Live in Vegas near newish 99 Cent Store in middle class area. So 4 rolls of soft, 2-ply, 100 square per roll toilet paper costs only 99 cents. The other items would be also less expensive.

My argument against the welfare food allotment is that it falsely assumes recipients are physically and mentally healthy enough to cook (lifting a kettle of beans isn't easy if you're disabled or injured,) have the utensils including cookware needed, live in a very safe environment where a roommate won't steal your food or get the electricity turned off spoiling everything you've made etc.
Many welfare recipients have to move every few days just to find a secure place without extremely drunk and abusive landlords and neighbors.

Worse is if you're renting a room from someone as you can't afford your own place and that person won't tolerate the smell of beans cooking all day. Or if getting food aid requires you spend so many hours seeking work or attending training you don't have the time or energy to spend all day cooking IF you knew how to do so.

Knew an old, disabled man on food aid. He was very allergic to beans. Same problem with diabetics who aren't allowed to eat white rice, noodles, sugar, or white flour as it causes major health problems. Many people can't drink any form of dairy milk including powdered milk.

There's absolutely no fruit or vegetables in any form in this list. Nor is there any means to wash and dry dishes. Or to dry your body or wash your hair. Washing powder assumes you have a washing machine and/or coins to operate a public machine.

How would you wash your sheets and clothes by hand? Hope you have the physical strength. Where would you dry them? Many places don't allow clotheslines even if you had the rope.

Coffee is useless without paper coffee filters. Each person was told by state welfare authorities to find someone with which to exchange food. Excuse me? That's not all that easy for many people.

The entire system of welfare falsely assumes you have friends and/or family you can consistently rely on to drop everything and come help you without demanding payment in any form in return.

I've helped many, many poor and elderly and extremely sick people on food aid and welfare so I know a lot more than most about the system which is largely run by those who got their jobs because they know the right people.

I've yet to meet ANYONE who has an ounce of common sense, has ever been really poor, or even someone who really knows a person who is truly poor, disabled, seriously ill or so elderly they can barely survive on their own but don't have any alternatives. All of those working in government say the craziest things to those way too "out of it" due to the lack of mental or physical health to even process the most basic suggestions.

Sorry my post is so long but you really need to see why this list is totally impractical for so many.