I see you're going to die on this hill.

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Anonymous wrote:I get assistance from a food bank. We get white rice, white bread, and white pasta. The fruit is bananas. The vegetables are carrots and canned or bagged white beans. I don’t know who decides what to put in the food box, but they either think we won’t eat whole grains or whole grains are too expensive. We end up with the unhealthiest version of everything.

I don’t mean to sound like a jerk but even white pasta and white rice can make the basis for some pretty healthy meals depending on what you put on top.

OMFG, that's the whole point! There's nothing to put on top. Damn...

Ask or buy an onion, garlic, and cooking oil. Sauteed the onion and garlic and toss pasta. Delicious and served in most Italian restaurants.

People shouldn't have to buy food. It's a human right!

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Anonymous wrote:Watched a woman use her child to steal food from the hot bar at premium grocery store.

I was about to grab an item from the hot bar. She was there before me. Then she got on her phone. I noticed the toddler (not infant but 1-2 year old) in the stroller.

What made me look hard was the container she used. She grabbed a soup container from the other side of the bar (instead of the hot bar containers). Then she put about 10 premium chicken nuggets in the container and then handed them to jar daughter to eat.

I thought that maybe she would try to pass them off as soup at the checkout. But no, she had the kid eat the nuggets. I was behind her at checkout. 3 cannolis put on the conveyor while the kid remained hidden in the stroller, finishing up the nuggets.

Security guard was nearby. He did not see it. I told the clerks and she hurried out of the store before anything could have been said. I’m sure that had I not said anything that she would have “sampled” more food.

Disgusted.

Why are you monitoring what other people do, much less post about it? What is your major dysfunction? This isn’t going to affect Jeff.

OP here. People like you sort of annoy me. Everyone has the right to come here and share their thoughts and/or story. You have the right to respond or to ignore what I post. This is an off-topic forum for topics just like this. I don't understand your problem with this. You act as if I can't share my experience because you don't like me talking about this. I am grateful that Jeff and others offer a platform for sharing what appears to be a divided social issue.

Last night, I sat around a table with friends and shared this story and asked for their honest take. Some things resonated with what some of you have shared. Other things fell in line with my thinking. But we all agreed that this is an honest issue, a challenging issue and more importantly an issue that will probably continue to manifest itself in other stores due to the economics of our lives right now.

I still say that this is an all or nothing type of issue. I've just seen it and heard about it in so many situations. But the good news for his lady and her child is that there are forms of resource help and government aid for those in need. That's all that we can do.

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Anonymous wrote:I get assistance from a food bank. We get white rice, white bread, and white pasta. The fruit is bananas. The vegetables are carrots and canned or bagged white beans. I don’t know who decides what to put in the food box, but they either think we won’t eat whole grains or whole grains are too expensive. We end up with the unhealthiest version of everything.

I don’t mean to sound like a jerk but even white pasta and white rice can make the basis for some pretty healthy meals depending on what you put on top.

OMFG, that's the whole point! There's nothing to put on top. Damn...

Ask or buy an onion, garlic, and cooking oil. Sauteed the onion and garlic and toss pasta. Delicious and served in most Italian restaurants.

Low class

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get assistance from a food bank. We get white rice, white bread, and white pasta. The fruit is bananas. The vegetables are carrots and canned or bagged white beans. I don’t know who decides what to put in the food box, but they either think we won’t eat whole grains or whole grains are too expensive. We end up with the unhealthiest version of everything.

But does that mean you are going to steal?

Apparently, they steal healthy chicken mcnuggets

What is healthy about a tiny bit of chicken covered in heavy breading and deep fried?

Non GMO breading of course and not fried in seed oils.

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Anonymous wrote:I get assistance from a food bank. We get white rice, white bread, and white pasta. The fruit is bananas. The vegetables are carrots and canned or bagged white beans. I don’t know who decides what to put in the food box, but they either think we won’t eat whole grains or whole grains are too expensive. We end up with the unhealthiest version of everything.

But does that mean you are going to steal?

Apparently, they steal healthy chicken mcnuggets

What is healthy about a tiny bit of chicken covered in heavy breading and deep fried?

Anonymous wrote:I get assistance from a food bank. We get white rice, white bread, and white pasta. The fruit is bananas. The vegetables are carrots and canned or bagged white beans. I don’t know who decides what to put in the food box, but they either think we won’t eat whole grains or whole grains are too expensive. We end up with the unhealthiest version of everything.

I volunteer in a community food bank and we can only give out what we are given. In our food bank we have never packed what you describe.

Nevertheless, white rice, pasta, white bread, bananas and carrots are preferable to going hungry.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. The woman was dressed in long skirt, hair was covered but not face. Flip flops. Pedicure. Not overtly religious garb, but definitely non-American traditional garb.

A cross between Jami Gertz/Shakira.

What is the point of this description? Are you looking for someone to ID her?

Op. Someone asked what she looked like. I left it generic in the beginning. But someone persisted. So I gave most of the details. I don’t think that really matters, but for some, it seems like it does.

And for those who said I stared her down, go back and read what I shared. She was right in front of me. Twice. How would I not know what she was wearing? She was stealing right in front of me. Like I said, she probably wouldn’t have stood out if she had used the right container. But that drew my attention. The fact that she immediately got on her cell phone while picking for the nuggets. She was really smooth, but I was there.




Someone said I must have seen someone steal before. Yep, many times. Many not remorseful. Some lives were put in danger.

Like I shared earlier, you end up developing an all or nothing attitude. Either it’s all okay or none of it’s okay, it’s not conditional, really, because everyone can give you a reason as to why they stole, that’s important to them.

No, this is the black and white attitude developed by emotionally immature and cognitively rigid people. The rest of us understand, accept, and reason through the many shades of gray that exist in life and circumstances.

Girl, you either need a hobby or therapy. Probably both.

There are no gray areas in stealing. A thief is a thief.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. The woman was dressed in long skirt, hair was covered but not face. Flip flops. Pedicure. Not overtly religious garb, but definitely non-American traditional garb.

A cross between Jami Gertz/Shakira.

What is the point of this description? Are you looking for someone to ID her?

Op. Someone asked what she looked like. I left it generic in the beginning. But someone persisted. So I gave most of the details. I don’t think that really matters, but for some, it seems like it does.

And for those who said I stared her down, go back and read what I shared. She was right in front of me. Twice. How would I not know what she was wearing? She was stealing right in front of me. Like I said, she probably wouldn’t have stood out if she had used the right container. But that drew my attention. The fact that she immediately got on her cell phone while picking for the nuggets. She was really smooth, but I was there.




Someone said I must have seen someone steal before. Yep, many times. Many not remorseful. Some lives were put in danger.

Like I shared earlier, you end up developing an all or nothing attitude. Either it’s all okay or none of it’s okay, it’s not conditional, really, because everyone can give you a reason as to why they stole, that’s important to them.

No, this is the black and white attitude developed by emotionally immature and cognitively rigid people. The rest of us understand, accept, and reason through the many shades of gray that exist in life and circumstances.

Girl, you either need a hobby or therapy. Probably both.