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[ichabod801]

This is incorrect:

if userin == 'i' or 'I':
    food_items(items)

It will always evaluate to True. To do this correctly you can do:

if userin == 'i' or userin == 'I':

or:

if userin in ('i', 'I'):

Using the lower method is better when dealing with case insensitive searches. It is best to use lower once:

userin = input('blah blah blah').lower()
if userin == 'i':
    ...