I've been here less than two weeks and I'm already beginning to realize why the Freshman 15 is such a plague for most college students. When I take a look around campus on my way to class, I am sometimes in aw of the number of students that are carrying around a significant amount of extra body weight. I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, seeing as how the number of overweight students directly correlates to the dining options we have here on campus...
My mom has gotten frequent calls home from me concerning the dining options that are available. Whereas most colleges, I believe, have some sort of cafeteria where students basically have an all-you-can-eat buffet at their disposal, my college uses something called 'dining dollars.' We're given a card with $1,700 dollars on it and this amount is supposed to buy all of our meals for the semester. There are select vendors that accept our 'dining dollars' card, so I find that we're very limited in terms of what we have to choose from.
The main dining outlet on campus is comprised of a few different vendors...all of which have little to nothing that suits my diet. Wendy's is the number 1 place where I have seen most students buy lunch. It's convenient, quick, and gross. If you need to eat on the run in between classes, Wendy's is the spot to go...if you're looking for you're next episode of cardiac arrest in a bun.
I can't say that my diet has been completely clean either. I think that in comparison to most other people I've meet, my choices are pretty good, but then again, who am I really comparing myself to?
The school proudly advertises their 'Vegan/Vegetarian Hot Bar' but when I went there the buy something to eat, this was the best I could do:
I had to take a few hours to sleep this one off. I really didn't feel good after eating it.
I can't knock every on-campus restaurant though. I have found a select few that somewhat cater to my needs. The first one is Robeks. I've been going there periodically over the last week for smoothies and wheatgrass shots. A regular smoothie runs about $5.50, but the size of it is pretty large:
Each time I go, I make sure to tell them to leave out the sorbet, yogurt, or anything else they put into it that isn't fruit or ice.
Another smoothie place I found is located upstairs from the fitness center...pretty convenient. I've gotten wheatgrass shots from there as well. The wheatgrass really keeps me going.
Being raw in college isn't working out very well so far, but right now I'm working on just staying on top on my veganism as much as possible. My mom tells me that I should try to do some sort of 'lobbying' in order to get some healthy grocery stores to join the 'dining dollars' list of vendors. We'll see how it all progresses.
More updates to come.
Raw. Love.
-Natalie
My mom has gotten frequent calls home from me concerning the dining options that are available. Whereas most colleges, I believe, have some sort of cafeteria where students basically have an all-you-can-eat buffet at their disposal, my college uses something called 'dining dollars.' We're given a card with $1,700 dollars on it and this amount is supposed to buy all of our meals for the semester. There are select vendors that accept our 'dining dollars' card, so I find that we're very limited in terms of what we have to choose from.
The main dining outlet on campus is comprised of a few different vendors...all of which have little to nothing that suits my diet. Wendy's is the number 1 place where I have seen most students buy lunch. It's convenient, quick, and gross. If you need to eat on the run in between classes, Wendy's is the spot to go...if you're looking for you're next episode of cardiac arrest in a bun.
I can't say that my diet has been completely clean either. I think that in comparison to most other people I've meet, my choices are pretty good, but then again, who am I really comparing myself to?
The school proudly advertises their 'Vegan/Vegetarian Hot Bar' but when I went there the buy something to eat, this was the best I could do:
I had to take a few hours to sleep this one off. I really didn't feel good after eating it.
I can't knock every on-campus restaurant though. I have found a select few that somewhat cater to my needs. The first one is Robeks. I've been going there periodically over the last week for smoothies and wheatgrass shots. A regular smoothie runs about $5.50, but the size of it is pretty large:
Each time I go, I make sure to tell them to leave out the sorbet, yogurt, or anything else they put into it that isn't fruit or ice.
Another smoothie place I found is located upstairs from the fitness center...pretty convenient. I've gotten wheatgrass shots from there as well. The wheatgrass really keeps me going.
Being raw in college isn't working out very well so far, but right now I'm working on just staying on top on my veganism as much as possible. My mom tells me that I should try to do some sort of 'lobbying' in order to get some healthy grocery stores to join the 'dining dollars' list of vendors. We'll see how it all progresses.
More updates to come.
Raw. Love.
-Natalie
1 comment:
that's so frustrating. have you seen kathykath on rawfu? she has a pretty good dorm minikitchen set up.
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