Your Advice on Meal Plans!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Davis
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<li><p>Is the $450 reservation fee, that you have to pay for housing, for the whole year? Or do you have to pay more fees for Winter/Spring housing? </p></li>
<li><p>I am very confused about the meal plans. I want to choose the cheapest one, so therefore I am leaning towards Budget Saver 90.
------>>> What does the “90” signify? 90 meals per each term, right?
------>>> So would that be like one meal for each day?
------>>> Also, what is included in these ‘meals’? Is it like an all-you-can-eat kind of thing? Or do they have set meals for you for each day? How does the system work?</p></li>
<li><p>Why are there two options for some? </p></li>
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<p>ex: Gold Plus 100
Budget Saver 90</p>

<p>From here: <a href=“http://www.housing.ucdavis.edu/Halls/New/default.htm[/url]”>http://www.housing.ucdavis.edu/Halls/New/default.htm</a></p>

<li>Any general suggestions/advice?</li>
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<p>5. Do you HAVE to have a meal plan?
---->>> Can’t you just bring food from home, or buy cafeteria food only if you feel like it?</p>

<p>*I am not looking forward to the food because I have heard it is too expensive and not very good. True?</p>

<p>THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP!</p>

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<p>I say Fall quarter get one of the larger meal plans, and your left over meals will roll over into Winter quarter, and you can adjust your meal plan to a smaller one and balance out your meals.</p>

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<li>fooshy</li>
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<p>Well I am trying to save money anywhere I see the chance to, so therefore I don't want to spend too much money on food (lol). It's MUCH cheaper just to get food from a nearby supermarket.</p>

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<p>Well you're required to get meal plan frosh year, so unless you have lots of time to keep shopping every week, I suggest you get one that will ensure that you don't starve.</p>

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<li>fooshy</li>
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<p>Fooshy, can you explain to me how the meals work? Is there a set menu? Or is like a buffet?</p>

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<p>You swipe your self in with 1 swipe, and you can get anything that's out there. What's available differs from night to night, they have a salad bar, and a grill, and all sorts of different stuff. So it's a buffet that changes from night to night.</p>

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<li>fooshy</li>
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You swipe your self in with 1 swipe, and you can get anything that's out there.

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<p>So what does the ninety in the Budget Saver 90 mean? That you can swipe you card 90 times within one quarter? Regardless of the cost of the food? So it is just one swipe and you can have anything you want?</p>

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<p>here is the DC menu</p>

<p><a href="http://www.sodexho.ucdavis.edu/menus.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.sodexho.ucdavis.edu/menus.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thank you mr18359 for the link.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it's like an all you can eat buffet. Good for hungry people, bad for freshmen 15.</p>

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<p>
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bad for freshmen 15.

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<p>Huh? What are "freshmen 15"?</p>

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<p>Freshman 15 is the average weight gain for incoming freshman</p>

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<p>Thank you MrSpam for that clarification.</p>

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<p>so what i learned is that any swipes you have left over each quarter turns into aggie cash which can be used ....where?</p>

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<p>I went home last weekend and visited the doctor's for a check up....I apparently had the freshmen 20's -________- <===will be lost over the summer hopefully</p>

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<p>aggie cash can be used at the junction or trudy's which are convenience stores located in both the segundo and tercero areas. It can also be used at the silo at taco bell, carls jr, etc.</p>

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<li><p>Is pizza available ALL of the time?</p></li>
<li><p>Is it even any good?</p></li>
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<p>1) Yes
2) What do you think I would say after Ive had it for the past 7 months for lunch and dinner....</p>

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<p>I can breathe, eat, and sleep pizza. Therefore, I do not care if I have it for breakfast, lunch, AND dinner for years and years to come. It's just a food that I never get tired of.</p>

<p>So, let's pretend that I am just eating it for the first time...what should I expect? Pizza that totally tastes home-made? Or pizza that could pass off as an item you bought at let's say, Pizza Hut?</p>

<p>As you can tell, I LOVE pizza, so this issue is very important for me...lol.</p>

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<p>What my roommate says about pizza "I never eat that crap."</p>

<p>Well, my impressions of it are: There is almost 100% chance that you will have your slice of pizza burned somewhere. They use the same cheese in the pizza as they do for the omelets (sp?) for breakfast. The meat tastes funky sometimes. I sometimes joke that they are feeding us dog meat. The sauce tastes like ketchup, no joke.</p>

<p>Basically, sodexho is a company and they need to make a profit. They do this by 1) underpaying their employees (big issue on currently on campus. ask anyone else on the forums). 2) using really cheap ingredients.</p>