<p>I'm having a meal plan and will for sure eat lunch and dinner with that or out to eat for those meals. Breakfast I might eat in the cafeteria, depending on how hungry I actually am that early in the morning and if I have time. Some days I plan on just eating breakfast in my room. </p>
<p>What do I really need to have for dorm food then- just some breakfast stuff and snack foods at night???</p>
<p>This is my grocery shopping list so far to start out the year: Ice Mountain water bottles, some pop, orange juice, apple juice, milk, sandwich stuff, breakfast foods (cereal, muffins, pop tarts), chips, candy, some frozen foods (not sure what I'll get yet), and some other snack foods (crackers and stuff). It doesn't sound like much stuff, but the mini fridge is small so..and I'll have the meal plan.</p>
<p>That sounds pretty good. I wouldn’t have too much sandwich stuff, because you’ll be eating in the cafeteria a lot. Box dinners are helpful to have if you have to stay in your dorm (sick, have a paper due), so get a big box of Easy Mac or something similar.</p>
<p>Does your dorm have a convenience store or anything near it? Mine had a little store right downstairs, so I’d often go down there and grab something if I wanted. Don’t worry too much about keeping a lot of food in the dorm - I’d get less food to start off with and get more later, rather then getting a bunch and then not eating it for whatever reason. To me it sounds like kind of a lot of food, but I didn’t like keeping a lot of food in my room.</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t want to have too much because then I just don’t eat it and it will get thrown away. That’s what happened at piano camp every summer. My mom would send me with enough food for AT LEAST a month, if not more, and camp was for a week, in a dorm with a mini fridge.</p>
<p>I’d recommend lean cuisines or the like. They taste pretty good, and they’re healthy. If you keep a ton of food in your room, and you let people know about it, they’ll probably stop by your room for snacks. That’s what happened to me, anyway. I’d also think about getting a brita and a reusable water bottle, it’s cheaper than buying bottled water all the time.</p>
<p>I’ll look into that, as far as box dinners/lean cuisines type of things. Thanks, but I personally prefer the bottled water because what if the water I could fill up the reusable bottle with tastes weird? I’ve run into that where I didn’t like it.</p>
<p>You’ve got a pretty good list of stuff. Its good to have stuff like Milke and cereal on those days you don’t wanna go out for breakfast. Beyond that have some of your favorite snacks and a few frozen dinners if you’re going to have a microwave.</p>
<p>While people are on the subject does anyone know a good place to find a Britta water bottle? Any good online sites? And if someone could explain how they’d work i’d appreciate it</p>
<p>There’s only one way to find out… I assure you that tap water will not poison you. The brita cleans the water, so it will taste different after.</p>
<p>I would advise against bottled water. That gets really expensive and really wasteful and terrible for the environment especially when used frequently. You can buy a Britta pitcher or the new contraption where it filters the water into four reusable bottles. </p>
<p>And I was at Target last weekend to buy some school stuff and I got a reusable aluminum (?) bottle. The only thing with that is it’s good to soak it overnight in an equal solution of vinegar and water to get rid of that metallic taste that your drink gets if it sits too long. They also had a plastic reusable bottle that came with its own filter that’s good for several dozen full bottles and each change of filter is only $2. </p>
<p>I’m bringing a case of Ramen noodles. The chicken flavored kind is actually really good. My favorite. And I’m bringing those chocolate chip Chewy bars, Cheerios, my favorite flavors of V8 Fusion Light (because most places only have the regular kind and it’s too sweet and doesn’t taste as good).</p>
<p>I wouldn’t take anything like milk or bread that would go bad/moldy if unused for awhile. That’s just me though - if you plan on eating breakfast in your room every day maybe it’d work.</p>
<p>I’m probably going to be keeping a water filter thing, a few of those microwavable Asian noodle bowls, an assortment of my favorite teas (with honey sticks), a box (or two) of rice protein bars, a bag of chex mix, a small box of dark chocolate, and an emergency stash of Pixy Stix.</p>
<p>I mainly ate breakfast in my cafeteria, partly influence by a once 7:30 am job shift I had at the time. I was always at awe to be first in cafeteria. Also was always told breakfast was one of the most important meals to start the day.</p>
<p>Of course days I would wake up late past 6:30 and grab a breakfast bar.</p>