Killing people with spells, eating barely edible food, and justifying it?

The corn did not parch well, and was barely edible.

When they did, the food was a loaf of sour, barely edible bread.

In others, the food is meager and barely edible.

The end product of all this labor was black and stiff and looked barely edible.

Spices had been added to make it barely edible.

The men never had enough to eat, and what they did have was barely edible.

She peeled off brown leaves until she reached the barely edible core.

"The heat was unbearable, the food barely edible, and the water was bad or in short supply".

It was gristled, tough, and seemed barely edible to him.