Pennsylvania prisons to stop using food loaf as punishment

Associated Press ^ | Nov 25, 2016 2:38 PM EST

[Olog-hai]

Pennsylvania state inmates are no longer being punished with the baked brown slabs known as food loaves.

The loaf was a combination of beans, rice, raw potatoes, carrots, cabbage and oatmeal.

The Department of Corrections has stopped giving the food loaves to inmates in restricted housing who misbehave with their food. …

[proud American in Canada]

LOL!

[jiggyboy]

This is Pennsylvania’s official recipe for Food Loaf, aka Nutraloaf. Inmates typically eat 4oz. slivers with their hands, utensils are not provided and might eat nothing but this for as long as one week. While Pennsylvania’s recipe is clearly intended to be as bland as possible, some states, prepare recipes with garlic powder or other intentionally off-putting flavors.

Recipe courtesy of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections:

Recipe makes 21 servings.

10 ½ cups reduced fat milk, 2%
26 ¼ cups white rice, cooked
5 ¼ cups potatoes, grated raw, flesh and skin
5 ¼ carrots, grated
5 ¼ cabbage, shredded
15 ¾ cups oatmeal, dry
15 ¾ cups garbanzo beans, with liquid, mashed
1 ½ cups margarine

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine all ingredients thoroughly in mixing bowl. Place paper liners in loaf pans, scale 29-30 oz. of batter into lined loaf pan. Bake for one hour and 15 minutes. Place on wire rack and cool thoroughly.

http://www.ladybud.com/2013/06/14/the-politics-of-nutraloaf-what-its-like-to-eat-in-prison/

[proud American in Canada]

My husband lost a ton of weight after his heart attack and double bypass surgery in August 2015.

I think we have had red meat exactly once since over a year ago.

There’s nothing like a brush with death to get you on the right path regarding your diet.

[proud American in Canada]

I am going to print this out. Thanks!

We have a vegetarian night every week since the above-mentioned heart attack (my husband). This might be very good!

Julie

[Vigilanteman]

Mix the ingredients with oatmeal in water or milk to hold it all together. It doesn’t sound so bad. The Japanese essentially follow this recipe substituting buckwheat flour for the oatmeal and top it with bulldog sauce (similar to Worcestershire sauce) and call it okonomiyaki.

[faithhopecharity]

thanks!
it sounds more balanced nutrionally ...and more tasty...than the only thing I’ve ever found that can let me lose any weight (raw tofu)

ha!
i might try it...might even toss in a little tofu for good effect and added protein value, eh? it really doesn’t sound too terrible, and as you indicate maybe might even taste pretty good with a little something on it?

yum yum yum!

thanks!

[SandRat]

Just put them on Bresd and Water.

[jiggyboy]

I see now that some of the measurements are a little iffy. Are the cabbage and carrots also measured in cups? Maybe try half the recipe first — you don’t want people to be saying, “they made it better in prison”. :-)

[SpaceBar]

If you want to be heart-smart, you might want to substitute a higher quality oil like olive for the prison-grade hydrolized palm oil (margarine).

[faithhopecharity]

it sure looks better, and maybe better tasting, than the last $15 burrito lunch I bought in a restaurant (they left out the guacamole and sour creme, so it was way too dry and blah tasting, ha!)

I can understand why prisoners would desire more variety and more ‘recognizably food’ food. but anyway this food loaf thing does not sound super=bad, really

will try to cook some of it up when can figure out smaller quantities

[Emergencyawesome]

It never took the convicts too long to get their minds right after getting the loaf, very effective

[proud American in Canada]

“If you want to be heart-smart, you might want to substitute a higher quality oil like olive for the prison-grade hydrolized palm oil (margarine).”

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Yes, I was just taking another look at the ingredients. I would put brown rice instead of the white, as well.

Plus I need to cut down the portions. We don’t need 21 servings here. LOL! :)

Thanks, FRiend!

Julie

[proud American in Canada]

“I see now that some of the measurements are a little iffy. Are the cabbage and carrots also measured in cups? Maybe try half the recipe first — you don’t want people to be saying, “they made it better in prison”. :-)”

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Yeah, I was just noticing that. :)

Me to Hubby: “We need fifteen cups of oatmeal. Can we make a Costco run?” LOL!

[raccoonradio]

1988 on his album Broadway the Hard Way,Frank Zappa spoke on confinement loaf made with beans.used to mellow out problem inmates

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lOFyb9lJzNg

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Sounds like Lunch Lady Moochells fare.

[Ellendra]

Cooked right, with an egg to bind it together, that could be a replacement for food stamps.

[Rebelbase]

The new McGyver remake blows but there was one hilarious bit where he gets himself in prison to break another guy out.

He takes the meal loaf and soaks it in the toilet to dissolve the salt. then takes a guard’s radio battery and rigs a hydrolysis system to liberate the hydrogen from the salt water filling the room with the gas and while hidden under a mattress ignites it and blows the door off the hinge.

As I said, it blows.

[Oatka]

Replace it with Soylent Green.

[loungitude]

26 ¼ cups white rice, cooked

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It seems someone rounded off. The recipe that I use says 26.250012 cups of rice.

[tuffydoodle]

That was freaking funny.