CountyJail.net

Find Lehigh County Prison inmates...

Meals

Interview with April, Julie, Brenda, Cesar and Eddie

JM: How many meals did you get per day?
April: We got three per day, except on Saturday and Sunday, you got brunch instead of breakfast and lunch.
Julie: 3 square microwavable meals a day
Brenda: Monday through Friday was 3 meals. Saturday and Sunday only 2 meals.
Cesar: 3 meals breakfast lunch and dinner and on weekends you had brunch and dinner .
Eddie: Everyone is served 3 meals a day.

JM: How would you rate the food? Please give details of why.
April: On a scale from one to ten, ten being amazing and one being the worst, I would rate the food a 4. The reason I would rate it a 4 is because it was poorly made, repetitive meals, and you would get 4 pieces of bread and beans with every meal.
Julie: it was horrible. Nothing fresh about it even frozen veggies were gross. There was not one thing I ate there that was in the least bit appetizing. White bread, margarine, nasty bologna peanut butter,ew. The meat was referred to as squirrel, tasted so bad. oh, it was so bad. should be illegal.
Brenda: Fair. I was never hungry. They gave you a lot of bread. If someone didn't want their meal they could give it to you. You weren't allowed 2nd's but you could get 2nd's on a drink. I would always get more juice. It really wasn't that bad. I did have a lot of heartburn tho.
Cesar: well some days the food were good and some days the food were just dis liked do to likens . not that the food was bad or anything . you had you cereal for breakfast or eggs or oatmeal then you had your noodles hamburger chicken patty and things like that dinner were pretty decent .
Eddie: The food was fairly decent. On holidays special meals were given and you could option for certain trays such as no meat or lactose intolerant. Some type of meat or protein was served with every meal along with a milk and at breakfast juice was given too. Mixed fruit punch was also available.

JM: Did you have any favorite/least favorite meals?
April: Yes my favorite would be the brunch because the breakfast there is actually pretty decent and the least favorite would be the bologna sandwiches.
Julie: all of it was horrible. if i had to say something good, the dry cereal and pancakes were tolerable and an occasional cookie.
Brenda: NOT AT ALL lol. My favorite meal was a che che that I made from items on the canteen. I had money so I always ordered items to make my own food.
Cesar: yeah eggs and hash brown chicken patty for lunch and chicken for dinner . i hated cold cuts for lunch that sucked ...
Eddie: My favorite meal was the veggie burger I was on a neutral diet and received no meat by choice. Also oatmeal at breakfast was good.

JM: Were there any other snacks offered outside of meals? What was commissary like and how expensive was it?
April: There was no snack offered by the prison, but you could purchase commissary, which was outrageous prices. For a bag of coffee, four ounces, it was $5. And for a bag of chips that would normally cost a quarter in a store, is a dollar.
Julie: an occasional cake or cookie, or chocolate, no food from outside and we had vending machines available from 5 am to 10 pm for snacks and drinks for anybody who had money or found a way to break them out.
Brenda: You were allowed to order $80.00 every week. I always ordered $80.00 every week. I would order things like soups, chips, candy. I wish they had gum because I would of ordered that. But your basic snack food.
Cesar: yeah there were ice bars , or pudding . commissary was pretty expensive , and really not a good variety of items . but you had to make things last if not you got hungry by night and woke up hungry ...
Eddie: No snacks were offered but items were available on commissary such as roman soups, candy bars, chips, tuna packets and so on. Candy was about 1.50 each but soups only cost 55 cents. There was also mixed drink powder available.

Read about inmate access to medication in the Lehigh County Prison