How could she waste 29 dollars on that? Like she never has seen the food pyramid or didn't know how much groceries she needs during a week?
Back when I was a student, I rationed in the bad weeks on 5 euro per week. Adding a bag of potatoes or spaghetti could change everything.
29 dollars per week in a country with low minimum wage (fast food is so cheap, that you can't even cook for that price, thus eating out is more popular in the US) and impossible cheap meat. Because of legal usage of hormones in food industry versus European no hormones meat costing between 5 to 10 times more than American meat.
In 1614 John Woodall, Surgeon General of the East India Company, published "The Surgion's Mate" as a handbook for apprentice surgeons aboard the company's ships. In it he described scurvy as resulting from a dietary deficiency. His recommendation for its cure was fresh food or, if not available, oranges, lemons, limes and tamarinds, or as a last resort, Oil of Vitriol (sulfuric acid).
