The only thing I ever used barley for was Beef Barley soup.
Corn meal makes great corn bread but you can only so much you can use it for, unless you lived like Little House on the Prairie, where they lived on it.
Most of the world lives on what we would call a very restricted diet.
We are spoiled with the variety we have available to us.
I like being spoiled. I plan to remain spoiled, even if Hillary takes power and things go very badly for America.