El Santo Vago

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Important chart.

Great chart, yes. (And I plan to refer to it, too.) But I still go back to what Latoya Peterson at Racialicious said regarding the privilege of cooking food on a budget (emphasis mine):

I have a memory, from long ago, where I am sitting in the parking lot of a McDonalds, with my mom, trying to count out 63 pennies from the floor around the car, the change jar, and the pavement around the car in order to purchase two hamburgers from McDonalds for our evening meal. Cheap food exists for a reason. 63 cents doesn’t go far in the grocery store if you want a hot meal, and have no where for food prep. (Something that people also conveniently forget about – a lot of eating well on a budget requires prep with at least a hot plate, running water, and basic utensils. If you don’t have these things, you have to eat ready made food. Needless to say, living out of a car doesn’t provide you with consistent access to these things.) But a whole hamburger meant a lot to a seven-year-old stomach that was going to go hungry. What kind of day is that? These are broke people choices.

True, and I agree with Latoya’s post, but this is still useful for those under the poverty line who do have the privilege of having the means to cook (such as myself).