. >> inmates like david monroe have found a more creative albeit more expensive option in cell cookinged beef tacos and in here, in prison, we have to cook in bags. we get this off the canned goods, take the top off so you can cut. other than that you don't have much to cut with. it's a whole lot harder than having a knife. as long as you ain't using it as a knife the officers ain't -- they understand that you have to cut your meat. i haven't eaten anything in the chow hall in a really long time. i'd say a good year or so. i can cook pretty good. it tastes very well. i can definitely hide the fact that it's coming from an inmate. you wouldn't know the difference. you just mix it up like that in a bag, then you put it in here and it will cook itself and give it like 10, 15 minutes. i grew up with all girls. so i learned from them. and then most of the times i was by myself because i was always skipping school so i had to cook for myself. i was basically the same as the kids i associated with, troubled youth. bad family, you know. father was alcoholic. used to beat my mom. he ran out on