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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Yours: “What I found was getting a job that pays money helps a lot when buying food.”
Mine: Yes, very true indeed. However, have you considered that we now live in the post-capitalist (yuck, oppressive, exploitive, EuroCentric meanies!) Amerika? Meaning, kids who get even part-time campus jobs are supporting The Man and his rip-off-the-masses SYSTEM. Can’t do that!!!!!!!!!!!
Better to starve if necessary than to learn how to do any productive, useful work (and never miss the opportunity to bitch about it, of course). Remember, too, that Work is a four-letter word! (and Just about the ONLY four-letter word the kids don’t enjoy.. ha!)
I lived on Burrito Brothers when I was in Gainesville.
Yep peanut butter and jelly...or bologna or salami or tuna or sardines or whatever. For dessert peanut butter and jelly and honey or peanut butter and a chocolate chip cookie.
And free or as low as $5/mo birth control pills, free condoms and free tampons in the “mens” restrooms.
LOL. If I were in Florida, I might have fished my meals.
Peanut butter and saltines was my regular diet in college for the third week of every month until I received my $50/month ROTC check- then it was cheap beer and sandwiches until week three when the crackers and peanut butter budget kicked back in.
Diversity!
A pound of pintos, pack of flour torillas, 1/2 lb cheese and a bottle of hot sauce made enough burritos for and entire week’s lunches.
it’s called budgeting, living within your means, not getting delivery or take out all the time our being wasteful with leftovers, etc.
Pete’s Pride pork fritters. 98 cents for a box of five. A box of Chef Boy R Dee spaghetti was good for two meals. I lived on that while in college/law school. And a six pack of Buckhorn beer was $1.59. I could scrounge that on what I found in the sofa cushions and out in the car.
So kids are hungry. So was I. Big deal. Builds character
I lived on popcorn and Dr Pepper
This country has why used to be a historical impossibility - fat poor!. We have rich who put themselves into states of malnutrition to look good and poor who suffer from diseases of obesity.
Yeah, but now you're dead. ;)
About 10-15 years ago, there was a sort of ongoing thread on one of the sites I used to visit with suggestions on how to feed a family of 4 on $20 for 5 days. Super simple. Not rocket science.
You did that too !
I liked* several teaspoons of peanut butter dipped in a jar of salsa .. got yer protein and vegies and didn't last long enough to need refrigerated.
Aaaahhh, the good ol' days, when ignorance made poverty tolerable !
*still do, actually .. think i'll get some now ;-)
many college kids pile it up and take it to laundry places that wash and fold it for them. it’s crazy the wastefulness of some of them. just too lazy to structure their time properly to learn to do simple things that would allow them to live within their means.
College kids now get EBT. It is such BS. These kids still find the money for pot, beer and any other college delight. BTW, many colleges have meal plans and all week access to food.
Priorities people.
1) Give loans to students that have no business being in college. Then when they can't pay back loans, because they flunked out or got a useless major, make college free.
2) Give loans to people who have no business buying a home. Then when they foreclose wipe the foreclosure off their credit rating in record time so they can go into debt once again.
3) Let illegals get drivers licenses so they can drive dangerous unregistered cars around without insurance. Then treat them for free in the ER when they wreck.
4) Pay women who have no business having kids to have more kids. Then pay for those kids' schooling and eventual time in prison.
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