The villagers eat very little meat. Although most raise a few chickens, they do not eat their eggs. Instead, they hatch out as many chicks as possible and sell them to buy rice for the high water season. Rice is the only food that will store well in the heat and humidity. They generally eat one meal a day, occasionally two.
Hunger is a common problem.
No one eats three meals a day because there is not enough food. Occasionally the men hunt for wild boar and monkey. This will usually take them away from home for a week if they are lucky enough to find an animal. A gun is used to hunt large animals, though the people have few bullets. Smaller animals, like monkeys, are hunted with poison-tipped blow darts.