<p>I’m just trying to figure this out for my son. He lives about an hour and a half away, so I expect that he will occasionally come home for the weekend, but with him playing in the marching band, it probably won’t be that often.</p>
<p>All one would have to do to cost justify the cost of the 21 meal plan ($1339) over the 16 mean plan ($1361-$100 = $1261) is to just use 17 meals a week. Assuming that during the week you ate 3 times a day, and just twice over a weekend, that would be 17 a week. If one ate 17 times a week, that’s not really “wasting” anything, any meals over 17 would just be a bonus.</p>
<p>When I went to college I almost ALWAYS ate all three meals on campus during the week, and usually the evening meal on Sunday night - but I went home every weekend. I wouldn’t think it would be unusual for a student who is pretty much on campus during the weekend (and broke) to eat at several times on campus over the course of a weekend.</p>
<p>So has college life changed that much??? Where are you guy’s eating? Off campus? Dormrooms? Skipping meals?</p>