Meaning of the "hunt his/her own meat" idiom

Idiom is close... innuendo is more accurate

It would seem the reader is led to believe that "meat" refers to an object of sustenance rather than animal flesh as food. In this case the context suggests that the system being sustained is one of sexual reproduction rather than a full biological life cycle requiring food to eat.

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It is not really an idiom. It refers directly to the fact that she actually hunts her local wild game such as deer, turkey, rabbit etc. (Based on the play "How to Transcend a Happy Marriage")