A variant of the he quoted prayer was known in our family as the “Scotch Grace” and we sang it often, as a pre-meal blessing:

“Some have meat, and cannot eat,
And some have none that want it,
But we have meat, and we can eat,
And so the lord we thank it.”

Oh, and a budget of $35 dollars for one meal? Obviously, New York is on another planet. On my own planet, $35 is about half my grocery bill feeding two people for two weeks. And once upon a time, when I was really on a strict budged (junior NCO living in family housing with an enormous weekly bill for child care) I spent $25 on the 1st and 15th of every month for groceries. Yes, I made a lot of stuff from scratch. And no way was anything like lamb and chevre in my budget at the time.