“He’d stretch a can of SpaghettiOs over an entire day.”
In college, I’d resort to dried beans, day-old bread, expired food sales, anything to make ends meet. And they did. I just had to be very very careful with what little that I had.
We couldn't have a hot plate and microwaves and mini fridges were unheard of. We were allowed a popcorn popper so I brought an ancient one that had coils in the bottom to warm up those Spaghettios and later on I found 25 cent boxes of mac and cheese. Guessing Ramen hadn't been invented then. Sometimes we'd throw a party and put foil on irons to heat wieners for dry hot dogs.
A year or two after graduation, I bought a microwave!
Aw, snowflakes have to get day old bagels. Silly things, wait until they get out into the real world. We live not just in "food insecurity" aka a budget but live in a food desert so we have to drive into town to the one and only grocery store to purchase many day old bread at full price. Oh, noes! Our grocery's bread is shipped in frozen.
students who don’t have their parents’ full financial support can find themselves facing difficult choices
Here's a radical idea - get a J-O-B!
On the up side, they aren't gaining the Freshman 15 lbs.
We’re you my roomate at Florida?