My question involves criminal law for the state of: New Jersey
I currently work for a B&N college bookstore (seasonal) at a certain University in NJ. I work less than 7 hrs a week at minimum wage.
About 2-3 weeks ago I stole $10 worth of food/snacks from my job. I didn't want to do it but I have been without food and surviving on maybe 1 meal a day. I have sought for help but everything takes time and there's a lot of other obstacles. In any rate I thought I could do it then pay back secretly somehow whenever I got enough money to do so.
Yesterday my store manager started posting signs for all employees that had certain protocols and one of the "new rules" on the sign was "Bag Check will be happening at end of everyone's shift". This got me very nervous because now I'm thinking somehow they caught on what I did 2-3 weeks ago. What made my paranoia worse was when my manager asked me to speak with her before I left my shift but we never got to speak because when I approached her she was busy and I couldn't wait because I had class.
I have work tomorrow and I am not sure if she will be there and I have no idea if I had been caught or not. My instincts are telling me to either face the music or just call out sick tomorrow and keep applying to other jobs relentlessly and quit over the phone before anything is said.
I am truly scared because I am just a college student who was literally trying to not starve and I know I made a big mistake but I don't want my life, especially my academics, to be ruined over a can of chef Boyardee and a poptart pastry.
Please I need to know what's the worst that can/may happen to me? Is there anything I can do?

