I'mma tell you as an avid veggie eater: veggies are not cheap. The amount of leafy greens that will make someone full (and properly nourishing leafy veg: spinac

I'mma tell you as an avid veggie eater: veggies are not cheap. The amount of leafy greens that will make someone full (and properly nourishing leafy veg: spinach, kale, dandelion and beet greens, etc.) isn't cheaper. Poor people aren't living high on spinach and kale. They're eating butter sandwiches for lunch because they're too poor for nut spreads and jam. They're eating 5 boxes for 2$ mac dinners. They're checking which of the soup cans they bought on a 10 dollar for 10 cans sale years ago are still good (aka not puffy) even though they're long expired. The cheap vegetables are starchy roots, but even the 50c/lb carrots don't hold up to processed food prices. You can spread out 1 cup of rice with 9 cups of water as a soup. I was stirfrying cabbage with almost no seasoning. And it would still be cheaper and more filling to indulge in mac dinners and hamburger helper.