2 fried eggs with 4 strips of bacon piled on a toasted bagel at 6 am and I am good for the day in the summer. I eat twice a day in the winter out of boredom more than anything.

I just eat whatever my wife puts in my lunchbox. It’s free every day. Breakfast, lunch and a snack.

I just mention what I want on Sunday, and and it magically shows up in the fridge every day for me to take in the morning each day.

Said on Friday I need more coffee for work, and it magically showed up in my bag to take to work.

lol

Well, I usually get up at 4, give me some credit.....

Was going to say, some of us get up early enough to be having second breakfast by 8 am.

Or ready for a nap!

I get up at 3am on work days but usually don't eat until supper time.

WHAT? The first thing I do is drink a whole pot of coffee. After that, my guts are churning and I need to get food in there. After that I am good to go.

You would think she would be hungry after making sure she made her husband a sandwich for his lunch and cooking his breakfast

I drink a cup or two of coffee.... then switch to white monsters until I get off work, then either buy or cook supper.

White monsters?

I hope you….

Those things are bad for you.

I make breakfast sandwiches/wraps that I keep in the freezer for Pete to eat when I am at work. There's also lunchmeat if he wants to fix himself a sandwich, but he usually doesn't.

Believe me... white monsters are the least of my problems LOL

You sure nailed it there, a few years ago it came out that several kids in the area didn't have a bed to sleep on and were having to sleep on the floor. Well, several beds were donated for the kids complete with mattresses, pillows, blankets, sheets and a comforter. I was part of a group that was helping to deliver the beds, at the first house we went to there was a man sitting there in a chair all stretched out playing on a phone. Even though we were bringing beds for the children of the house he couldn't be bothered to move until a deputy with him asked if he was going to get out of the way or did he need to run a warrants check. That's how sorry a lot of people are, the local Walmart has to black out the bar codes on the stuff that kids get through the shop with a cop program to keep the parents from returning it. But they always seem to have money for beer, cigarettes, and drugs, society is broken.

If you can’t feed, don’t breed.

Makes sense in a lot of areas of life.

Michael Jackson wasn’t wrong in that song.

If you can’t feed the baby, don’t have the baby.

Feed the kids with what your already taking for me make cuts to admin at the local and state levels to cover it.

You say “huge expenditure”, and I suppose it may look that way to you. But again, $.0028 per tax dollar is spent on the free and reduced school lunch program per dollar of taxes paid. Pay $10,000 in taxes in a year, $28 goes to feeding the kids. You may have a moral issue with that, and that is your right to feel that way, but it isn’t like that $28 a year has much significance if you are already paying $10,000. But it’s true in an absolute sense, you could be keeping your $28 and only paying $9,972 a year. I just think it is important to keep this in perspective - again, you can have a moral issue with even a penny of your money in your lifetime going to feed someone else’s kid, but as far as you tax bill goes, feeding those kids is not the reason your taxes are high if you feel they are too high.

Agreed - these parents are despicable, there simply is no nice way to say it and it is heartbreaking. But that kid didn’t choose those parents. I just can’t look at a hungry kid and not want to feed them, don’t care how useless the parents are. You are definitely free to feel differently, guess I just have a soft heart for children in general no matter if it enables the parents.

Great advice and rule to live by. But for the low life parents who don’t heed it, I can’t stand kids going hungry. It isn’t perfect, but at least I know that $28 of every $10,000 I pay in taxes helps make sure the unfortunate children of those dbags are getting at least one meal every day.
My best friend is a cop in Ohio, and last summer he arrested parents of 2 kids who were literally starving while the parents had a cell phone and drugs and alcohol in the house. He said there was nothing but half jar of peanut butter and a few slices of moldy bread in the cupboard, and the fridge didn’t even work. He said it was enough to trigger his “one feeling” that he still has after seeing so many people at their worst in his line of work, and he went and got them some Culvers on his dime while the other officers waited for CPS to arrive. Is it the parents’ fault? Absolutely! But that doesn’t make it easier to ignore a hungry child.