Food Insecurity?
Not if you have at least a dollar in change!
Posted on 08/07/2017 12:50:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A new Urban Institute study on food insecurity aims to measure just how many college students go hungry.
And while the figures released by the Urban Institute may be alarming, critics say they are too low, especially when it comes to hunger on campuses throughout California.
Right now, the process of applying for and receiving food can be confusing, students say, and many who got free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch as K-12 students suddenly find themselves struggling to navigate the system in college.
In the last couple of years, the state has made it easier for students to apply for food stamps and for colleges to identify which students might need help, and there is some movement to do the same at the national level. Esteban, the Berkeley student, was able to enroll in CalFresh, the state’s food assistance program, and says he can focus on school now that he no longer worries about where he’s going to find his next meal.
The state recently allocated several million dollars each for the UC, CSU and community college systems to build up their response to the problem of hunger on campus and reach out to students.
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Hangry??
Is that a new word?
Hangry??
Is that a new word?
Oh man! We gotta hang out.
I just read a few articles on Americans not knowing how to cook. Really, something close to 50% CAN’T cook. Most Americans these days do fine with a microwave and a coffee maker. No need for a full blown kitchen.
So...college students starving? Going hungry?
No, I don’t believe that hogwash! More like students not having basic life skills, getting a part-time job, working, and having the basic drive to survive college. College really is so much more than just getting a degree.
Hangry people are not nice people.
I lived in a cheap, ratty efficiency apt in a complex near campus that rented to students-the Japanese American girl next door-also a student-introduced me to ramen-you could only get it at the oriental market near the AFB back then-so most of the time I scraped my change together for a pound of ground beef and a box of hamburger helper-one pot, add water-done.
If my guy was coming over after his shift ended at midnight, I’d sometimes splurge on a frozen pizza-a real treat-and do that for him-he’d bring the beer, of course. My guy now is that same guy again-after years, marriages, etc-and he still considers those pizza and beer nights in that apt some of the best we ever had-even remembers the risqué blacklight poster I had stapled to the ceiling above the bed. I don’t see how college kids today will remember these days fondly if everything is handed to them so pizza and beer with their guy or girl isn’t a feast-they are in for a very hard fight to survive as adults when the gravy train stops...
What the???? LOL LOL LOL!
Eggs are really cheap right now, too. Five lbs. of rice goes along way. My brother used to wash dishes in a Chinese restaurant for all the leftover fried rice he could carry home.
When government takes over for parents, this is what you get: people who don’t know how to go to a grocery store, buy a food product, prepare it, and eat it.
When I went to school, in the 70's, I had $1 a day in my pocket.
Lunch was 50 cents, but a pack of cigarettes was 60 Cents & they lasted longer.
That left me 40 cents, which went to 6 mugs of Bud for 30 cents and a 10 cent tip for the pretty bartender.
Hey, it worked for me, LMAO!
Eggs are currently $0.75/dozen at Walmart.
25 lbs flour under $10 at BJs. Ditto rice.
Mixed veggies $1/lb if you look.
Discounted meats, close to expiration (but still good!), are prevalent first thing in the morning; under $1/lb exists.
Throw in some flavor packets liberated from fast-food sources.
Eat ‘til you’re stuffed, with good nutrition, for far less than “cheap” fast food.
When I was in grad school around 1988, the local Wendy’s had an, all you can eat, salad bar for only a dollar. They had all kinds of stuff you could put on it including several types of meat bits.
One could literally stuff yourself for only a dollar. I noticed they dropped that after a few years. Too many hungry college students I guess.
Rice was a favorite meal stretcher for me when I could get it-like everything else, it ended up in the hamburger helper. Except for the First Mate $1 fish, I really wasn’t into fast food even then. We didn’t have3 access to it on the ranch, so I didn’t have a taste for it-and cooking your own stuff was cheaper.
When I went home to the ranch for a weekend or a holiday, my mom would always give me a dozen fresh eggs, whatever fresh veggies the garden offered up and home-grown chicken-to take back with me-sometimes even a couple packages of venison in hunting season.
The only thing that didn’t get added to stretch the hamburger helper was the eggs-one time a friend and I bought some packaged egg foo yung mix at the oriental market, mixed it up and cooked it as per the directions-it was the most awful crap we’d ever tasted. We both offered the stuff to our respective guys that night, but neither of them would eat more than a mouthful-we gave the leftovers to a guy on the 3d floor who would eat anything that was free...
I always get the discount meats.
The beer that was usually cheap here back then was Lone Star-brewed in SA-I never liked it.
My mom used to work part time for the ‘history and arts’ association when we were in high school and college. She would put leftovers together and call them
‘yakidak.’ Always pretty tasty.
I read of a prominent chef talk about his lean days in college. He took a course in Chinese cooking and was amazed at how long one lonesome pork chop lasted. I think of him when at a Chinese buffet - LOTS of veggies with thin strips of beef, pork or chicken. Always left the place feeling stuffed.
I worked with a guy who owned a gold mine in southern Arizona. He said one day a beat up sedan drove up - the guy said he was a “damn good welder”, was living in his car, and needed a job. The owner let him stay in the tool shed. A few hours later the guy asked for a couple of bucks in advance for food. He took off “shopping”. He came back with a few cans of Alpo and some Kraft instant Mac ‘n Cheese, saying the combo made a great casserole. He offered some to the boss, who declined.
Cradle to grave. No need to ever feed yourself in California. Mommy’s waiting at the table with the taxpayer spoon to play “Here comes the choo-choo. Open wide ...”
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