I hear that small fiddle....
Beans & rice are very nutritious and low cal to boot. Funny the poor can always afford soda & cigs.
I agree, a very rib sticking meal, low cost and low cal.
I can eat plain beans and I will have an "odor aura" from foul flatulance for two days. If I eat some rice, particularly brown rice, with my beans, I could comfortably sit in church and not break a sweat. Nothing will instill fear in a man sitting on a wooden pew like a stomach full of gas bubbles...