"Just cook some beans and rice and throw in some cheap meat..."

[Trillo]

35. Cleita, I was just making a passing comment.

I can't afford those prices you quote. I don't care for brussels sprouts, perhaps because I never thought to fry them in olive oil (which itself is pricey). I've never lived in South America, no where but USA.

I do know that were I to pay some grocery store's prices for tomatoes, it wouldn't save much money vs buying the refrigerated kind of salsa with all the preservatives. I've often found that pricing in some grocery stores as suspect.

As it is, I agree with you that plain beans and plain rice is not the most appetizing of foods to eat. However, if those items are prepared well--something that homeless folks would not be able to do, even folks trying to follow recipes it would take them some time to learn how to do so if they could filter out all the dreck recipes--then you couldn't serve me another meal I'd like any better.