Woman weeps to senator over Social Security cuts: "There's no way for me to eat less!"

[MADem]

171. You gotta pay the gas or electric to cook them, too, though.

And you have to have money to buy the crock pot or pressure cooker or whatever to cook them.

And you have to have the car, full of gas, to get to the supermarket to buy the beans. Or bus fare--if there's a supermarket on the bus line; otherwise you have to change buses and haul your groceries home lugging them up and down bus steps.

If you are living day to day and walking to the overpriced convenience store to get food, it can be a challenge for people to get all that healthy and tasty cheap stuff to make these "not hard" meals.

There's a lot more to it for many people than "Oh, just buy dried beans and spices that mean you can't buy your blood pressure meds this month."