The irony in some of these budgets is that you can eat pretty affordably...if you aren't overworked, and can afford to spend a huge chunk of your time cooking. But because you're working two jobs, this isn't the case.
Bulk rice and bulk dried beans are dirt cheap. Bulk vegetable oil, coconut milk, potatos/onions/garlic are all cheap. Homemade Thai curry is cheap and delicious, but ain't no one got time for that after working a double shift. Homemade Mexican rice and refried beans are likewise cheap and delicious, but they too take time.
And of course, if you're spending bare minimum on rent you're probably sharing a kitchen with a handful of other folks (or you only have a personal hotplate), which also sucks for cooking.
So if you live in a nice house with a nice kitchen and aren't overworked, yeah...food can be pretty cheap.
I was a kid in the 70s and Cracked magazine was a second rate Mad. I always saw them as Cracked was to Mad like Hustler was to Playboy. But now that I think about it, if you are too much younger than me then that comparison will be meaningless.
Corporate speak: Quiet Complaining - not being a team player and doing what we want you to do without another word, in exactly the way we think we said it, and bad-mouthing your benevolent employer to anyone and everyone who can hear
Actual meaning: literally just saying true things that have happened to you at your job as a result of the working environment or coworkers.
Example: "My manager canceled our holiday pay, made us work an extra 147 hours on holidays, and fired the project lead without warning to quickly cut costs and secure their own bonus which left us unable to complete 38% of our projects due to incomplete information that is no longer accessible"
