> as long as it is food and stuff available at a normal grocery store (so not including alcohol).

Not to dive too far down the “is a burrito a sandwich” rabbit hole, but it is interesting to think about this—a bottle of soda and a bottle of wine really aren’t that far apart: caloric, low-nutrient beverages whose primary purpose is pleasure and that cause some subset of the population to be unable to moderate their intake. Not advocating for government sponsored wine so much as exploring the idea of “what is food?” Soda barely qualifies, in my view. Really beer or wine may actually be a bit more food-like.

That said I agree that strict lifestyle prescriptions for people getting assistance are more often a kind of moral high horse than a useful policy.