[Katana]

heh heh yeah it definitely isn't easy when 90% of the food out there is total shit. eating out though is probly one of the worst things you can do IMO though. I guess I'm "lucky" that I don't make enough money to afford to eat out lol. the poverty diet works people!!

No, no it doesn't. While fast food and most other places to eat out ARE just as bad, true poverty food consists of tons of sodium and carbs == FATTENING. At least some restaurant food is actually plenty good, you just have to be picky, just like at home. You also need money to fucking afford such food.

well yeah I guess it takes a combination of poverty and smart decisions I eat pretty healthy though only spending 50 bucks a week on food.

Wow, that's our budget for 2 weeks...for 2 of us!

Heck, I think we're trying to survive on even less than that! Not by much compared to you Katana, but... Sorry Goodwill but you don't seem to understand just what broke means. You're poor, sure, maybe even in poverty too, but there's poor and then there's OMG how do you even survive. When you truly live hand to mouth like we do, then there's no way to afford decent food, period. You take the handouts you're given, buy what you CAN and just deal with it. My BF has been at a job the last few months that payed only 10.75/hr, TRYING like hell to get a better one, and only today got accepted in as a temp at a new one at 12/hr to start, with a raise as soon as he's officially hired in. I've been trying unsuccessfully to get a job myself. Katana is obviously in similar straits.

My partner works 10 hrs a week to earn minimum wage (£6.70) and has to pay a whole weeks wages just to afford the bus there and back each day.
And our housing benefit got cut by about 16% for the next year because of some bullshit mistake they made overpaying us while i was working
Our rent is about £120 higher than our housing benefit so somehow out of the £200 my partner has left over after his bus fares and the £200 I get from jobseekers allowance we have to pay our council tax (£60), electric(£40), water(£30), insurance (£20), phone bills (£30), laundry tokens (£20), and our rent (£120)
Leaving us £80 or so for the month