 It doesn't mean that you are starving. This isn't Africa. We're not a third world country. This means that you just don't have enough to get through the week and you're not thriving because your belly isn't full and your kids' bellies aren't full. We had a single mom tell us recently that she ate pie crust. She's pregnant. She ate pie crust for three days because she had to feed the rest of the food to her family.