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by learc83 2531 days ago
>Going to McDonalds is much more expensive, something like 20$ per day!

If you're ordering off of the value menu it's nowhere near that expensive in most of the country.

>rolled oats (70c per lb), Onions, potatoes, flax seeds, green peppers, bananas, whole wheat flour etc

Most of those particularly the wheat flour requires significant preparation--knowledge, time, a stocked and functioning kitchen.

A lot of those people in the bottom 10% of income in the UK aren't going to have an oven.

>With the proper education,

Yes, proper education, plus time, plus a working kitchen. 3 things that the very poor aren't likely to have. And keep in mind this was when you were a single college student, not a working single mother with 2 small kids.