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Interview with Robert and Amanda

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
Robert: Three meals a day, 7 days a week
Amanda: You were given three meals a day

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
Robert: For institutional food it was not that bad. There was diversity in the food served. It was filling and on holidays it was appropriate to that specific holiday like Thanksgiving was turkey with all the trimmings and Christnas was ham with all the trimmings. They had dessert and drinks every dinner.
Amanda: The food was horrible when I was there bc the kitchen facility was being renovated. WE had to eat Banquet frozen meals that were never cooked- or if they were they were so burnt that you could not get the food off the plate. Also- you usually got the same banquet meal three's in a row.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
Robert: I always like breakfast and dinner and for breakfast there pancakes were good and for dinner chicken was always good.
Amanda: There was never a favorite banquet meal- but one time they ran out of them so we had semi-hard boiled eggs. They were good.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
Robert: No snacks but you could stick up from the commissary every two weeks and it was very reasonable and the choices were very diverse so you could maintain a steady stream of snacks if you had money.
Amanda: The other snacks were all chips and candy and things that you never even heard of. Alot of the girls ordered oodles of noodles and ate them instead of the meals. You could spend up to $100 a week on commissary.

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