Opinion ID: 595042
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Heading: Food

Text: 16 Plaintiff alleged that prison officials deliberately served him unfit food and spoiled milk. Prison officials are required to provide inmates with  'nutritionally adequate food that is prepared and served under conditions which do not present an immediate danger to the health and well being of the inmates who consume it.'  French v. Owens, 777 F.2d 1250, 1255 (7th Cir.1985) (quoting Ramos v. Lamm, 639 F.2d 559, 570-71 (10th Cir.1980)), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 817 (1986); Woods v. Thieret, 903 F.2d 1080, 1082 (7th Cir.1990). 17 The district court denied leave to proceed, determining that the allegations were insufficient regarding how the food was unfit, and how receipt of spoiled milk for a week would rise to the level of a constitutional deprivation. (Order of July 20, 1987, at 8). We agree that whether the food was unfit is uncertain. There was also no allegation that the unfit food posed an immediate danger to plaintiff. Although plaintiff's complaint stated that he suffered a jaw infection for which he was prescribed penicillin, he does not allege that the unfit food was a cause of this infection until appeal. 3 Furthermore, plaintiff failed to replead this claim even though denial of leave to proceed was without prejudice. 18 Additionally, plaintiff alleges in his appellate brief the routine receipt of deliberately contaminated food as a form of retaliation on the part of prison officials for his, at least, partially successful attempts to exercise his constitutional right of access to the court. However, because these allegations are raised for the first time on appeal, they are not properly before this court for resolution. Toro v. Fairman, 940 F.2d 1065, 1067 (7th Cir.1991), cert. denied, 112 S.Ct. 3038 (1992); Kensington Rock Island v. American Eagle Hist. Partners, 921 F.2d 122 (7th Cir.1990). Accordingly, we conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing plaintiff's claim of an Eighth Amendment violation through receipt of unfit food.