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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is possible to eat very cheaply if you know some basics of cooking and are willing to eat the same stuff over and over again.  Rice, beans, cheap cuts of meat.  Bananas.  Potato’s.  Certain vegetables like carrots or collard greens.

But it’s really hard to live like this consistently when people you know are eating chips and McDonald’s and cookies.  I think that’s why it can be easier for immigrants — if they are in a culture where everyone is eating simple hearty food, it feels less stigmatizing and less depressing.  But if you’ve worked two shifts in a job you hate and are going home to take care of your kids, it’s hard not to grab some chips.  If you know you can’t give your kids much. At least there’s store brand oreos.  I mean. I have a pretty easy job and plenty of money and I still can’t always make myself eat what I know I should.  It takes a lot of discipline to go through the store finding the healthy cheap food and then go home and make it.  [/quote]

Stop with the "working two jobs" thing.  Poor, native-born Americans using welfare are not working multiple jobs.[/quote]

This.  American born poor people aren’t even working one full time job.  It’s the immigrants busting their tail in multiple jobs- and ironically, the ones eating simple, inexpensive, cooked foods and not living on processed junk food. [/quote]

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