<p>My son was on campus and using a meal plan for two years and off campus for two years. The two years off campus we gave him the amount of the least expensive meal plan. He told me that it was ample and, in fact, it incouraged him to learn “food economics” on his own.</p>
<p>BTW-- at the college he attended, his schedule was such that he could fix lunch at the apartment every day.</p>