What passes for food here

I mentioned before that breakfast here is served at 3:30 or 4 a.m. Lunch is served at 10 a.m. and dinner is at 4 p.m.

I didn't yet go into detail about the food, but most of it is unidentifiable. Even after eating it, I'm hungry all the time and use the money my parents put in my commissary account to buy more food, such as Ramen noodles, canned meat and coffee. I mix the Ramen noodles and canned meat together to eat.

The trays we eat off of are big and bulky. They're made from plastic and are about 3" thick.

Some items we get for breakfast:

- meat and potatoes
- grits and powdered eggs
- cornflakes and a peanut butter sandwich

We get a teeny juice and milk with breakfast.

Some of the thing we get for lunch or dinner:

- meat patty and potatoes
- mac n' cheese and a hot dog
- balony sandwich and noodles

For dessert we get a scoop of rice pudding, a chocolate chip cookie or dry cake. We used to get bread pudding, but haven't gotten that in over a month.

We also get a small cup of juice.

On Thanksgiving we got turkey, something that resembled stuffing and jello. That's better than the juvenile detention center at the Pinellas County Jail though. The year I was there for Thanksgiving, we got a baloney sandwich for our holiday meal.

More than one person (including someone that had worked in the kitchen) has told me that the juice in our cups is poured from big bottles that have a skull and crossbones on the bottle. There's a warning on the bottle that says that long-term drinking of it is poison. Who knows if this is really true?

I know one inmate who was a large person when he came to the jail, but lost over 200 lbs. after being here a year and a half.