You’re in the dining hall for dinner. Your meal is:
Grilled chicken breast with mashed potatoes, cornbread, a cup of carrot-ginger bisque and a side of cauliflower Quinoa with salmon and kale Disappointing Cilantro-lemongrass beef curry with eggplant Spaghetti with marinara Raw vegetables with ranch
And for dessert, you’re having:
None, have you seen my waist?! Yellow cake with chocolate frosting Vegan chia seed pudding with goji berries Zucchini chocolate cake Chocolate that I brought from home Sugar cookie-vanilla soft serve ice cream sandwich and a brownie
What’s your typical weekday breakfast?
Overnight almond milk oatmeal with flaxseeds and sunflower butter Self-made scrambled eggs and an Eggo waffle Cheerios in 2% milk Everything bagel with cream cheese, strawberry jam and bacon One cup Greek yogurt with 1/2 cup granola Hash browns, buttermilk pancakes, sausage links and a mini-muffin
Your grocery list looks something like:
White bread, American cheese, bologna, Lay’s, Easy Mac, Nature Valley bars, Chips Ahoy Enough ready meals and easy-to-use ingredients to keep me out of dining halls as long as possible Goat cheese, prosciutto, arugula, fig jam, pickled peppers, sun-dried tomato pesto, lavender cookies Copious amounts of fruits and vegetables, lean fish, lo-fat hummus and Greek yogurt, bread thins, skim milk, Slim-Fast Kombucha, Maca powder, Dr. Lucy’s oatmeal cookies, nutritional yeast, amaranth, Kefir, coconut flour Gallon of milk; 48oz. box of Honey Bunches of Oats; pints of Ben & Jerry’s Karamel Sutra, Cherry Garcia and Americone Dream; 28oz. peanut butter; two loaves of bread; 3 lbs. frozen vegetables
Which of these are you most likely to say?
No, it’s actually really good! Just try it! What are you eating? Hold on, I need to get more food. I hate dining plans. Ugh that looks so good, I wish I could have some. I think I’m going to try going paleo.
How do you feel about campus food?
There are always plenty of options. There’s a deplorable lack of superfoods. It’s a high-calorie indulgence trap. It makes me consider transferring. Lots of it is pretty boring, but I can usually find something somewhere. I know exactly where I can get what I want.
How would your friends describe you?
Stubborn Trendy Naive Avant-garde Uptight Laid-back
