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There is a difference between "on a budget" and "POOR." I really hope you're not the same person who posted below about how her $150k income means she knows poverty. I grew up in true poverty, where you couldn't afford to replace ruined clothing and had to scrape together every penny from between the couch cushions to pay the electric bill. If you have the flexibility in your budget to do things like buy in bulk when stuff is on sale, you're not "poor," you are on a budget. A person who is truly poor, especially one who is suddenly thrust into that circumstance, doesn't have the budget flexibility to just "build a pantry." If you buy all of the ingredient to make a big batch of soup, you're not going to be able to freeze that for future meals, you'll end up eating it for two meals a day all week until it's gone. And if you skip buying breakfast foods to get a bottle of olive oil, what are you going to do, drink the olive oil for breakfast? These are the things people who live "on a budget" don't understand about being poor. [/quote]

Oh for Pete's sake.  If OP is actually poor she can apply for SNAP and taker her child to school every day this summer for free breakfast and lunch (information I also posted).

If she is actually poor, that she can't afford a bag of dried chickpeas and some oil and some oats, then no, she ABSOLUTELY cannot buy the $3 hummus.  Hummus is WAY too expensive for a truly poor person.

So what exactly is your suggestion for OP?  I posted links to free meals in PG county and Free yoga classes, and recipes for DIRT CHEAP meals she could make for her kid.  What is your suggestion for her?   Cry?[/quote]

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