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Meals

Interview with Mary, D Bo, Joel and Trevor

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Mary: we got 3 meals and occasionally a snack cart would come around and we could purchase some stuff on there if we had the money in our accounts to do so.
D Bo: if you count all the meals together to make up the right amount of servings, once a day. They dont give you the correct amount of portions and when you tell them its not they dont do anything about it and deny it.
Joel: # meals. Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Trevor: we had three per day

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Mary: on a scale from 1 to 10 i would rate it as a 4. it was nothing good, but it was doable. it was enough to get us through and have us survive.
D Bo: They food on a 1-10 scale would be -5 negative 5
Joel: On a scale of 1-10. I'd have to rate the food a 3. And they may be pushing it. The food is bland for the most part. Plus, they do not even give you any salt, pepper nor any other seasoning for that matter. They make fast food tastes like gourmet.
Trevor: horrible, barely edible, pasty stuff they called bread, nothing fresh, nothing hardly ever green. I really don't think it was 2000 calories per day. I never saw fruit in the place. I think they must have a very low food budget because I wouldn't sere my dog some of that stuff

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Mary: i would say all the meals were my least favorite. i didn't care for a single one of their meals and would have rathered eaten bread for the entire time I was in there.
D Bo: the best meal they have is the Cheese burger meal.
Joel: My favorite was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. That and baked chicken we had every Sunday. Least favorite was that oatmeal
Trevor: No, they were all equally atrocious. the only thing I liked was the milk in the mornings because they couldn't mess that up

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Mary: Whatever you could get off the snack cart that came around if you had the money in your account to buy them.
D Bo: The commissary was so expensive there isnt anything you can do or say abou that. They are definitely taking advantage of people when it comes to the prices of stuff on commissary. For a oddle and noodles soup that would cost you .17 in the grocery store they charge you .82 For a bag of chips that would cost you .50 they charge you .97 and so on. Everything is smaller then what you get at the store and you pay double the price for it. They make millions of dollars profit on commissary.
Joel: Yes, but only if you had money in your account. The commissary consisted solely of junk food. Chips, candy bars, candy, noodles. And it is very expensive. One pack of noodles cost 10-15 cents but 75-80 cents in jail
Trevor: no snacks were ever offered. the commissary came twice per week and the prices were really expensive considering you have a bunch of hungry men with no job. It had thing like Ramen noodles and Slim Jims.

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