<p>I'm jus wonderin for those who'll be livin in dorms or who have lived in dorms, are you packing a lot of food with you when you go to your dorm from home? </p>
<p>Cause I know I am partly to not have to spend money on the food at school, which is more expensive and such. </p>
<p>Do people do this? And all the food i'm takin is in some sort of box or containers so it's nothin that can be spoiled after a while.</p>
<p>You do realize that there will be grocery stores close to your university don't you?</p>
<p>so what? Like I said, to spend less money while you're there. </p>
<p>and i won't be takin my car cause there's not much use for it at the moment to the college i'm goin to</p>
<p>I brought some, mostly because the dining hall food got to be really awful after the first month or two and I don't like eating out a lot. I didn't bring a lot of food, because our fridge was small and the freezer part didn't actually keep things frozen, and I just had a standard room with no kitchen or anything so it's not like I could routinely cook. We also had a sort of on-campus convenience store that we could use meal plan dollars on that had frozen dinners and whatnot that I made frequent use of.</p>
<p>If you're worried about 'saving money' by buying a bunch of stuff from a grocery store at home instead of buying it from a grocery store near the school, it's not going to make a lot of difference, though.</p>
<p>Not really.... The only store worth schlepping from is a wholesale store like Costco or BJ's with those cans of soup, big bags of chips, etc.</p>
<p>I thought you meant homemade stuff that your mother made.... since my mother tends to bring in leftovers when she visits :) I'm a happy camper for a week!</p>
<p>I buy stuff at walmart b/c the evil empire is really cheap!</p>
<p>I do know people that are so cheap they will go for weeks without food and then when their parents come to visit, make the parents go buy them food so the kids arents spending their own money.</p>
<p>Some people bring a lot of snack food and stuff for when the dining hall food gets old.</p>
<p>I don't plan on having much food in my dorm. The cafeteria and on-campus places (they take declining balance dollars) should be fine with me since I always ate school food throughout K-12...and they pretty much used the same schedule/menu all those years. </p>
<p>I'll probably just have water and juice in my fridge...and will just go buy a TV dinner at Walmart if I'm not feeling the cafeteria/on-campus food at the time. I'm avoiding the freshman 15 like the plague.</p>
<p>Besides, I don't want ants and roaches in my room.</p>
<p>I only receive 7 meals per week, so I plan on bringing at least a bunch of cereal boxes and my collection of loose-leaf tea. That'll cover breakfast, and I'll just eat cheap fruits and lunch meat for my other meal.</p>
<p>Only 7? </p>
<p>Shoot...the standard plan at my school has 15 meals per week and around $155 declining balance to use on other on-campus food places. I didn't realize other schools had so little included on their meal plans.</p>
<p>Well... I'm flying in a week early and even when I move in, it'll be a few days before the fridge comes in because I move in for a pre-orientation before my rooomate. So no food from home.</p>
<p>However, my mom is infamous for her care packages and my entire extended family lives around me, so I'm sure I'll get random drop offs of food that I will never eat from time to time.</p>
<p>I went to a warehouse store (e.g. Sam's, BJ's, Costco) and stocked up on goodies that I commonly ate, such as applesauce and granola bars. I think it is useful to have a large stock of certain things you like to eat as 'comfort' food and it's cheaper to buy stuff at warehouse stroes in bulk. Still, 6-years later, I still go to the local warehouse store to stock up when I'm home on certain things (though this will change this year since I'm moving too far away).</p>
<p>yea, that's what i mean, just snacks like those Little Debbie Cakes they make, pudding, applesauce, pringles, just small stuff like that.</p>
<p>Go right ahead with those- they'll still be good in April :)</p>
<p>I'm not bringing a lot of food, but I'll definitely be bringing/buying some instant oatmeal, granola bars, canned soup, etc. Mostly stuff that I can make in the dorm room if I need a snack while studying.</p>
<p>I'll probably take advantage of my parents' costco card to stock up on diet coke, single-serving microwavable soups, and cereal. Things that are cheaper in bulk and have a long shelf-life.</p>