I'd smile and say thank you if the alternative was going hungry.
I've lived on worse while working to make things better. What are YOU doing to make things better?
I think that's pretty obvious.Are you trolling?
Hokey schmoke...public library...funky posting technique. Could it be???I just find it odd that someone who can't afford food has the time and access to complain about it on the internet. even if you're posting from a public library or other "free" source...wouldn't this time be better spent trying to find a job? or a better job?
Plain Cheerios??? Oh the horror!!
Are you trolling? Seriously? Dude, I could survive for an entire week on a loaf of bread and a $2 jar of peanut butter. You have some nerve.
Funny thing is, my grandchildren loved those when they were little. Always had a baggie of them on me.
I can't tell how many times I've survived on pasta. :lol: And that's without meat sauce too!
I like taking cherry tomatoes, drizzling them with olive oil and sprinkling them with basil, then baking them at 350 until they burst. I then add them to a pot of cooked pasta with a little butter, parmesan and rosemary. Yum. It's pretty light, too. I use whole wheat pasta. It's still pasta, but better for you than the regular stuff. Sometimes if I am feeling really naughty, I add sweet Italian sausage and fresh mozzarella. I am not much of a fan of spaghetti sauce.
:lol: Sorry. We make that a lot during the summer (sans the sausage and mozz) because it's really light. It gets so unbelievable hot down here from about May to about October, that we don't eat anything heavy. We eat salads, we grill out a lot, etc. Definitely nothing to give you a food hangover.
We participate in a local food pantry and it is nothing like what is being described here. The food is current and good. It's a big drive with commercial donations but also private ones, and we all know when it is. A small local grocery store (IGA) plans their 2 for 1 and 5 for 5 sales just before it and clean up. It has even gotten to the point where people have carved out their own niches. We contribute pastas, pasta sauces and vacuum sealed coffee. Someone else handles diapers. Someone else buys tons of breakfast cereal. There is always some outdated stuff and plenty of bags of rice and such, but I see things like Breakfast Essentials mix, powdered baby formulas and even gas station gift cards. The really encouraging part is that we often see people in line to receive one day and helping with distribution the next day. If you want to improve it, don't just be on one side of line all the time, volunteer your time on the other end and see how much better it gets. I know people who absolutely depended on it in the past who are now major contributors. But if you have been in the same situation for a year you don't have a food problem, you have a location problem. It's time to move. There are still people in Detroit waiting for their jobs to come back. It ain't happening. Moving is not that hard to do when you have nothing to carry.
I understand that. But criticizing me for coming on this forum complaining isn't helping me do anything but complain more.
The main thing I am trying to say is that food pantries always givs you food from 1900s and not current food. How would you like it if you were only given plain old cheerios, unflavord milk, cannd vegetabls, spagetti strings but no meat sauce, and a slight-to-moderate load of tomato-related products?' You call that helping the hunger?
Wow, you guys are nothing but stubborn asswipes.
First off, do you guys know what a troll is? If you do, why the **** are you coming to the immediate conclusion that I am a 'troll'? Just because somebody posts something severely controversial doesn't make them a troll.
Secondly, I'll say this again: Bashing me because I am complaining isn't doing anything but making me complain more. It doesn't work that way.
It's obvious that the people on this forum just can't handl controversial topics and irrelevent bitching since all you guys do is accuse people of being a troll JUST because they post sumthing oddly unusual and strange.
You guys are just....I'm not going to say it.
Wow, you guys are nothing but stubborn asswipes.
First off, do you guys know what a troll is? If you do, why the **** are you coming to the immediate conclusion that I am a 'troll'? Just because somebody posts something severely controversial doesn't make them a troll.
Secondly, I'll say this again: Bashing me because I am complaining isn't doing anything but making me complain more. It doesn't work that way.
It's obvious that the people on this forum just can't handl controversial topics and irrelevent bitching since all you guys do is accuse people of being a troll JUST because they post sumthing oddly unusual and strange.
You guys are just....I'm not going to say it.
Why are you not gratefull? Does the food make you sick? If you dislike the food you have an option. Don't go take it.
Guess you want prime T-Bone, lobster, maybe some fine $200 bottle of wine to go with the free meal.
Bet you could find some ways to cut your household expenses. If you are going to food banks, are you not qualifying for food stamps?
I am not really believing your story., sorry.
Nope. I said the same thing. Things aren't adding up. If they're that broke, they'd qualify for food stamps. If they make too much money for food stamps, they should cut back on cable, internet, booze, weed, wherever the money goes that it shouldn't be going if times are tight.
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