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I'm probably going to sound like a space alien, but enough beans to feed a grown man costs two dollars a day. The beans are nutritious and relatively palatable. When I'm left to my own devices, I eat mostly beans. Because I'm rich, I buy the canned ones so that I don't need to cook.
Potatoes also have enough nutrients that you can pretty much subsist on them alone.
Diabetes has entered the chat.
Edit: I assume the downvotes are for not contributing to the discussion appropriately. Fair enough:
While people can subsist on beans and rice and/or potatoes, they have a medium to high glycemic index. Also, to get adequate nutrition from them, one will take on a higher glycemic load. These are major contributing factors in diabetes and cardiac disease. It can be mitigated with preventative healthcare, which is something people living on these diets may not have reliable and affordable access to. People subsisting on starchy foods alone live sicker, shorter lives.
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.
luxury of spending hours shopping, cooking, and cleaning every day
luxury
Y'all need to sort out your country if this is deemed a luxury in America. Richest nation on the planet, my arse!
We're trying! It is not going well.
The US is in the top 10 but not the top 5 for GDP per Capita PPP, but it's not in the top 100 for wealth or income equality. The median wage has been diverging from the mean wage for quite some time. These problems are by no means exclusive to the US or even the Western World. Nonetheless, the poorest, fully-employed members of our workforce here still somehow live as if in a developing nation regarding access to medicine, education, technology, food, clean water, transportation, housing, physical security and other things that could help them advance.
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?
Chickpeas are my favorite. I enjoy the taste of them right out of the can. They dry ones are also good if soaked overnight in cold water and then eaten without further preparation. They become pleasantly crunchy, like nuts.
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.
My wife and I know how to shop, cook and are non-fat. We eat like kings on $300-$400 a month.