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Meals

Interview with Lisa, Bill, Ron, Cindi and Holly

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Lisa: 3
Bill: 3
Ron: 3
Cindi: 3 meals a day, no snacks
Holly: 3 meals were given per day

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Lisa: 4-Not that great
Bill: 3 on a scale of 1 - 10
Ron: Actually very good, just no plentiful. If it wasn't for commissary I would have always been starving. But cheeseburgers and fry's. Pancakes and sausage, Meatloaf & mashed potato's and corn...Stir fry, Soup like very good soup, stuff I would buy soup, actually some of the best soup I have ever had soup. With a sandwich(turkey, bologna, pb&j, even freaking salami w/chz, and grilled chz) And it was always freshly cooked, fresh ingredients and always served very hot.
Cindi: It wasn't great. I had a vegetarian diet so I ate a bunch of beans and rice. Basically all day every day. And there was no coffee which made a lot of us quite sad. But the rest of the food for the most part looked edible. The meals were small though.
Holly: The food was better than other jails I have been to, but I didn't eat much of it because it is very bland and doesn't seem to have much nutritional value. Most of the time if I did eat the meals, my stomach would start hurting, so I would avoid most of the processed items.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Lisa: No
Bill: They were all pretty much the same - a couple slices of bread, some sort of corn meal, milk and a fruit.
Ron: Favorite- Turkey sand w/ broccoli cheese soup. 4 crackers, a juice, and sliced pears...The chz burger french frys, hot dog, potato chips and cookie pack was the biggest. Least- Some sweet and sour rice crap with applesauce..That was the only bad one I had..
Cindi: I feel like all I ate was beans and rice. But it was nice when we got things like fruit or pretzels that were easily saved for a snack later.
Holly: The cake and baked goods were pretty good. But, they don't serve cake very often. My least favorite was the mystery meat or 'steak' with gravy.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Lisa: No
Bill: You could purchase 1 x per week.
Ron: Whatever you wanted to buy. On the list...I liked Pork Rinds, Peanut Butter Bars, and Atomic Fire Balls, and Jalapeno Chz Sauce myself.
Cindi: There was comissary, and it was decently priced, ordered on TUesdays and delivered on Fridays. We didn't get snacks in between meals. We did however save fruit or other things from the meals to eat later, however we were really supposed to do that.
Holly: The only other snacks that were offered were for diabetics or women that were pregnant and they were given a fruit, milk, and half a sandwich and this was during the evening generally, a few hours after we had eaten dinner. The commissary is expensive and there wasn't much to choose from. There are very little healthy options and everything is overpriced.

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