Food insecurity

[VoidCat]

So I made this thread a few days ago:
Longest you've gone without food

Now im making this poll.
Who here has faced food insecurity? For the purpose of this thread imma define it as being uncertain if you will be able to afford enough food to eat three meals a day. If you elebroate please put where you from in the comments if you want to you don't have to.

 

[VoidCat]

Tagging @9-10ths_Penguin
Here's the thread I said I'd make

 

[Stevicus]

On the subject of food insecurity, sometimes what gives me pause is thinking about the Siege of Leningrad and the starvation faced in that city during the war. They ate up the dogs and cats, then sparrows, mice and rats. Even bugs. Leather soup and crackers made from sawdust - anything to put something in your stomach.

Top Ramen would be a feast compared to that, and baloney sandwiches would be like Christmas dinner.

 

[VoidCat]

On the subject of food insecurity, sometimes what gives me pause is thinking about the Siege of Leningrad and the starvation faced in that city during the war. They ate up the dogs and cats, then sparrows, mice and rats. Even bugs. Leather soup and crackers made from sawdust - anything to put something in your stomach.

Top Ramen would be a feast compared to that, and baloney sandwiches would be like Christmas dinner.

I've once went without food for 2 weeks.

However...

I don't think it's fair to compare one person's struggles to another. Struggle is struggle. I agree somewhat with you however in my opinion food insecurity is still a problem even if you managed to eat everyday or not eat leather soup and sawdust crackers.

 

[Stevicus]

I've once went without food for 2 weeks.

However...

I don't think it's fair to compare one person's struggles to another. Struggle is struggle. I agree somewhat with you however in my opinion food insecurity is still a problem even if you managed to eat everyday or not eat leather soup and sawdust crackers.

I wasn't trying to compare struggle. Sorry if it came across that way. It was more a matter of putting things into perspective and realizing that we all struggle in different ways.

Although it's a different situation in a city in war where a six-month supply of food is burned up in a single night, as opposed to a country like ours (in a state of peace) where tons of food are thrown away every day and denied to people because it's not profitable enough.

 

[RestlessSoul]

I went without food quite often in my 20s and 30s but tbh that was mostly because I couldn’t budget, and often spent a month’s salary in a week, often on booze and drugs.

There are lots of people in the U.K. currently, who are reliant on food banks - charity, in other words - to feed themselves and their families. Many of these are working people. This is the point which increasingly unregulated, free market capitalism has brought a comparatively wealthy country to. I say unregulated, but several decades of anti Trades Union legislation has weakened working people’s hands and exacerbated the problem

 

[JustGeorge]

Although it's a different situation in a city in war where a six-month supply of food is burned up in a single night, as opposed to a country like ours (in a state of peace) where tons of food are thrown away every day and denied to people because it's not profitable enough.

People get vindictive about it, too...

Stores around here have to throw away any fresh food at closing time. Some will pour bleach over he discarded food to keep people from taking it out of the dumpster...

 

[pearl]

Stores around here have to throw away any fresh food at closing time. Some will pour bleach over he discarded food to keep people from taking it out of the dumpster...

There are many laws for the purpose of protecting donating food that make it difficult for those looking for a meal. One local restaurant made up a bunch of sandwiches etc to feed the needy and was forbidden to give them away due to regulations. It had to be thrown out. Personally, I found it easier to give monthly to the local food bank. Sometimes I come across a young person or teenager hanging around the grocery store looking for money which I don't give but will come out with a sandwich and drink. etc.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Q: Have you every faced food insecurity?
A: No.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

Yeah, especially during farming days. There's a special kind of struggle when you have food that you're raising or growing but you can't afford to eat it, because if you lose the income from the food you'll lose the land on which you grow it.

 

[Evangelicalhumanist]

When the Children's Aid could no longer care for me (by law, not their fault), I was basically alone on the streets of Toronto, with no notion at all of how to care for myself. I spent many hungry days. I never want to go back to that, it was awful.

Now, of course, my struggle is how to keep the weight gain under some sort of tenuous control -- and not doing as well as I should. I'm going to chalk that up to aging, rather than a rather too liberal beer habit.

 

[Truth in love]

So I made this thread a few days ago:
Longest you've gone without food

Now im making this poll.
Who here has faced food insecurity? For the purpose of this thread imma define it as being uncertain if you will be able to afford enough food to eat three meals a day. If you elebroate please put where you from in the comments if you want to you don't have to.

I’ve been close. One time in particular I had about five buck to my name, a week until I’d have more money and enough food for maybe 1-2 days. A very kind lady (who did not know this) bought me about a weeks worth of food.
Several time I’ve been at the eggs roman and bean level of getting by, but I’ve not had to go to bed hungry.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Stores around here have to throw away any fresh food at closing time. Some will pour bleach over he discarded food to keep people from taking it out of the dumpster...

That **** makes my blood boil!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I've been through food insecurity a few times and utilized gas station reward points as a primary means of feeding myself.
Though fortunately the last time was long ago enough that I don't even feel the tug anymore of brand loyalty that feed me many times when I was poor.

 

[Brickjectivity]

I slept in a car and storage unit for a couple of months, but I ate every day. I worried about various things but not food. I worried about the quality of my food and personal safety, and I felt bad about worrying my relatives. I didn't worry about food.