A spokesperson did say their analysis showed “hundreds of thousands” of other options to eat healthy for $3 a meal, built around foods including poultry, cottage cheese, frozen broccoli, sweet and white potatoes, frozen blueberries, whole grain bread and butter.

no beans or pulses lol

You always get the feeling this sort of thing is heavily informed by what I call “gas price thinking” in that the anchor point for prices is the cheapest once in a year fluke deal you could find and then assume that is what things cost all the time