Value menus still exist: https://www.eatthis.com/restaurant-chains-with-most-affordab...

But meat is more expensive than beans and rice.

The problem for me is that I can't eat a lot of rice due to digestive issues with it--it just backs me up like glue even when I drink tons of water. I don't think rice is a very good type of food, honestly. Beans are fine, good fiber and protein. Rice, nah.

Does this happen with Jasmine rice?

If no: check for MTHFR gene mutation.

American rice is often washed in folic acid - don’t ask me why - and that’s toxic to MTHFR mutated individuals.

The folic acid helps prevent certain complications early on in pregnancy.

As long as you, or your child, aren't one of the 60%+ of people who can't properly break it down.

In that case, all of the "enriched" bread, folic acid, certain forms of vitamin B, will be difficult to process (often causing problems).

https://www.mygenefood.com/blog/mthfr-and-folic-acid-build-u...

Folate, folinic acid: those are safe to take, and pass through, for the entire population.

If you’re going to go so far as downvote, at least acknowledge the fact that it’s a debated topic in the field, and that you disagree with the new findings because [].

You need to add salt and butter to rice when its cooking.

In the 90s I knew families who’d buy bags of McDonald’s $0.29 hamburgers (I think the special sale day was Wednesday) and live on that for the rest of the week.