This is provably untrue. It is such a tired trop to constantly refute. I guess I need to start a google doc with citations.

It is FAR cheaper to buy staples and cook your own food at home. And healthier. You do not need to eat farm to table veggies and local meat for this to happen.

Anyone who tells you it is cheaper to eat fast food and prepared junk foods is misinformed or outright lying with an agenda.

Just look at every single immigrant community that migrates here. They know how to prepare food for cheap.

Yes, it takes a time investment and skill. No, the trope of "single mother with 3 jobs" is not a thing. Those people are already feeding their family healthy foods for the most part since they have self-selected for caring and putting effort in.

If anything is a luxury it's being able to eat prepared fast foods for the majority of your diet. Growing up McDonalds was a twice a year treat for special occasions. Peeling potatoes and baking bread from actual flour and yeast was the daily chores.