>>Advocates argue that the $22-a-day food budget USDA currently sets for a family of four is woefully inadequate and relies on outdated, unrealistic assumptions. The market basket assumes a family eats more than five pounds of beans a week, for example. And outside studies have found that the food plan requires spending about two hours a day preparing meals, largely from scratch, at a time the average American family spends just a half hour on daily food preparation. Gee, I wonder why people have stopped cooking food from scratch? Maybe it's because they get enough in good stamps to buy only processed foods and precooked/microwave meals? Logically, the next step is for Uber Eats to accept food stamps so that the average family will spend zero time preparing food.