<p>I’m considering SLO…
but i need to know how good the food is on campus and in the surrounding area…because if the food sucks then i’ll hate it there …LOL =]
so can anyone help me out? I really don’t want to go to the overnight they’re offering or go for a visit but I just need to know how the food is! lol</p>
<p>Well the on campus food generally is not the best. I mean, it’s edible, but definitely not gourmet. If you are a picky eater you will probably not like it very much. However, there are a ton of great off campus places to eat, so if you have a car you’ll probably be ok. Except for the fact that all freshmen living on campus are required to have a meal plan, so you have to buy something, even if it’s just fruit and water.</p>
<p>I will most likely be traveling by bus/bike/walking everywhere…
Are all the good places to eat really far from campus?</p>
<p>I have heard that there are limited food choices and it gets boring for most people. The pizza place is fine and there is a salad bar. My friend attends CP likes the sandwich place. he said he is an engineer, so he can eat the same food over and over and he doesn’t care! My son will likely be the same way. the biggest complaint is the cost! My son will have the smallest food plan and then buy a lot of foods to have in his dorm. Downtown has some good food places, but he will likely be eating on campus most days of the week. This is the one negative I have heard about CP.</p>
<p>The quality of campus food and especially the high cost reinforces the benefits of my son living in Cerro Vista. Although there are good places to eat off campus, the truth is they just don’t have the time to go into town for so many meals. His first quarter he didn’t cook much, but blew through his extra $ quickly. Now he shops at the local grocery store and cooks most of his dinners, and it costs so much less.</p>
<p>hbparents^ Again, your advice is so appreciated! My hope is that my son and his roommates work together to figure out some of the meals. Going to dinner together or cooking. I could see him doing things like your son. Eating a lot on campus in the beginning when he is overwhelmed with new responsibilities and then doing more food prep later on. I just worry that he will not eat and just snack. He will skip meals and just eat something like chips or top ramen and then he will get sick. He will be so focused on studying and of course some socializing, that what he eats will be fast and not very healthy. </p>
<p>Your son learning to cook gives me hope for my son as well. Nothing fancy, but something better than just snacking. If you have any meal suggestions that your son found easy to fix…I’d love to pass them on to my son!</p>
<p>Perhaps it might be better that they figure out how to do things like forage for food all by themselves. 
They’re smart enough to get into Cal Poly. Surely they can handle this. BTW, It seems the students of greatest concern are male in these nutritional threads. Wonder why that is . . .</p>