Food and Hunger

Food Quality

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  Corner Store

  Mother: Crystal R
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  Breakfast

  Mother: Ashley O
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  Groceries

  Mother: Tianna G

  This was somebody else's cart.  I was looking at how much their cart was loaded.  There is so much food out there!

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  Street Corner

  Mother: Tianna G
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  Make with these hands money

  Mother: Shelly G

  Let’s say Welfare is giving me this money… every two weeks I get a check but I still have to make with these hands money. Because my kids still need to eat for those two weeks. So they say food banks… the food banks give you canned food. Who’s gonna eat cans of tomato sauce? Nobody. I may do someone’s hair and be able to get noodles with that tomato sauce to feed the kids, to feed myself.

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  Nyima drinking juice

  Mother: Tamika H

  She’s a very picky eater and she eats when and what she wants to eat. I buy what she likes but when I make what she likes she doesn't want to eat it. 

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  Oodles of noodles

  Mother: Melissa H

  And the kids know my food stamps got cut off. Because when they came home from school today, they didn’t have their snacks. So they know that I didn’t go to the market. I really didn’t tell them why or anything like that, because I don’t think they understand. But it affected them. 

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  Oodles of noodles

  Mother: Melissa H
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  Snack time

  Mother: Melissa H
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  Food cupboard

  Mother: Janelle R

  That’s just some of the canned goods. Usually it's filled up more than that. Eggs and bread go fast, so after all the bread and milk is gone it does look kind of different in the kitchen.

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  Brothers

  Mother: Janelle R

   I breastfed the oldest one. The youngest one, he gets sick a lot, but my oldest one doesn’t really get sick at all, because I breastfed him … [the younger one] had to stay in the hospital for about seven days because I caught an infection and then it passed through him. And at the time I couldn’t afford a breast pump. I couldn’t get to a pump fast enough so my milk dried up and I couldn’t breastfeed.

   

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  Expired yogurt

  Mother: Angelica R

  She was asking me for that yogurt. I felt so bad because it was outdated. It was old so I couldn’t give it to her. She was asking me for it, I said, ‘I don’t have it. It’s no good’… She was actually crying because I took it off of her and dumped it. And I didn’t have like anything else to give her.

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  Sugary treats

  Mother: Gale G
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  Bananas

  Mother: Gale G
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  A balanced meal

  Mother: Gale G
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  Eating lunch

  Mother: Myra Y
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  Eggs and Beacon

  Mother: Sherry R
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  Refrigerator

  Mother: Sherry R
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  Refrigerator

  Mother: Sherry R
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  Freezer

  Mother: Sherry R