my parents couldn’t afford anything that didn’t violate my diet and I ended up starving for long periods. They were pretty strictly meat and potatoes,

You need never starve as long as you have potatoes!

There is ordinary food, and then there is the potato: the superfood. It grows at the altitude of Mont Blanc, or at sea level. It survives in the arid lands, it flourishes in the glacial north, it runs wild in the rainforest. Each tuber contains all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, calories and cellulose necessary for life: a healthy adult could survive indefinitely, though perhaps unenthusiastically, on potatoes alone.

So hungry.