Please if you want to save money... don't get this game.
In most normal games, a market helps you distribute food in you're city. Since Caesar 4 is not a normal game, obviously markets won't ditribute food. Everybody in my city is unhappy! And then there are those annoying advisors that say 'sire the people are starving". I. KNOW. THAT.
In the game I'm told that first you need to built a farm. Then you get plebs to work on it. Then, you build a storehouse. Then you need plebs working at the storehouse and you need plebs bringing food to the storehouse. Then you need to change the food to something the people will buy. So, you need to build a wineyard to make wine. Then, you've got plebs to work at the wineyard and plebs to get the grapes from the storehouse. Then you need to build a market and plebs to work at the market. Then you need yet MORE plebs to bring wine from the wineyard. After all that, I've spent half my money, there are almost no more plebs and the whole operation took ten minutes. Ah well, my citizens should be happy to have wine and bread. So I checked on a house. They said "we are hungry we demand FOOD!" After an infinite of work, they STILL don't have food!!!!!!!!!!!! So, unless you're as rich as Bill Gates, don't waste your money on this pile of junk.