He received three unpalatable meals a day usually a sandwich of bread and cheese, or cold rice with canned vegetables, or soup.

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While potatoes are technically a vegetable, your body treats them more like rice or bread because of their high starch content.

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Encourage your daughter to eat starchy carbohydrates such as cereal, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta or beans at every meal and snack.

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She and her daughters now eat twice a day when others can spare food or money: tea, bread, rice, maybe some fish if they are lucky.

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