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Healthy Meal Hall Hacks for When Salad Bar Becomes Unbearable
First year at Meal Hall on a 17-meal-per-week plan can seem daunting when you're trying to maintain a healthy diet. I found that shovelling spinach, cucumbers, tuna and balsamic vinegar onto a ceramic plate is not was satisfying as I wanted it to be. From my years of experience, I have created some fail-proof healthy meal hall hacks.
It can be tempting to give up on meal hall all together and hit up Tall and Small whenever lunch time rolls around. Unfortunately, the classic Turkey Pesto isn’t great for you bank account.
DIY Turkey Pesto Wrap
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Total Time: 5 mins
- Servings: 1
Ingredients
- Whole wheat tortilla
- Hummus
- Pesto
- Turkey slices or chunks
- Tomato slices
- Lettuce and/or spinach
- Cucumber
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#SpoonTip: toss some goat cheese in there from the make your own pizza station (ask nicely) and you’ll be on a one-way trip to flavour town.
My Kitchen Smoothie
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 10 mins
- Servings: 1
Ingredients
- Banana
- Spinach
- Frozen fruits in the My Kitchen freezer
- WOWBUTTER in the cabinet on the left the fridge
- Yogurt My Kitchen fridge/dessert section
- Granola
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#SpoonTip: style points if you find additional toppings like sliced banana.
Chicken Burrito
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 2 mins
- Total Time: 7 mins
- Servings: 1
Ingredients
- Whole wheat tortilla
- Chicken from salad bar
- Spinach
- Tomato
- Green pepper
- Rice from the entrée area
- Guacamole 4/5 times there is premade guac in the My Kitchen fridge say a little prayer and go check
- Optional Salad Bar Items; beans salsa grilled veggies and red onion
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Grilled WOWBUTTER and Banana Sandwhich
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 2 mins
- Total Time: 7 mins
- Servings: 1
Ingredients
- Whole wheat bread
- WOWBUTTER My Kitchen cabinets
- Banana if there aren’t any good ones in the fruit section hit up the smoothie area in My Kitchen
- Optional; apple slices honey a dash cinnamon sugar
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#SoupGoals
- Prep Time: 2 mins
- Total Time: 2 mins
- Servings: 1
Ingredients
- Your soup choice Spiced Sweet Potato is my go-to
- Rice
- Cooked veggies from the entrée area
- Beans
- Chicken or tofu
- Spinach
- Broccoli
- Mushrooms
- Shredded carrots
- Siracha
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Microwave Apple Crumble
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 5 mins
- Total Time: 10 mins
- Servings: 1
Ingredients
- Apple
- Cinnamon sugar
- Granola
- Yogurt or ice cream
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Everyone is prone to head to the meal hall poutine or burger bar. As long as you're keeping it balanced with a blend of salads and other healthy mains then there's no need to stress about the occasional piece (or pieces) of cake. Hopefully these recipes can help you switch up the healthy options.