<p>I have a kitchen in my dorm, but I can’t cook much. I usually have dinner at the dining hall, at least 5-6 days a week</p>
<p>breakfast - cereal, bagels, fruit and cheese, muffins, pop tarts, waffles, eggs, granola bars
lunch/dinner - pastas, salads, sandwiches, wraps, chicken nuggets, tacos, nachos, mashed potatoes, soup, casseroles, burgers, lasagna…I usually make a couple turkey or chicken wraps and leave them in the fridge so it’s convenient for whenever. also keep lots of fruit/veggies around for snacking.</p>
<p>i normally eat in the oncampus cafiteria 3 times a day, class permitting. However this semester i’m going to try my hand at makeing onigiri (rice balls). Oh this shall be interesting.</p>
<p>I survive on granola bars, yogurt, oatmeal, fruit, and trail mix during the day. At night, I’ll go to the dining hall, order takeout, or go out to a restaurant if it’s the weekend.</p>
<p>I eat at home (since I am a commuter student anyways), but I do bring lunch with me on certain days (which usually consists of bread and candy bars).</p>
<p>The campus food is overpriced and everyone knows. Hence, I haven’t eaten on campus since orientation.</p>
<p>i eat 4-7x a day depending on how hungry I am (I also weightlift… so get hungry quite often). Always staying healthy, I eat on campus for around 60% of meals, otherwise I go out or I have some snacks in my room.</p>
<p>I’m very lucky to have a full kitchen just a door down from my room, so I try to make all kinds of things. I have yet to have a pre packaged microwaved meal.</p>
<p>I eat a lot of lentil soup ( a bag of dry lentils is pretty cheap), oatmeal, stove top popcorn (much cheaper to buy the kernels and pop them yourself than buy the microwave kind, you get a lot of popcorn), scrambled eggs, cereal, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, almonds/granola bars for snacking, fruit snatched from the dining halls, etc.</p>
<p>I also have the cheapest meal plan my school offers, so 7 meals a week. I really don’t think it’s necessary, but I have to have one according to housing.</p>
<p>What I really liked doing last semester and will repeat, is I bought a bag of chicken breasts and cooked up enough to make chicken tacos for a few days. Just cook the meat, shred it, add salsa (my preference is Pace) and spices, cook it till the salsa liquid absorbs/evaporates than assemble the tacos. I used flour tortillas and baked them in an oven till the edges are crispy. </p>
<p>I really try to avoid processed convenience foods, I just don’t feel good after eating them.</p>
<p>Five servings of fruit, four of veggies, lean protein, and two glasses of milk a day. Oh, and a lot of tea. I live off campus and I cook for myself. Yeah, you have to go out and buy groceries, but it’s not like I make five-course meals or spend all my time cooking. On a day, MAX, I spend 10 minutes making food and most of that is either throwing stuff into the oven, steamer, or blender, and the rest is washing dishes. I can’t even imagine living off of boxed, pre-made food and still have enough energy to do anything useful afterwards, yuck!</p>
<p>My College more or less forces freshmen to get the full meal plan so I more or less always eat in the dining hall, about 15-18 of the 20 meals served. If I have to get up before 10 I need breakfast, if I get up later I usually end up skipping it. the food at my school is okay, the quality is good and there is some variety, but of course after a few months it repeats itself and gets boring.
I normally eat a lot of rice, salad and veggies, bagels, soup and pasta about once or twice a week. I try to get more variety into what I eat but mostly I eat because I’m hungry or I know I won’t make it through the day otherwise. Not because I actually want to eat.</p>
<p>Three times a day, except on weekends when it’s twice because I don’t wake up early enough to justify breakfast. For breakfast I usually have cinnamon toast or hard-boiled eggs. Lunch is usually a sandwich of some sort. For dinner I either go out or cook, and I usually cook pasta or cocowheat or something. I have a kitchen so I do a pretty fair amount of cooking, I just don’t know how to cook that many things.</p>
<p>Living off campus can be a great positive and negative, but I’ve learned to shop smart when I go grocery shopping. Think of meals that will last you more than a day like - any type of pasta made in bulk, chicken with rice or any type of carb, and eggs (pretty well rounded in what you can make).</p>
<p>Are there any freshman who live in a dorm and don’t have a meal plan?
I’m a high school senior right now, and I don’t see myself eating out that much. I usually have cereal for breakfast, a sandwich or ramen for lunch, and then my parents’ dinner. </p>
<p>Based on this, would it be difficult for me to prepare this in a dorm? I would probably get 7 meals a week, or whatever the minimum is.</p>
<p>Also, since all of your friends most likely have differing schedules, how often do you find yourself eating with people you know vs. random people? (in-state, public univ)</p>
<p>I only ate at my college for a year. Then I moved off campus and haven’t eaten on campus once. Its overpriced, not that tasty, and I have very few choices being a vegan. I prefer cooking in my apartment by far, but I also love to cook so. ;D</p>
<p>I rarely ate by myself my freshmen year, only when I had a class that ended late. Otherwise there was at least one or two people who wanted to eat lunch the same time as me, and a ton of us would go to eat dinner around 5, since most of us were done with class at that time.</p>
<p>When I’m in college, I would probably get a meal plan all 4 years. I would probably get cereal with bacon/eggs for breakfast, a sub sandwich for lunch, and who knows for dinner.</p>
<p>I go to college in Manhattan and don’t have a meal plan. It’s awesome. I’ve been using the (significant) money I save on tuition going to a city school to eat at the best restaurants in the world. I’m pretty sure I’m the only college student in the country to eat lunch at Michelin starred restaurants and make sandwiches out of Jamon Iberco.</p>
<p>Cereal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner when I have no money. Sometimes cough up the money to eat at the on campus cafeteria for some cooked food. Usually make my own rushed dinner consisting of pasta or tuna fish sandwich or soup. Try to eat some veggies everyday.</p>
<p>At Williams College, freshmen are required to be on the 21-meal plan.</p>
<p>Hence,</p>
<p>Breakfast:
-1 bowl of cherrios cereal with fat free milk
-1 bowl of cereal of my choice (usually lucky charms) with fat free milk
-1 bowl of instant maple/brown sugar oatmeal
-1 cup of orange juice</p>
<p>Lunch:
-Deli, with turkey sandwich on wheat bread
-Cookie
-Drink (usually a diet soda)
-1 Fruit
-1 Vegetable side dish</p>
<p>Dinner:
-Almost always chicken or pasta, I usually have 2 bowls of each
-1 bowl of vegetables
-1 bowl of fruits
-2 drinks (1 powerade for B-vitamins, 1 other drink of my choosing)
-Whatever dessert they have</p>
<p>Throughout the day
-Granola Bars
-Fruit snacks
-Dried fruit
-Water</p>
<p>Typically I consume ~3,000-3,500 calories by my estimate. My aim to start out all days is to eat enough breakfast so that my stomach bloats out. That helps to keep my balance, and I’ve followed this semi-schedule for about 3-4 years. (before college and during college).</p>
<p>I very rarely eat prepared junk or other “un-whole” foods. I sometimes lose perspective on how healthy I actually eat, until I see what others in my age-bracket sustain themselves with :P</p>
<p>I’m lucky enough to have a food co-op within close walking distance, and I get almost all my food from there. I’m mostly vegetarian, so I save lots of money by not buying meat. I can bring home a week’s supply of fresh fruits, vegetables, lentils, and other good-for-you crap like that for under $30. I do spend a lot of money beyond that drinking kombucha and premium coffee, but I don’t worry about it. I’d rather be in a bit of debt than unhealthy. I’m also stressed with schoolwork and research a lot, so I figure I need to offset that with extra-healthy eating.</p>