1.  Rice formed the staple food of the common people.

2.  The staple food of mankind in the Middle Ages was bread, and his staple drink ale or water.

3.  Staple food crops are maize, sorghum and wheat.

4.  Retail prices of staple foods and consumer goods remained unchanged.

5.  Rice -- the staple food for more than two billion people -- is a monocotyledon, one of the hardest types of plant to manipulate genetically.

6.  A grandmotherly old woman near our camp was making tsampa, the staple food of Tibetan peoples.

7.  After the first killings, in the village of Likoshane, families all over Kosovo rushed to buy up staple foods, detergents, medical supplies and fuel.

8.  It is a particular problem in cultures where rice is a staple food, as milled rice contains none of the vitamin.