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Meals

Interview with Tim, Bob, Peter, Iris, Pat, Elsie, Kathleen, George and Amber

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Tim: Since I was only there over night, I only got the one meal. A baloney and cheese sandwich. And I think some apple juice.
Bob: 3
Peter: we got three meals a day.
Iris: Three meals are offered daily
Pat: 3 meals per day which was not enough for me
Elsie: Three hideous meals per day.
Kathleen: breakfast at 7am. lunch at 10:30-11 and dinner 4pm
George: We got three, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Amber: YOU RECIEVED 3 MEALS A DAY

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Tim: Bland but nutritious. I would feed it to my dog, but I'm sure that it will keep you alive.
Bob: I would be ashamed to feed it to starving people in a third world country.
Peter: i would rate the food as ok. some food was good, and some werent. like we would sometimes get bread with some other stuff everyday with milk. there was also times where there wasnt enought food. like just little food that wouldnt get you full. like i said some meals were good, and some werent.
Iris: Breakfast was okay they switched it up daily.lunch was the worst part of it all by far same nasty ass sandwich with warm milk everyday always the same thing which wad disappointing every day. Dinner wad the best part everyday there seemed to be more effort but id still be hungry at night.
Pat: I would rate the food very poor, there is a 2 week rotation and every 2 weeks the menu is repeated. I found that I couldn't even eat half of the food because of how bad it tasted. If I didn't have money on my books to buy commissary I don't know what I would have done.
Elsie: As you can imagine, it was repetitive. Breakfast was hard to kill because it was eggs generally but nothing whatsoever was salted or seasoned and although we could buy seasoning on commissary, we weren't permitted to bring it to the chow hall. They removed salad from our menu and there went what little "fiber" or "fresh green" we had. Everything seemed pressed together.
Kathleen: the food was food. not food i;d chose to eat. but contained basic food groups. breakfast and dinner were almost concidered decent depending on standards but for lunch it was always the same. and sandwich. with soup and milk and cookies. i'd be happy to never have another sandwich ever again. soup was sometime ok tho
George: The food was horrible, it was very bland and tasteless. Almost everything tasted the same and it was not very good, nothing stood out as tasting any better than the last meal, We ate mostly sandwiches, they were no good I was lucky enough to have loving family that sent me gift baskets through the commissary containing food that had a little bit of taste to it.
Amber: THE BREAKFAST CONSISTED OF PANCAKES OR WAFFLES EVERY DAY SOMETIMES YOU WOULD GET MYSTERY MEAT WITH IT. FOR LUNCH YOU WOULD GET A SANDWICH AND SOUP. MOST OF THE TIME THE SANDWICH MEAT HAD A GREEN TINT TO IT. THE SOUP WAS USUALLY MADE FROM THE LEFTOVER FOOD WE HAD THE WEEK BEFORE. THE MEAT WAS BATTERED THE VEGETABLES TOO HARD

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Tim: Since I only had the one, I can say that it definitely wasn't my favorite, but it wasn't horrible either. It would keep me healthy and alive.
Bob: Actually I did aquire a taste for the spaghetti dinner and also for the burrito or taco dinner. they taste like overcooked spaghettios, microwave 7-11 burritos and jack in the box 99 cent tacos respectively.
Peter: ya i usually liked dinner meals which were ok. but the breakfast and lunch werent. i got tired fo the milk everday.
Iris: It was all starchy foods that get you fat notmy kinda if diet but it was tolerable to say the least.
Pat: They served fish every Friday and I thought it was awful. I was there for Christmas and they served us Ice cream which was really cool.
Elsie: The hard boiled egg was the most desirable for me because I could be fairly certain that it was not touched or modified but then again without salt/pepper it was bland.
Kathleen: breakfast was a favorite. i enjoyed the french toast and i like fish friday. least favorite was hard boiled eggs and sandwiches
George: There were no favorites, everything was pretty bad but the thing I hated most was the soup it tasted like plain hot water.
Amber: SOS (SHIT ON A SHINGLE)WAS A FAVORITE OF MINE FOR BREAKFAST. I DIDNT CARE FOR THE BATTERED FISH OR THE BEAN SALAD

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Tim: None.
Bob: Not unless you ordered from commissary that week. Everyweek you are given a scantron sheet with toiletries, snacks, food items and knick knacks (cards,letters,stamps,pencils,crayons) that you can order from if you have money on your books. This process is called commissary
Peter: no there were no other snacks outside the meals. they probably had a commissary, but i didnt know about it. it was probably expensive. im just not sure how that worked. i think there were snacks before.
Iris: Yes commissary is offered if you have money on your books but it can get pretty expensive to order stuff after a while. Other than that if you don't have money then all you got is the meals offered.
Pat: there were no snacks offered outside of meals. Commissary was good, not very healthy at all but it was a nice break from what they serve. It was pretty expensive but it was very worth spending the money
Elsie: If you were diabetic or pregnant, you were offered snacks. Commissary was primarily sugar or wheat. Nothing healthy was available. In that last year or so they granted inmates the ability to get these packages sent in which again were sugar or wheat or a very crude stationary or hygiene package with inferior and expensive off brand products. They cost was very high and there was a handling fee of nearly $5.00. But, I must say that the employees did a great job of getting those packages delivered in a timely manner AND the jails starting having commissary come twice a week which blew my mind because it indicated that they too, were interested in profiting. The only time that anything in the jail operated sensibly and with fiscal policy in mind.
Kathleen: there was a lot of different types of commissary available. also people could order packs online containing different foods not offered with our commissary slips for people who could afford it most spend 20-50dollars a week. some people would skip a majority of the meals and rely on commissary as their main source of nutrition
George: My family purchased gift baskets through the commissary and everything was over $20, there was also a very pricy processing fee to do anything on the website. They bought me a mexican gift pack that had some stuff to make tacos and had some hot sauce in it.
Amber: YOU WERE ALLOWED TO BUY ITEMS FROM COMMISSARY ON A WEEKLY BASIS. YOU WOULD BE GIVEN AN ORDER LIST AND FORM THE NIGHT BEFORE COMMISSARY WAS TO ARRIVE. YOU COULD BUY SNACKS AND HYGIENE PRODUCTS. I FELT THAT IT WAS REASONABLY PRICED

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