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I urge you not to use food insecurity in argument. Even outside food stamps, food is extremely affordable to eat perfectly healthy. If nothing else it's an education issue, not a food issue.

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/eat-for-1-50-per-day-layo...

No comment on job security or wealth inequality.

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There are other issues other than money with regards to the cost of food. Time is one of them. The poorer I was the less time I had. No the recipes would not have worked. Healthy food also not readily available. It is not typically an education issue. It also can be a form of addiction in a manner. Many people get addicted when they are young to eating a certain type of way. It can become virtually impossible for someone to break that addiction as they get older. They often get addicted as a child. Lack of healthy foods in many places is a real issue. I live and grew up here tight in the US. If there is a solution for this please do share. I have seen this trap of thought before, I was in it for a while.

In Britain, where food is more expensive than in the US, ignorance about how to eat affordably and well is a shocking poverty trap. Anecdotally, a family getting pizza delivered will be spending almost an order of magnitude more than they would need to by cooking a nutritious meal from easily available basic ingredients; that's fine for a treat, but if you are relying on it regularly to put food in your kids' stomachs it quickly becomes ruinous.

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