Yes, the definition of “not enough to eat” is stretched to “occasionally hungry”.
I had an experience much like yours between Sophmore and Junior years. I was not as ambitious to get through school. It took me four years.
Congrats on getting through in three.
I got hungry, but I was too proud to ask family for extra money.
Good character building experience.
When I became an E4 in the Navy, one of the first things I did was ditch my mess hall pass and take money instead to buy my own food.
I had to learn. I went weeks at a time eating Wonder bread with margarine from a tub, and drinking Lipton powdered iced tea.
LOL, I didn’t complain. It was my responsibility and choice.
My husband got through school in the UK by eating dog food quality ground beef.
He lived.
“Good character building experience.”
I knew a man who survived as a POW in Viet Nam on pumpkins, pig fat and fish heads.