Posted on 12/07/2016 12:19:24 PM PST by C19fan
Montclair State University's food pantry is tucked away down a maze of hallways in the student center. Like the hunger problem on campus itself, the pantry is not quite out in the open. It opened on the New Jersey college's campus in April, after administrators started hearing from students who said they were hungry and didn't have enough money for food. They surveyed students, finding that more than half said they or someone they know experiences "food insecurity" -- the lack of access to affordable, nutritious food. On one Thursday in December, 33 students visited the food pantry, taking what they need to help make ends meet. They left with bread, cereal, milk, spaghetti, canned vegetables, as well as personal items like shampoo and soap.
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“In my day food was day old bread from the A& P with some cheese”
Mine was Kraft (or better, store brand) Mac n’ Cheese....bought cases of the stuff at the first of the year.
Got pretty creative with the stuff.
And never went hungry.
Salvage grocery stores and dented can stores. Stop drinking Starbucks and start buying store brands and off brands of food.
Get back to work! EBT clients need you! :)
Bet on it! And CNN still has no clue they are a punchline!
Fried baloney comes to mind. My roommate’s father was a large animal vet and so we got pounds of frozen lamb burger. And not much if any beer.
I lived at home with my parents when I went to university. What % of people going to college/university don’t have one within commuting distance of their home? Living in residences/dorms/off-campus housing when you can’t even afford the tuition yourself, or have to borrow a bunch of money for it, seems like a luxury. Unless you get accepted to an ivy league school, or are going somewhere like MIT for engineering, it makes little difference where you get your undergrad degree, anyway.
Later, when I finished school, hadn’t yet started making good money (unemployed for a while), but living on my own, I learned how to stretch my food budge. A pound of regular ground beef, a big box of pasta, and a big can of sauce will make several meals.
Hunger’s a great motivator.
What a crock this all is.
I paid my own college, food, insurance, gas, car, and repairs working graveyard.
There is no starvation for those going to school unless it is a choice to not work.
Maybe a small acception for those studying to be doctors, the rest are just lazy or entitlement minded.
back in the stone age, when I went to college, tuition plus room and board, including 3 meals a day every day Mon-Fri and 2 meals on Saturday and Sunday was $2000 for academic year.
The food was great and was cooked in a kitchen by University employees and not farmed out to a corporation.
You could eat all you wanted at each meal.
We had absolutely no excuse to go hungry.
Today they have fast food right on the campus and starbucks and etc etc. But tuition is through the roof.
While the universities have BILLIONS in endowments they won’t touch.
This is what a fake life is like, living on borrowed money. I think living on the nutritious edge is a rite of passage in the college years. It’s not like these multi-cultural flakes are making sacrifices like serving in the armed forces. Eff em, they’ll be fine.
I wonder how many have cell phones, TV’s, video games, their own vehicles, and designer clothes just to start......
“Two pastrami....”
My DIL gave my granddaughter a cookbook when she went to college, “101 Ways to cook Ramen”.
Yeah, when I was in school, if we had “food insecurity”, it was usually because we chose voluntarily to spend the money we had allotted for food on beer or pot or cigarettes. Sure, we were hungry sometimes and ate ramen for 3 meals a day, but at least we didn’t whine about it like these pussies.
My Weekly grocery trip during the college years (and several after!) was a loaf of the cheapest bread, a Lb. of butter, several cans of Dark Red Kidney beans, and a jar of Peanut Butter.
I had better things to spend my spare cash on in those days than food, like booze and women. Priorities, doncha know.
I like that idea!
I think of my college years as part of the learning experience of becoming a “real” adult-eating stuff from the $1 menu at Griff’s burger barn or hamburger helper when I could afford ground beef, living off-campus in a bare-bones apartment small as a closet, etc-I also learned quickly to get a job as a cocktail waitress at a supper club-the owner let waitstaff have a meal of less expensive menu items free-and the tips were great, too...
The snowflakes aren’t going to figure any of that out like we did as long as they have their every need met...
There’s also an STD problem on America’s college campuses.
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