The article I read was about food stamps. I'm not going to debate the food stamp issue, everyone needs to eat and when times are tough people need help.
What caught my attention from the article, written by a college professor, was the amount allotted per person.....$140. He said that wasn't enough.
That got me to thinking.....If a four person household had $560 per month to purchase groceries and were still going hungry......somebody needs to learn how to COOK!
I've always been under the impression that when times are hard, you learn how to improvise. You know, doing without some things that just aren't in the budget. So that brings me to the egg.
Eggs can be cooked a bazillion different ways. Let's see, there's sunny side up, hard boiled, soft boiled, poached, over easy, over hard, scrambled...you get the picture. $560 buys a lot of eggs. Sure, it would get boring eating eggs for every meal, but it would be better than going hungry. Plus there are a lot of amazing things to be done with left over eggs, and throwing them out isn't one of them. Mother used to make a mean creamed eggs on toast that was quite yummy and it never crossed my mind that money was tight, we were fed.
Maybe Home Economics should be a prerequisite for getting out of high school, better yet, junior high. Kids need to learn to cook and that not every meal has to come out of a pre-packaged unit.
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