Posted on 05/04/2019 3:22:06 PM PDT by dynachrome
In the coming weeks, thousands of college students will walk across a stage and proudly accept their diplomas. Many of them will be hungry.
A senior at Lehman College in the Bronx dreams of starting her day with breakfast. An undergraduate at New York University said he has been so delirious from hunger, he’s caught himself walking down the street not realizing where he’s going. A health sciences student at Stony Brook University on Long Island describes “poverty naps,” where she decides to go to sleep rather than deal with her hunger pangs.
These are all examples of food insecurity, the state of having limited or uncertain access to food. Stories about college hunger have been largely anecdotal, cemented by ramen and macaroni and cheese jokes. But recent data indicate the problem is more serious and widespread, affecting almost half of the student population at community and public colleges.
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I had no trouble eating in college. I worked. When I got hungry, I worked more. If I didn’t have time to work more, I bought less expensive food - and no new clothes for two years (until I needed them for a job, and those I bought at the Salvation Army).
That is precisely what this is about. Since when don’t colleges have dining halls?
I’ll bet these spoiled brats have plenty of money for beer and pot. And since when won’t their mothers feed them? Don’t they have homes they came from?
Yeah. Cans of chunklight tuna for a few bucks, noodles, Campbells soup. Twenty bucks for one person. You won’t stave. It’s not a T Bone but you sure ain’t going to starve!
Follow a few of these “poor” students around and you will probably find out why they have food insecurities.
What crap.
“Ramen noodles are still made.”
Yuppers.
Cut coupons, cook and freeze leftovers. Not rocket science.
Learning to cook from scratch doesn’t hurt either.
There are so many youtube videos made about dirt cheap yet gourmet food prep.
If you know how to cook you can eat off a rotisserie chicken for a week. Dinner with rice or a baked potato and veggie, sammiches, soup, doctored up ramen-so many possibilities.
Many resources out there for frugal cooking.
Good, nutritious eating doesn’t have to be expensive.
Should be: Dinner or Spring Vacation in the islands?
Have you seen the price of Spam lately?
Have you seen the size of college students these days?
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Great idea! Free food for all stupidents.
Bread at the day old store...fruits and veggies at the farmers market..
A hot plate...toaster oven... And a frigerator...crackers...pb....jam...honey...rice...beans...eggs...oil...margarine...noodles...potatoes...tuna...cheapest cut of meat...learn how to cut up a chicken....DONE...what a bunch of sniveling helpless dufii.
. I met a 4th year pharmacy student...who couldn’t give a simple description of a biological cell...sad..complete dummy.
Food banks everywhere.
I ate popcorn during college which is cheap. Was really skinny. loved being skinny.
They should get used to it. Most of the social studies degrees in feminist poetry or black studies or whatever seems cool and avant garde today isn’t going to give them the qualities an employer is looking for.
They could get free meals and a paycheck with McDonalds however.
One summer I had to commute to a different campus to complete an extended course in short order. I couldn’t work as many hours. My food budget was $12 a week after the other expenses. Lots of Ramen. Lost 25 lbs that summer. First and last time I heard people call me skinny...
If there were journalists they would ask:
1) Did you go on a fall or spring break vacation and if so how did you finance it?
2) Have you consumed an alcoholic beverage, smoked pot, or taken cocaine in the last 60 days? If so how did you pay for it?
3) Do you own a smartphone and/or personal computer? How old is it? How did you pay for it?
4) During the summer months and spring/fall breaks did you work for pay? If not, why?
5) Are you working for pay 10 hours per week while in school? If not, why?
6) Have you considered applying for a ROTC scholarship? Have you considered leaving school to join the armed forces for a period of time so you could save enough money to go back to school?
7) Have you considered simply taking a year off to work and save money so you can afford to eat while in school?
A fried baloney sandwich is awesome! It has to be garlic baloney though and that can sometimes be hard to find.
Not on any of the campuses I’ve visited...
...in fact, there seems to be an excess of food — and large appetites.
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