[burkaman]

Please factor the following into your cost comparison:

- Extra time required to cook

- A home with a functional refrigerator, oven, stove, etc.

- Time and transportation costs to and from a grocery store. Remember that poor people tend to live much further from a grocery store than you're used to.

- More money required up front. If you have literally $20 in your bank account, are you gonna spend some of it on bus fare to get to the grocery store an hour away, buy $10 of food, and come home, or are you gonna get a $1 hot dog from the 7/11 down the street?