During the last American food-and-gas-price crisis, in the 1970s, one of my colleagues on the Berkeley student newspaper told me that he and his semi-communal housemates had taken a vote. They'd calculated they could afford meat or coffee. They chose coffee.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/doomsday-upon-us-again
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/asian-age-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-prices
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-supply
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/starvation
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-stress