Southern soul food is rural poverty food, which is to say it features staples like corn meal, flour, rice and beans, cheap cuts of meat, and basic garden type vegetables. Also it uses animal fats like lard and butter. It’s actually very healthy if you tone down the carbs (biscuits, cornbread) and play up the meats and veggies.
LOL! Sounds exactly like my diet except for the wheat flour, which I cannot eat, and cornmeal, which I avoid due to GM factors.
Now, if only I can convince my nephew to stop eating fried mozzarella cheese and hot dogs!