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Anyone in the US can go to a library and borrow a cookbook for free. If you are out of ideas you can do that too.

derefr 3y ago
Great, now I need to own a car and afford gas to drive 40mi to the nearest library. (More importantly, now I need to have a kitchen to cook in.) You realize that there are people who are homeless and who live in areas that don't have any support systems for homelessness (e.g. homeless shelters), right?
- charcircuit 3y ago
  Libraries can mail books to you.
  - ceejayoz 3y ago
    "To: Cardboard Box under the 5th Street Bridge"?
    - charcircuit 3y ago
      You can rent a mailbox if you don't have one.
      - ceejayoz 3y ago
        For free?
        charcircuit 3y ago
        No, but the ingredients for what you are cooking are not going to be free either.
        ceejayoz 3y ago
        I feel like you're unclear on what poverty, homelessness, and hunger are. You have proposed that a homeless person obtain a phone, find a library that'll mail books, obtain a mailbox, have a book mailed to them, presumably pay for return postage, all so they can obtain recipes to cook on a stove they don't have with utensils they likely lack with ingredients they can't afford. Homeless people aren't in that situation because they needed someone to write down "how to make rice in a pot", nor are they likely to have discretionary income for your proposals.
        charcircuit 3y ago
        >I feel like you're unclear on what poverty, homelessness, and hunger are. And I feel like you do not understand that the average American is not homeless. If you are homeless you are not going to be a person who is spending >$40/mo for food and needing a cook book to make cheap food interesting to eat. You will just buy cheap food until you bootstrap yourself back to a house and a stable job.
        ceejayoz 3y ago
        Scroll up to where this comments thread says "You realize that there are people who are homeless", then talked about a box under a bridge, then not having a mailbox. Who did you think we were discussing?
        charcircuit 3y ago
        >Who did you think we were discussing? People who spend >$40 per month on food who live 40 miles away from the nearest library.
- inglor_cz 3y ago
  YouTube has a lot of recipes, plus shows you exactly what to do - for people who haven't learnt to cook from their parents. But of course, there will always be people falling through any cracks. That does not mean that the original piece of advice isn't sound, though.
ryeights 3y ago
Dodging the question… provide me one example of a nutritious set of sandwich ingredients that can be procured at a cost of 43¢ per serving (assuming you spend a generous third of your $1.30 a day budget on just a sandwich). Bread alone would cost that much.

Great, now I need to own a car and afford gas to drive 40mi to the nearest library. (More importantly, now I need to have a kitchen to cook in.) You realize that there are people who are homeless and who live in areas that don't have any support systems for homelessness (e.g. homeless shelters), right?

charcircuit 3y ago
Libraries can mail books to you.
- ceejayoz 3y ago
  "To: Cardboard Box under the 5th Street Bridge"?
  - charcircuit 3y ago
    You can rent a mailbox if you don't have one.
    - ceejayoz 3y ago
      For free?
      - charcircuit 3y ago
        No, but the ingredients for what you are cooking are not going to be free either.
        ceejayoz 3y ago
        I feel like you're unclear on what poverty, homelessness, and hunger are. You have proposed that a homeless person obtain a phone, find a library that'll mail books, obtain a mailbox, have a book mailed to them, presumably pay for return postage, all so they can obtain recipes to cook on a stove they don't have with utensils they likely lack with ingredients they can't afford. Homeless people aren't in that situation because they needed someone to write down "how to make rice in a pot", nor are they likely to have discretionary income for your proposals.
        charcircuit 3y ago
        >I feel like you're unclear on what poverty, homelessness, and hunger are. And I feel like you do not understand that the average American is not homeless. If you are homeless you are not going to be a person who is spending >$40/mo for food and needing a cook book to make cheap food interesting to eat. You will just buy cheap food until you bootstrap yourself back to a house and a stable job.
        ceejayoz 3y ago
        Scroll up to where this comments thread says "You realize that there are people who are homeless", then talked about a box under a bridge, then not having a mailbox. Who did you think we were discussing?
        charcircuit 3y ago
        >Who did you think we were discussing? People who spend >$40 per month on food who live 40 miles away from the nearest library.
inglor_cz 3y ago
YouTube has a lot of recipes, plus shows you exactly what to do - for people who haven't learnt to cook from their parents. But of course, there will always be people falling through any cracks. That does not mean that the original piece of advice isn't sound, though.

ryeights 3y ago

Dodging the question… provide me one example of a nutritious set of sandwich ingredients that can be procured at a cost of 43¢ per serving (assuming you spend a generous third of your $1.30 a day budget on just a sandwich). Bread alone would cost that much.