods and services any less expensive. The Federal Poverty Limit is based on just covering rent. Minimum wage in most states at full time will put a person a little bit over that. With the utilities, transportation, and healthcare required to maintain a job, there may be very little left over for food.

This sounds depressing as hell, good work.

One of the few things I go back to the old site for is /r/eatcheapandhealthy - you need the time to make the food, but you can make very little cash go a long way, especially if you’re buying beans/lentils/oats dried and soaking them overnight rather than buying canned.

I wish life were that simple but being diabetic sucks and beans and rice put me basically in a coma

If I were to survive off only beans, what beans would I eat?

Ooh Fancy pants rich McGee over here

Fuck you

Yeah, it's actually insane how cheap the basic food is nowadays. I never understood these memes implying that people can't afford basic food anymore. But then again, I guess chugging 4 liters of coke a day can make a dent in food budget.

our budget grocery is a winco, and they do a pretty good job. it's rare you'll catch the wilty end of the produce cycle.

I'm able to utilize Lidl as well thankfully.