05-11-2009, 05:31
I am also a college student (2nd year) However I took myself off of mealplan because I gained somewhere around 5-7 lbs last year, which doesn't sound like a lot but overtime I am sure it would only get higher. I took myself off of meal plan and I make all my meals. Btw I have lost the 5-7 lbs plus additional pounds when I started cooking my own meals and doing regular exercise.
Do you have a fridge? If you do I would suggest just getting some milk and having cereal before school starts (you don't even need a bowl you can just pour it in a cup and drink it), if you don't have a fridge make sure the snacks you buy are like bananas. You can eat a banana on the way to class. You can also buy a bunch of oranges, apples (which don't rot as quickly as other fruits). Buy organic if you can afford to, but if you can't I think there is a list you can look up of the fruits that little to no pesticides are used to grow. I think peaches are one of them. But yea also you can buy carrots and just eat them when you want to snack, etc. I cook all my meals and try not to use the microwave that much, but the time I spend cooking/cleaning is the same time I spent in the cafeteria eating and talking to friends so I don't think of it as a big time commitment. Also you should consult your school's nutritionist if you have one. I am a vegetarian so I didn't really have a choice in rejecting my school's meal plan they don't really cater to veggies as much as they could. Plus I make my meals 1000x more healthy (no butter on my broccoli
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Do you have a fridge? If you do I would suggest just getting some milk and having cereal before school starts (you don't even need a bowl you can just pour it in a cup and drink it), if you don't have a fridge make sure the snacks you buy are like bananas. You can eat a banana on the way to class. You can also buy a bunch of oranges, apples (which don't rot as quickly as other fruits). Buy organic if you can afford to, but if you can't I think there is a list you can look up of the fruits that little to no pesticides are used to grow. I think peaches are one of them. But yea also you can buy carrots and just eat them when you want to snack, etc. I cook all my meals and try not to use the microwave that much, but the time I spend cooking/cleaning is the same time I spent in the cafeteria eating and talking to friends so I don't think of it as a big time commitment. Also you should consult your school's nutritionist if you have one. I am a vegetarian so I didn't really have a choice in rejecting my school's meal plan they don't really cater to veggies as much as they could. Plus I make my meals 1000x more healthy (no butter on my broccoli
)