College food

fogfog
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:15:53 +0000

As we have been looking at schools, we have been surprised at the wide variety of meal plans and quality etc of food service.

BU has an amazing food service program which our son liked.

As an athlete–he eats alot of high quality food here at home so standard of lving at school will be considered.

I asked about the food service on the MIT board and didn’t realize what a hornets nest I was stepping into–as MIT has a limited dinner plan and there is no full service swipe and eat meal plan.

A friend of ours has a fresh boy at MIT. He east breakfast in his room. Takes a bag lunch…and eith cooks for himself or goes to Subway or similar for dinner. So I was wondering about a life of poptarts and Subway…kwim. Fun for a day or two but not every day.

Our son attends a private school with an excellent food service. They have salad bar, burgers etc, sandwich options and 2-3 entress and sides as options daily…a far cry from the really really bad food service at the local hs (I substitute teach so I see alot)

As a family we eat a nice homecooked dinner at the table together 5-6 nights a week and cooking for me is a apssion…so my kids have a pretty sophisticated palate…and aren’t whiners about things.

We haven’t eaten at some of the colleges which will likely make up his short list–but will be revisiting every school and check it out so he knows what to expect.