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That was the claim for why Trump was elected.
Trump’s agriculture secretary claims meals ‘can cost around $3’ as food prices surge
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Americans can meet their nutritional needs on just $9 a day, claiming that one health meal “can cost around $3.”
According to the Consumer Price Index, food prices continued to rise in December, climbing 0.7%, which was the largest month-over-month increase since October 2022. Produce prices jumped 0.5% while coffee spiked 1.9%. Beef rose 1% last month and 16.4% from the year before.
On Wednesday, Rollins appeared on NewsNation, where Connell McShane noted the government’s revamped food pyramid and asked how the increase in grocery prices could affect some Americans’ ability to eat healthy and affordably.
“We’ve run over a thousand simulations,” Rollins said. “It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a, you know, corn, tortilla, and one other thing. And so there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money.”
I read on another site that what she said was right. A person can eat for 3 dollars per meal. However, the meal would not provide enough calories to meet human needs.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines one portion of chicken as 3 ounces when cooked. For this estimate, we're defining "a piece of broccoli" as 1 ounce, since an entire head is usually around a pound. So, based on that math, Rollins is right. The meal she described would average out to about $0.68 per person before that "one other thing" is added.
The question now is whether the meal Rollins described is healthy.
While the government's new guidelines don't give specific advice for how many calories a person should eat, the general guideline is 2,000 calories per day.
A three-ounce portion of chicken breast is between 120 and 160 calories, one broccoli floret is between 1 and 3 calories and one 6-inch corn tortilla is 50-60 calories. That means this meal would range anywhere between 171 and 223 calories (again, not including the undescribed "one other thing.")
Assuming a person ate three meals a day with no snacks, that means the fourth item would need to be 495 to 444 calories to meet the 2,000/day requirement.
Trump’s agriculture secretary claims meals ‘can cost around $3’ as food prices surge
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Americans can meet their nutritional needs on just $9 a day, claiming that one health meal “can cost around $3.”
According to the Consumer Price Index, food prices continued to rise in December, climbing 0.7%, which was the largest month-over-month increase since October 2022. Produce prices jumped 0.5% while coffee spiked 1.9%. Beef rose 1% last month and 16.4% from the year before.
On Wednesday, Rollins appeared on NewsNation, where Connell McShane noted the government’s revamped food pyramid and asked how the increase in grocery prices could affect some Americans’ ability to eat healthy and affordably.
“We’ve run over a thousand simulations,” Rollins said. “It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a, you know, corn, tortilla, and one other thing. And so there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money.”
I read on another site that what she said was right. A person can eat for 3 dollars per meal. However, the meal would not provide enough calories to meet human needs.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines one portion of chicken as 3 ounces when cooked. For this estimate, we're defining "a piece of broccoli" as 1 ounce, since an entire head is usually around a pound. So, based on that math, Rollins is right. The meal she described would average out to about $0.68 per person before that "one other thing" is added.
The question now is whether the meal Rollins described is healthy.
While the government's new guidelines don't give specific advice for how many calories a person should eat, the general guideline is 2,000 calories per day.
A three-ounce portion of chicken breast is between 120 and 160 calories, one broccoli floret is between 1 and 3 calories and one 6-inch corn tortilla is 50-60 calories. That means this meal would range anywhere between 171 and 223 calories (again, not including the undescribed "one other thing.")
Assuming a person ate three meals a day with no snacks, that means the fourth item would need to be 495 to 444 calories to meet the 2,000/day requirement.
