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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe $3 Trump meal! ENJOY! Sec. Rollins has run simulations 😳😂😃🥸
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."

It took 1,000 simulations to learn this? Ask anyone on food stamps. They can tell you everything you need to know about feeding a family on pennies.
So basically every meal is 200 calories, thatll keep them hungry
"Our simulation says you shouldn't be hungry yet!"
Only one piece of broccoli?
Wait, I can have *two* sides now? Mind blown.
One doll. One pencil. One piece of broccoli. Enjoy, peasants











Prairie Gates
(7,278 posts)underpants
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Prairie Gates
(7,278 posts)Oh my God from Pluribus!
underpants
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tanyev
(48,707 posts)All in one meal.
Xavier Breath
(6,490 posts)Hugin
(37,485 posts)Efilroft Sul
(4,339 posts) One piece of broccoli = 3 to 5 calories
One chicken drumstick = 100 to 250 calories
One corn tortilla = 52 to 62 calories
So a "meal," minus this "one extra thing," could be as low as 155 calories. She must be getting recipes from the Hanoi Hilton cookbook.
Prairie Gates
(7,278 posts)Motherfucker, I don't need any "simulations." I go to the friggin' grocery store multiple times a week and make meals for a family of four. These people need "simulations" to tell them how much a meal costs? Most people need their own damn eyes and a checking account balance.
A thousand simulations? What the fuck?
That's really the most insulting part of it, however comical their resulting meal is.
Efilroft Sul
(4,339 posts)It's so damned infuriating.
Arazi
(8,727 posts)malaise
(293,135 posts)Rec
underpants
(195,101 posts)So how many calories could they really need anyway
Efilroft Sul
(4,339 posts)jmowreader
(52,918 posts)"Some people say that life is good, give thanks for what you have
When all you have is nothing, nothing makes you glad."
peggysue2
(12,407 posts)Donald J. Trump. Hum-hum, good.
Okay not so good. But we would have leftovers.
As for Rollins? What a waste. She'd be better placed in a detention/concentration camp.
Cruelty is the point!
Never forget, never forgive.
underpants
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peggysue2
(12,407 posts)Healthcare sustains and extends life and well-being as does nutritious food.
Unfortunately, nothing that actually helps people is on Agent Orange's agenda.
malaise
(293,135 posts)From the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/trump-agriculture-secretary-brooke-rollins-food-guidelines
The US agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, is facing ridicule from congressional Democrats among others after claiming Americans can save money and have their meals align with new Department of Health and Human Services dietary guidelines by simply eating a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla and one other thing.
One representative even called the remarks a slap in the face to struggling working families.
Rollins made the remarks during an interview with NewsNation in response to a question about how average Americans will afford adapting their meals to the White Houses updated food pyramid, which emphasizes red meat, full-fat dairy and saturated fats while discouraging ultra-processed foods and sugar. The rising cost of groceries has been a major issue for Americans in recent years.
How does cost play into this? host Connell McShane asked. And I guess the reason I ask is that Im thinking back to the [consumer price index] report that just came out, and although inflation overall, as you know, kind of held steady, 2.7% an annual rate on the consumer level, we did see grocery [prices], especially month to month, jumping up. And so it still costs people a lot to go to the grocery store. When is that gonna change?
Rollins answered: I think the question youre asking, and its a really important one, is while were asking Americans to reconsider what theyre eating, are we actually asking Americans especially those who are living on the margins are we asking them to spend more on their diet?
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These people are depraved
Kick
Emrys
(8,942 posts)or are they expecting people to eat them raw, as nature presumably intended, or perhaps skewer them on a curtain rod and char them over a bonfire under whatever overpass they've been able to secure by mortal combat?
GoCubsGo
(34,685 posts)Take that $3 meal, and shove it up your fucking, self-righteous ass. I guarantee you that disgusting, little scumbag never struggled for a minute of her useless waste of a life.
Rhiannon12866
(250,741 posts)DET
(2,377 posts)Ketchup is a vegetable (Saint Ronnie).