<p>So where on campus can yu get those good salads??? Looks like my daughter did not find it cuz she put on almost thirty pounds her freshman year at CMU. Now she has to go to the gym daily to lose them!!! Please tell...where is that great salad place?</p>
<p>S. You do know that its "all your fault" because the genes and the foods you taught her to like. How about the T. Heinz Country Farm & Store?</p>
<p>Found the alternative to thetartan.org. Not bad.
<a href="http://www.tcpulse.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.tcpulse.com/</a></p>
<p>Well if you want some delicious, nutritious & cheap salads that are off the meal plan, theres a restaurant called Fuel and (or just "n"? I dont remember) Fuddle right in Oakland, which is just down the street from campus, maybe a 5-10 minute walk. After nine pm... I think... everything is half-price too. Yummy.</p>
<p>The place on campus I was referring to is the International Market in the UC. Like every other place on campus, its very expensive (well, for me anyway-- a meal block is abt $7.50) and they have tons of things I would LIKE to buy (edamame, sushi, sesame seaweed salad... good japanese food) but you cannot buy it on the meal plan. On the meal plan you can get pasta and pizza and stuff, predictably, or soup (mostly just meat though, and usually really oily, cream-based, and gross) and a salad that you can make yourself with a variety of meat and non-meat stuff to mix in.</p>
<p>Still... I think there's no real way around it. The meal plan forces cheap food thats mostly very, very unhealthy. Most of the few healthy options contain meat anyway, so the meal plan will definitely be something I shall avoid like the plague for the rest of college.</p>
<p>I should also mention that gaining 30 lbs on the meal plan freshman yr is not at all unusual. What happens, esp. for girls who generally dont need to eat as much as guys, is that its just too much food at all of the wrong times, with very little flexibility. Couple that with too much time spent stuck inside studying, & it's a health disaster. I'm sure next year, when the plan is not required (and if you do get it, you dont need to buy blocks), especially if she has a kitchen or something where she'll be living, will be much better.</p>
<p>Itstoomuch-- Also, that website is the Pulse that I mentioned which consists of a few students who split off from the Tartan the April before last instead of working with the paper and reconstructing it...which, incidentally, is where some of the Tartan Online staff you were asking about ended up. They do not have a print edition, only update sporadically, and generally, in my humble opinion... well, I have an obvious bias. I personally wouldn't view it as a dependable "alternative" to the Tartan, but as supplementary reading material. If you are going to choose just one website, I suggest you give them both a thorough read-through first.</p>
<p>:P I didnt mean for that to come out sounding so snobby. Ah well. What I meant to say is just read them both and decide for yourself.</p>