Another helpful post, Martha, thank you. We - my partner and I - eat pretty much third world. I was born and raised in Hawai'i, so Asian food - Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, etc., is my soul food, I was raised on white rice in school, five days a week from K -12th grade, that's how it was. And you're right, there so are many things you can do with rice or noodles and a little protein plus vegetables. I love to cook many different cuisines, and the peasant foods of Europe including Eastern Europe, also the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, India - all appeal to me. Most are not heavily meat-based, meat is an occasional treat, and so they are very healthful. We don't eat much meat any more anyway - prohibitively expensive where we live and we've gotten used to not eating huge slabs of it, using animal protein more as flavoring, and feeling better for it. I have many friends with chickens so really top quality eggs are plentiful. Someone said to me recently, "Well, if there's a food shortage, don't a lot of Americans need to lose weight anyway?" Well, there's a problem with that. Many people may fall prey to eating fast food, lots of empty carbs and low quality food. They may suffer from malnutrition and eat even more, in an attempt to nourish themselves. And a food crisis is no time to vastly reduce a healthy 2000 - 2500 caloric intake. We will all want to stay in good physical condition, as there may be some extra physical work for us to do, in order to get by. And a food shortage is emotionally stressful, as anyone on a strict diet will tell you. Preparing for all manner of potential hardship while trusting in God, helping others where we can, waiting for the times to get better, feeling daily gratitude while reminding ourselves that there have always been people who have been through so much worse - can we do better than that?