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In our society we are obsessive about not blaming the "victim" for anything, but that won't help us address the US's problem with urban poverty and poor nutrition.

Societies all over the world have developed diets that have allowed people to survive and eat well on very limited budgets, but much of this knowledge has been lost in US inner cities.  That is why so many immigrant families eat so much better on equally limited budgets.

Just one example, we have had a series of au pairs to care for our kids.  One of the first was from Brazil.  We told her that we would buy whatever food she wanted, just add it to our grocery list.

Dried beans
Rice
Frozen tilapia 
Frozen chicken
Sausage 
Various greens, various vegetables.

Every meal she made for our kids was some combination of rice, beans, a little meat, and some vegetable/greens.  (and it was what she ate herself)

She was able to feed herself and our kids for a few dollars a day, and it was nutritious healthy food.  [/quote]

We just need to hire au pairs for everyone. Problem solved.[/quote]

What does it say about your argument that you are limited to playing dumb?

The point is obvious, with a little effort and a little knowledge it is easy to feed a family healthy nutritious food.  I have lived in the third world and see what real poverty looks like.  Skinny kids in rags collecting trash on the street to bring home (or sell) as fuel.

US urban poverty is a totally different type of problem.  People are paying more money to eat worse out of ignorance.

Go on Walmart.com and try pricing it out yourself. 8lbs dried pinto beans, $6.  10lbs rice, $4.60.  10lbs frozen chicken breast, $22.50.  12oz Frozen Kale, $1.  12oz Frozen collard greens, $1.  20oz frozen pepper and onion blend, $2.33.  3lb bag onions, $3.

22.50+6+4.6+1+1+2.33+3= $40.43

You could easily feed a family of 4 for a week on this.  It wouldn't be gourmet but it would be healthy.

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8 lbs beans is 6000 calories.
10 lbs rice is 5900 calories.
10 lbs chicken is 5000 calories
3 lbs onions is 600 calories.

My math isn't that good, but that's 17,500 calories. 2,000 calories a day is considered typical. In a week you need about 56,000 calories to feed a family of four.

You are suggesting a starvation diet. I can't take advice from someone so basically uninformed about nutrition.[/quote]

Protein and carbs are about four calories per gram and fat is nine calories per gram.  There are about 450 grams in a pound.
So 10 lbs of rice or chicken should be about 18000 calories.
Perhaps your source is saying cooked rice, and the chicken they have removed skin and bones, though that still wouldn't account for the difference.[/quote]

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