<p>Will we receive information for meal plans when we get our dorm assignments or when?</p>
<p>You may not receive any information in writing prior to arriving on campus. You are automatically placed on the Flex 14 plan (a.k.a. Gold Plan). This plan gives you 14 meals a week at North or South and 310 flex points that replenish at the beginning of each semester.</p>
<p>If you choose, you can be changed to the 21 meals a week plan. This plan does not include flex points.</p>
<p>Check out more information here.</p>
<p>thank you irish that was very helpful</p>
<p>Unless you ALWAYS eat 3 big meals every day, you'll want the Flex 14 plan. I always end up using up all my flex points, but still usually have dining hall meals left at the end of the week.</p>
<p>In my two years, I have NEVER - not once, not one single time - used up all my meals for the week on the Flex 14 plan. Keep that in mind, I guess.</p>
<p>I guess I should elaborate. It's not that I just miss meals (which happens occasionally), but more that LaFortune is always a viable option for lunch or dinner, there are a bunch of little cafes and such littered around campus, most fast food places near campus deliver and are relatively cheap, and I often found myself eating at least one meal of campus each weekend, be it dinner with friends for a birthday or Taco Bell for lunch after hitting Meijer for supplies. No one I know who has the 21 meal plan is truly satisfied with it, and they always have tons of meals left over.</p>
<p>As freshman, can one not choose either plan, and just eat at restaurants scattered around/cook for oneself?
These meal plans are fairly expensive right?</p>
<p>A meal plan (one of the two) is required. Friends I have at ND suggest getting “to go” meals to use up the meals if you find out you are not eating all of your meals each week. They say this is good if you don’t have time to sit down for a meal, but saves paying for or using your flex points at the restaurants on campus. Wish they would cut back to 10-12 meals a week with more flex points. At least the food is supposed to be really good!</p>
<p>Also, it would be tough to cook for yourself all the time in the dorms. There are kitchens in all of them, but cookware tends to disappear from them, so they often aren’t as well-stocked as you might hope. And, getting off campus as a freshman without a car can be tricky. Besides, everyone else eats at the dining hall, so you wouldn’t want to be excluded from that social experience. And the food is pretty good. You’ll start getting sick of it after 4 years, but there are a lot of options. And, after being away for a year, I definitely miss it now…</p>
<p>It’s still better than what I would cook for myself everyday! It’s not like we’re gourmet cooks, plus the shopping, cooking, and clean up take a lot of time.</p>