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I went with the old-fashioned oatmeal.
It's healthier (?) than Wonder Bread.
Posted on 03/10/2023 5:14:24 AM PST by karpov
Food insecurity has been put forward as an obstacle for many students in higher education. During the pandemic, the federal government responded to this issue and other hunger-related problems with an emergency subsidy that broadened both the benefits and the eligibility pool of SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Having benefited college students and others for several years, the emergency fund expired after February of this year.
Interviewed by NPR, Brian Montes, a student at Portland State University, related how he had personally benefited from the enhanced SNAP funding. The subsidy, Montes assured listeners, had allowed him to be free from the anxiety of wondering where his next meal would come from. Yet exactly how dire are the needs of students like Montes? Do “many” American college students really feel “terrified” and “ashamed” due to food insecurity?
To answer this question, we look first to Utah. A recent report from a consortium of universities and nonprofits concluded that almost 40 percent of college students in the Beehive State are food insecure. Specifically, almost 18 percent report having “low” food security, while 21.1 percent report having “very low” food security.
Nationally, according to a report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE), 29 percent of community college students are food insecure.
Both the Utah and the CCCSE reports used questions from the USDA’s U.S. Household Food Security Module to measure food insecurity. According to the USDA’s definition, food insecurity is the “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, or [the] limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.” Insinuated by the two reports, then, is that a significant portion of Utahn and community college students (and, presumably, a similar fraction of their national four-year-college peers) are deprived of food
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There is always ramen noodles and beer.
So are we talking about a shortage of ramen noodles or beer...or both?
I was just gonna say “Less beer and pot equals more food?”.
You beat me to it.
Food stamps for collich kids.
Delivery pizza shortage.
Every college has a meal plan and for one price they can get three meals a day. Heck, a lot are paying 67 thousand a year to attend. What’s another 3 thousand for the meal plan? Most will never pay their loans anyway.
Yeah. When I was a young sailor, I encountered “food insecurity”, but it was because of voluntary choices I made as a young adult.
When I became a petty officer, I was given the option to have a mess hall card, entitling me to three square meals a day and mid-rations if I desired them.
Or, I could take money instead to buy my own food.
I chose the money.
More than once I ran out of money due to carelessness or bad choices in prioritization.
I remember going for two weeks with only powdered ice tea and Wonder Bread that I buttered with cheap tub margarine.
But those were my own choices.
These college students who are experiencing “food insecurity”...how many of them have cars? Nice new clothes? Top of the line smart phones with unlimited plans, smoke cigarettes or buy drugs and/or alcohol?
My sympathy level is low.
Exactly. See my post above. Same kind of situation.
But as a young sailor, I didn’t have Leftists trying to elicit sympathy for me to get more money into budgets to feed young sailors like me.
Wild idea....do what me and my friends did. Get a job at a restaurant that gives you one free meal a day. Nobody starved and somehow we got through the horrors of ‘food insecurity’.
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I went with the old-fashioned oatmeal.
It's healthier (?) than Wonder Bread.
LOL. Try getting a twenty year-old guy living in a Batchelor Enlisted Quarters to eat oatmeal over nearly anything!
I said I was pretty stupid with respect to money choices, not wise in the ways of diet!
Oddly, that graphic there is EXACTLY what I have each morning I am at work now...I keep it in my office, raisins, cinnamon, and Splenda...:)
I keep the empty containers full of unsalted, in the shell peanuts. In the morning, I come in, put on my lab coat, open the window, and put the oatmeal container in the window.
The Blue Jays, sometimes as many as 15-20 of them now, all fly over and sit in the trees near my window. When they see the oatmeal container, they know breakfast is coming for them, and they wait, their beady eyes looking at me expectantly, waiting for me to stack the peanuts on the window ledge, or throw them in turn out onto the ground one at a time.
That is how I know how many there are. They have a pecking order. Each peanut is grabbed by a bird. The next one in line gets the next one. THEY know who gets to go next. I just count the peanuts when I throw them.
I have gotten Titmouses and Chickadees to take them from my hand, but Blue Jays never will...:)
But they know when they see the red cylinder with the Quaker Oats Man on it, that it is time for them to belly up to the bar!
“Food insecurity” is one of those compound nouns that was created specifically to promote a leftist political view and agenda (along with “social justice,” “reproductive rights,” “gender fluidity,” “weapons of mass destruction,” “assault weapon,” “renewable energy,” yadda, yadda, yadda).
Engaging with the Lib-Tards when they’ve already groomed the verbal battlefield is a Fool’s Errand because you can’t win the encounter, even if you’ve won the argument, because the “ground rules” they’ve set make facts meaningless.
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