her own hunger also reminds her that another thing ruth could be doing is just sitting at her kitchen table this very minute in front of a bowl of campbells chicken and rice soup and a half-eaten piece of cinnamon toast , having suddenly noticed that she was hungry herself and thinking shed better put something in her stomach at least before going over to pick up ruby , so she wont keel over while ruby reads the nutritional information on her 25th package of sliced lunch meat .