Posted on 04/03/2018 5:06:12 PM PDT by bgill
Caleb Torres lost seven pounds his freshman year of college — and not because he didn’t like the food in the dining hall. A first-generation college student, barely covering tuition, Torres ran out of grocery money halfway through the year and began skipping meals as a result. He’d stretch a can of SpaghettiOs over an entire day. Or he’d scout George Washington University campus for events that promised free lunch or snacks. Torres told no one what he was going through, least of all his single mom. "She had enough things to worry about," he said... Now a senior and living off-campus, in a housing situation that supplies most of his meals,
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Well there’s Spam, eggs, sausage & Spam. That hasn’t got much Spam in it.”
Or add these brats to the Free Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner crowd.
So the little ingrate couldn’t even hack a salad bar?
Dorm food is 100x better than it once was. And on most campuses now you can go to whatever dining hall you want, have a variety of choices, rather than trek all the way back for the same blase food like we had to do.
I will have to say that a lot of people on this thread ate things which I honestly think I had rather go without than eat.
It actually is possible to eat palatable food for not much money. A lot of it includes rice or potatoes plus just a little meat for seasoning.
In the mid eighties you could rent a two bedroom apartment in Stillwater and cook your own food for two thirds the cost of a tiny shared dorm room on the Oklahoma State campus which would kick you out whenever there was a holiday.
Living on campus was for party people, as there was no silent place to study in the dorms.
There used to be a web site that rated colleges and universities by their dorm food. I remember VaTech was rated tops one year, which astounded me.
Work on campus these days: library 20 hours a week-$10.00 an hour. Dorm Resident Assistant (RA) at colleges free room and board. Work for the college food service-the list is endless.
I worked my way through college. I mostly chose food based on calories per penny, not based on what I liked eating. As needed, I ate:
- spaghetti with a can of condensed soup dumped on it (for dates, it was a can of generic spaghetti sauce),
- rice (even cheaper than spaghetti a few days a week if money was likely to get tight, but not a date meal) with soup,
- ramen noodles (often cheaper than rice, if money was likely to get very tight), often stirred in with discounted vegetables,
- one fried/boiled egg a day - a dozen eggs was a two-week investment,
- occasional milk/cheese/meat/whatever that had reached its expiration date and thus was very cheap,
- bread with lots of peanut butter,
- cafeteria food, where I worked some semesters for the food more than for the money, especially when my course load was too heavy for another job.
I was (1) thrifty, (2) responsible for myself, and (3) legal. I’d guess that the crying snowflakes in this study are at best one of the three.
A person could cook a box of spaghetti and add a can of cheap sauce and do MUCH better than Spaghettios.
I HATE whiners.
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Beans and rice are pretty cheap and would go a long way.
Spending their lunch money renting “Girls Gone Wild” videos, I bet.
To paraphrase Voltaire, “If crises did not exist, fakestream presstitutes would find it necessary to invent them.”
Now if you want truly haute cuisine, mix a cup of sour cream into your mac ‘n cheese and tuna.
I lived in apartments shared with five other students in three bedrooms. We most often pooled our dinner money and one person would cook a meal for six one night a week. One roommate, a Navajo Indian, made Navajo tacos every Thursday night with authentic frybread. We lived frugally, worked part-time as much as possible and through our summer breaks. Never had a spring break, made it through college in four years. Those hard times were just the incentive I needed to take advantage of my education and prepare for a decent career because I knew what was waiting if I failed.
Considering the high percentage of porkers in high school, who then drift into college, I am not surprised they are ‘hungry’.
Too bad. Change your eating habits. Instant oatmeal holds you for hours & costs about 10 Cents a packet.
Isn’t George Washington University the joint where atheist, racist bigots go to learn how to fight against “White Christian privilege”?
A pack of hot dogs and a dozen eggs ... food for a week
I spent my last year of undergrad living on gas station sandwiches and boxed macaroni and cheese paid for by my part-time programming job. College is supposed to be tough - motivates kids to go out and get a job instead of hanging around campus complaining all the time.
Heh, I forgot about Monty Python. :-)
Sadly, the college bubble has made things all but unaffordable for people like Mr. Torres. Perhaps he could take a sabbatical and go into one of the trades. People can make good money, even up to six figures there. He could provide for himself AND his single mom and have all the food he can eat.
These snowflake idiots are breaking my friggin heart.
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