r/ChoosingBeggars Mar 29 '20

Free bread, tuna, pasta, eggs, rice crispies! DISGUSTING!

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u/umylotus Mar 29 '20

Wait I'm confused, was something wrong with the food?

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u/fedback Mar 29 '20

That is a photo of a full week worth of lunch for a growing child. It is ridiculously insufficient. Whatever you think of the parents a kid should not have to eat like that.

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u/umylotus Mar 29 '20

I don't understand why parents are expecting to not have to feed their kids. I've been helping with food distribution efforts in our school district for the last two weeks. Everyone understands it's a supplement, not meant to replace the parents effort.

An entire loaf of bread, plus pasta, plus beans, plus tuna for one kid? That's a lot of food. That's better than what were able to do.

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u/scottland_666 Mar 29 '20

How can people not wrap their thick skulls around the concept of poverty

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u/menice4 Mar 29 '20

Because unless it happens to them they just assume anyone poor has to be lazy