My two opioid pain killers Fentanyl and Oxycodone scripts would cost me approx $65.00 per month with out any benefits applied such as PBS concession card and not hitting the PBS safety net at a pharmacy. At present I am paying nothing for them as I have the cards for both PBS services.. The safety net finishes in the new year so will be paying the normal concession price of $6.60 per item.
You will not get a lot of lowish carb food for that $65.00, it would probably could be done if you had a push bike and go to some of the farms that have honesty box fruit and veggie stalls at the front gate. You will not get cheap meat here so you would have go veggie. There is the road kill option for meat if you are really hungry.
We get fruit veggies from the Sunday farmers markets where there are cheap bargains to be had, most of the produce is rejected items by the large supermarket groups that want unblemished stuff.
I have noticed all of the mainly unemployed people who make the most noise about not being unable to manage, all have high end mobile phones and are smokers on the tv news.
Never knock back free stuff, I was given a fruit and veggie tray last week by one of the Blue Care nurses who looks after my leg, carb wise I could not eat most of it. I accepted it in the spirit it was given me, as I could share it with my partner and neighbour.
I have probably got this thread all wrong.