Okeefenokee wrote:https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h-e- ... tid=653645
https://www.heb.com/product-detail/h-e- ... ice/123860
Bake the chicken.
Strip off the meat.
Put in large pot filled with water and bring to a boil.
Add rice.
Season to taste.
That's how you do it if you wanna be extravagant. If you're on a more meager route, only use half or a quarter of the chicken for each pot. I'd guess it gives you somewhere around 5 to 20 servings, based on how far you stretch the chicken, for less than ten bucks.
and now i have to make chicken and rice.
Yep.
But most of the poor have no culture to do those things, and a lot of them in the cities lack the ability to get to a large grocery store in the first place. They also lack kitchen space.
One thing we could do is build community kitchens that have large walk-in refrigerated areas that can be divided amongst families and a lot of ranges and ovens with lots and lots of counter space. You could offer them classes on how to cook these things and just provide the ingredients directly instead of an EBT card. Meanwhile you can couple the place with an after-school program for kids.
I am not sure if it would be cheaper than what we have now, but I think it would be healthier and better for people in the long run.
I'd love to go to community gardens and farms too. Give people a small plot of land to grow food on and have a larger community plot that everybody works on to pay for the cost of upkeep. They sell the produce of the community section and keep their own produce. If you combine that with community kitchens, you can start to offset a lot of these costs since the people are producing a lot of their own food.