<p>I can offer up Cheerios, Special K, and Cinnamon Puffins. Also oatmeal, English muffins, and eggs. How about I scramble the eggs with cheddar, feta, and basil, and throw in some fresh oregano and rosemary?</p>
<p>No bread today; I didn’t bake yesterday. Today I surely will, however!</p>
<p>Thanks owlice, I knew you would add some real food to the menu. I forgot, we have Special K and Cheerios as well (just in case you run out), but I’ve never heard of Cinnamon Puffins. Your scrambled eggs sound delicious, by the way.</p>
<p>Cinnamon Puffins are da bomb, LIMOMOF2!! Good for breakfast, good for snacking, gluten-free so good for those with celiac, good, good, good!</p>
<p>And hey, cereal IS real food! My S would be thrilled to bits if we had Cocoa Puffs and/or Cap’n Crunch in the house! He offered to eat Cocoa Puffs for dinner last night when we were trying to come up with dinner ideas. (“But we don’t have Cocoa Puffs, S.” “We could get some, Mom.” He eats a lot of Cocoa Puffs at his dad’s, so it’s not as though he’s deprived of them!) We had a big salad instead.</p>
<p>Pass the Cap’n Crunch, please!</p>
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<p>Nephew is finishing up his first year at the 2nd school, UIUC. For him, starting at a small, manageable LAC and then moving to the resources of a large U has been a great way to go and has fit well with his academic needs and personality. I think my sister said he is doing some summer school to accelerate graduation. If I can find out more, I’ll let you know.</p>
<p>He is taking summer courses so he can finish up most of UG next fall and start work on Masters in the spring (I guess they let you do that while finishing UG).</p>
<p>Thanks, bethievt. I have heard that before about those programs. I’m glad it’s working out well for your nephew. D will have to decide if that is something she is interested in, and I guess we’ll work from there. I just have a feeling that D would prefer to stay at one school for the 4 years. Good luck to your nephew.</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads up on Cinnamon Puffins, owlice. I figured they had to be good - that goes for pretty much anything with cinnamon! We always have Cocoa Puffs because I use them to make snacks - like Rice Krispie treats, but with milk chocolate chips melted into the marshmallows. They’re very popular at the school bake sales. Cap’n Crunch found its way into our house because S had Peanut Butter Crunch at his friend’s house and begged for it. I couldn’t find it, but the regular kind was on sale, so I bought it. So far, nobody’s touched it, so your S is welcome to them.</p>
<p>You are just too healthy - a big salad instead of Cocoa Puffs for dinner! Actually, I could go for a nice grilled chicken salad today - maybe that will be our dinner - thanks for the idea.</p>
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<p>Ahhhhhhh, the Cap’n Crunch was for me!!</p>
<p>:: puts out bowls of M&Ms ::</p>
<p>Oops, I misunderstood! Well, I hope you ate it instead.</p>
<p>M&Ms - my favorite! Thanks.</p>
<p>You’re welcome, and thanks for the Cap’n Crunch!</p>
<p>'Fessing up here, a lot of the times that I mention food, it’s because that’s what I’m eating, just ate, or am about to eat… there’s a reason H is known as “Mr. M&M” at the grocery store! :)</p>
<p>Okay, not college related but I’ve been busy coming up with a copy cat recipe of a local Italian restaurant’s orange cake and I did it!!! This is S’ favorite cake and at $6.50 a slice, I was ready to do something about it. Also, he wanted it for his birthday cake, and voila! He just had a taste and could not believe I made it (and that’s why I hardly posted today). </p>
<p>:: Hands a slice to everyone. ::</p>
<p>Oh, and I’ll pass on the cereal. For some strange reason, I don’t eat cereal and neither does S. H eats the Bran ones (ick, sawdust).</p>
<p>Congratulations, mountains! That’s quite an achievement.</p>
<p>I want to suggest Rowan as a possibility for Engineering. They have a unique hands on approach to teaching engineering–practicum all 8 semesters where they work on real world problems with all kinds of engineers, architects, artists. USNWR graded its chem eng #1 I think, and overall #6 or 16 (can’t remember). They strongly encourage internships in the industry. We were VERY impressed. My son is a very strong student and loved it. We were sad to turn it down for a prestigeous research program (Meyerhoff Scholars) here in town. Definitely worth a look…</p>
<p>Thank you, 2blue. Now on to tackle supper.</p>
<p>LIMOMOF2, Sorry I don’t have anything to add to colleges with good engineering. Now, if your D changes her mind and wants to pursue creative writing, I may be able to help.</p>
<p>mountains, will you share the recipe? orange cake sounds amazing!</p>
<p>Here it is:
ORANGE LAYER CAKE</p>
<p>Ingredients:
1 (18.25 oz) package Duncan Hines Moist Orange Cake Mix (may use yellow cake mix)
4 large eggs
1 (3.5 oz) package instant vanilla pudding mix
½ cup canola oil
2 teaspoons orange extract
1 (11 oz) can mandarin orange segments (do not drain)
Orange peel (use peel of one large orange)
Mini white chocolate chips (optional)</p>
<p>Directions:
<p>ORANGE CREAM CHEESE FROSTING</p>
<p>Ingredients:
6 cups powdered sugar
2 packages of 8 oz cream cheese (no need to soften)
4 tablespoons softened butter or butter flavored Crisco
2 teaspoons orange extract
Orange peel of 2 large oranges</p>
<p>Directions:
<p>Sprinkle mini white chocolate chips on top if you wish.</p>
<p>Note: Cake needs to be refrigerated because of frosting.</p>
<p>I started with a recipe I found online and tweaked it to have a more orange-y flavor.</p>
<p>Wow, mountains, that sounds fabulous!</p>
<p>Another note on the 3/2 engineering programs is that, for schools that promote a semester or a year abroad, most students do that in their third year. Obviously, since that’s the FINAL year for students in a 3/2 program before they switch schools, they can’t really take advantage of the programs (although they may be able to do a summer abroad program).</p>
<p>S2 loves orange cake…will have to try this! I used an apricot matzah kugel recipe that I found on the Passover thread (souped up the fruit) and it was fabulous. So much culinary talent around here!</p>
<p>Mountains, thank you for sharing. I’m not a huge cake baker but this is irresistible. S1 has exams all week and this would be a great treat one night after all the studying!</p>
<p>Ha! The advertisement that’s coming up on the left side of this thread is for Iron Chef! I think we’ve had so many food references on this thread that CC has decided to apply some targeted marketing to us! :)</p>
<p>And some orange liqueur to accompany mountains’ orange cake!</p>