<p>How do you deal with it?Meal plan in your college?How is it?</p>
<p>I got an unlimited meal plan for to make sure I will never have to hungry and worry about getting money to buy food. </p>
<p>So far the food is good(especially this calzone that they make) but Im hoping the quality does not drop drastically once orientations are over and all the parents go home.</p>
<p>what do you mean by unlimited meal plan?You can have certain meals(maybe 50 or something)and you can eat unlimitedly per meal?</p>
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Im hoping the quality does not drop drastically once orientations are over and all the parents go home.
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wow......you raised a good question.Maybe some former students know the answer.</p>
<p>Meal plans are to please parents.......that is why some are mandatory for Frosh. Nobody eats college cafeteria food unless they have no other options. At the school I attended there were multitudes of options. Who knows what school this question is about. I know many kids who bought the required and never set foot in the dining halls.</p>
<p>He probably means that he can eat an unlimited number of meals per day/per week/per semester/per forever.</p>
<p>I have unlimited visits to the cafeteria. As to the amount you can eat, it doesnt matter. Once you get in(with one of your visits or paying) you can eat as much as you want. I usually just keep it small and eat a small dish of pasta with whatever they throw on top of it.</p>
<p>As to the quality of the food, someone was saying that it goes down after the parents and the alums go away. I was just wondering if it was both of my dining halls or the other one on the other side of campus, which is what im hoping happens.</p>
<p>^^^
My school has the same plan. You can go in whenever you feel like it and eat as much as you want.</p>
<p>It seems at most schools the quality of the food wavers. Sometimes it will be really good while other times it will taste like ****. I think it all really depends on the day, what your tastes are, and what they are serving.</p>
<p>Just make sure you don't gain the Freshmen 15 or 40 in some peoples cases.</p>
<p>Im basically eating less the what I ate before(appetite is down for some reason) and still walk around when I can.</p>
<p>If I do gain weight it shouldnt be much. I should probably hit the gym though, one day..............</p>
<p>My school's (Temple University) is okay. I have 10 meals a week with the "late night snack" option. Plus $150 in school money I can use whenever/wherever I want. </p>
<p>We also have "real" fast food places that accept meal plan money and food trucks that also accept the aforementioned $150. </p>
<p>The food isn't the best for me, but I exercise plenty.</p>
<p>At my school it is required for Freshman to have a 19 meals per week meal plan, but you have the option of getting 4 meals per day, so it's out of 28 meals. We get back $3.01 per meal we miss in "meal money" (we start out with $150) but there are a lot of options besides the cafeteria to use our meals at. Tons, actually. So I guess it just depends on the school. I don't move in for a couple more days, but the few meals I've had there I happened to have in the cafeteria and they were very satisfactory with a lot of healthy options. I would look around your school and just find what works best for you (as that varies from school to school.)</p>
<p>I'm actually looking forward to cafeteria food. I know, I know, crazy. But I'm thinking it'll be EASIER to stay in shape with prepared meals. At home, my parents never cook and I'm too lazy to make anything healthy (even sandwiches require too much effort). I literally live off of cocoa puffs and microwavable pizzas. In fact, I'm eating California Pizza Kitchen right now for lunch. Anything is an uprgrade!</p>
<p>hahahahaha, exact opposite at my house umcp. my mom cooks every meal, breakfast, lunch and dinner. and she's a personal trainer, so she everything she cooks is overwhelmingly healthy. I definitely gained the freshman fifteen when i went to school (not because I ate more-the food was absolutely disgusting) because I was just eating food with more fat content and more snacks. We never had Pringles or Coke or candy in the house growing up, so basically that's all I eat at school.</p>
<p>Poster Jebus Christ brings up an interesting point about dorm food quality and parents. On freshman move-in day (he’s going back this fall as a senior), my nephew was given a new student packet that contained two parent meal tickets to the dorm cafeteria. I don’t remember what was served that day, but the food was fine. It wasn’t gourmet dining, but it was far from vile.</p>
<p>A few weeks later, I spoke to him on the phone and I asked him how the food was. “Remember the meal we had when I moved in? It was a trick!” Apparently, regular dorm food was like the stuff they served in high school. Mostly starches and “mystery” protein, he had a particular disdain for tater tots. Whenever we speak on the phone, I’ll say “mmm, taters tots (and then make lip-smacking sounds)”. I think that’s funny, but, for some reason, he no longer sees any humor in it…</p>
<p>Just to be adventurous, check out the local restaurants around campus.</p>
<p>good thing with my plan is I also get 150 to spend at the various places around campus. So if I ever get tired of the dining halls, theres always other options. </p>
<p>Im going to take more advantage of this when they finally open the chilis</p>
<p>Wow, sucks for you all. Here at Virginia Tech we can get fresh lobster, handmade sandwiches, fresh pizzas (by the slice or whole), pasta, etc. etc.</p>
<p>VT has arguably the best campus food in the country</p>
<p>USNews put us at #1 again I think. We were #1 for a while, then slipped to #3.</p>
<p>The problem isn't quality, so much as repetition. Dining services typically uses a set rotation of food, making it predictable and well... it gets boring over time. The food may taste fine to a guest, but to someone who's been there for six months ... not so much.</p>
<p>meh so far ive been happy with the choices. But I can see where tlaktan is coming from. I can already pretty much predict what will be in my dining hall and its only been three days.</p>
<p>College food is good at my university but its also horrible for you. Its mainly pizza and burgers.. all that junk. The salad bar is closed half the time. I feel like crap everytime I eat because then I know I need to burn it all off soon.</p>