college nutrition.

eating healthy is not an easy task. which is why I don't.

it's a good thing I have the job that I do, otherwise "freshman 15" would be a huge understatement.

let me tell you a little something about the "T-Bird Circle", aka the dining hall.

here are my choices for lunch and dinner:

noodles with white sauce

noodles with red sauce

hamburger

fries and/or onion rings

mashed potatoes (sometimes)

gravy

vegetable of some sort

mystery meat

rice

"sandwich station"

salad bar (which doesn't apply to me, on account of: I hate salad. I always have and I always will.)

EVERY DAY.

I'm not even lying. 

it gets old.

breakfast is better. it's the same thing every day, but I love breakfast, so it's okay.

that rhymed.

also, they have soft serve ice cream. but every time I eat it, I freeze to death. okay, I could never actually die from that, but I get really cold. and I hate being cold.

oh. here's another thing about the wonderful dining hall:

they don't wash their dishes.

very well.

I'm convinced they put everything on a conveyer belt and run it through a miniature car wash.

I cannot even tell you how many times I have picked up a spoon/fork/knife and had to put it back because there is a piece of old lettuce stuck to it.

gross.

I'm going to write a strongly worded letter and put it in the "suggestion box". I tried to recruit my friend Alexis to help me write a bunch of notes in different handwriting so that it looks like more people are complaining about this, but apparently that's not her idea of a fun activity. :)

I actually prefer to eat in my dorm room.

I am blessed to have a microfridge.

micro because it's miniature.

micro because there is a microwave on top.

:)

in my room, I have the following food items:

-half a box of ramen noodles. a staple for the starving student.

-6 packs of instant oatmeal. fruit and cream. yum.

-Apple Jacks. not really though. the Great Value knock-off. they're just as good, and I'm poor.

-"honey spins" aka honey nut cheerios.

-"whole wheat grain cereal"... equivalent to plain cheerios. which are disgusting. which is why I also have...

-a tupperware full of sugar.

-pop tarts

-chocolate/peanut butter granola bars

-stale potato chips that expired on sep26. I'm terrified of expired food.

-vanilla cream cookies

-oatmeal cream pies. I'm obsessed with cream, I think.

-cinnamon graham crackers

-peanut butter m&ms :]

-other various candy. including smarties :]

and in my fridge/freezer...

-2 microwave dinners. I forgot what they are.

-microwavable corn

-........Ben & Jerry's Cake Batter ice cream. I'm addicted.

-popsicles. the kind with 2 sticks :)

-a bagel

-not enough strawberry cream cheese for that bagel

-cream cheese frosting... holy crap, again with the cream...

-my mother's homemade raspberry jam, which I eat with a spoon. ask my roommate. it's like candy.

-my mother's homemade salsa 

-teensy tortillas and shredded cheese for quesadillas 

-water bottles. some with "orange early rise" drink mix.

-string cheese

-an old orange that I stole from the dining hall...

I'm going to die from malnutrition. Okay, I probably won't die. maybe be hospitalized...

bye.