text: have you ever been really hungry and had no money to eat? have any of you been helplessly broke to the point of not having money to buy food? how was it?  what did you do to eat? in my younger days, my job paid very little. at times i had foodless days, considered paying the rent to be more important.  i feel very lucky that no serious harm came to me for this, and even luckier that i am no longer so poor.