I am supremely confident that the majority of freshmen do not live on 1700 cals a day. And the majority will also have far fewer financial resources than yourself.
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True, but they also don’t tend to care about food quality
Basically it’s a trade off of using the meal block for salad or something like pizza, burgers, bowls, pasta and such
Are their hormone profiles and other health markers better than yours?
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I don’t know anything about college meal plans but I am willing to bet it includes balanced meals.
Guaranteed recipe for failure.
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I plan on budgeting $350-400 next starting next semester- more than enough
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Okay, I must have missed something in the log. What does it mean that you are on a meal plan? You have an allowance? You have a pre-defined set of foods available to you through uni but you pay for them? I don’t understand the system.
And, I reckon it’s not like they have a secret food police. Go. Buy. Groceries.
Do that now already. Break the rules if you have to.
Rice
Potatoes
Beans
Lentils
Chickpeas
Meat (any kind, you don’t have to get lean sorts)
Fish (any kind)
Apples/bananas
Nut butters
can all be had reasonably cheap.
Arguably, spending 50$ on anything else that is food that isn’t bars is probably going to be better for your health. I reckon you can get several big loaves of bread, and use olive oil instead of butter and get some calories in you.
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We have “blocks” to use at campus dining locations and “flex dollars “ to use at the campus convenience store
Do you have genuine dollar bills? Or a monetary token that works nowhere else?
It’s on the school Id card
Okay. Do you have any real money? If you have to pay for something, is that something you can do?
I feel my posts may have gone on silent again. I’ll back out now.
Class just started
I cry.
Instead of having a scoop of protein powder a day, I’d rather you have that same amount of protein come from real food instead.
No worries, life happens. Just please genuinely think about what the (many) posters here are saying. We do have your best interests at heart. Plus, we’d quite like to see that triple bodyweight deadlift.
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You can lead a horse to water…
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4x is the goal- have to hit 3 plates first, max test on Saturday!!!
Let’s see some big numbers
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OMG, there’s nothing healthy in so much mushrooms - they are extremely hard fibres or kilo spinach. Leaf greens have so much oxalic acid and large amounts of them are really harmfull for the kidneys. I don’t know why you don’t eat some “normal food”. I’m pretty sure that there is some cooked meal in your school, just normal cooked meal with real vegetables (not green leaves) root vegetables, meat, fish, rice, potatoes, beans , with sauses and so on. There no need to eat 2 sweet bars if you take this calories from real food (not mushrooms).
The impossibility to eat normal everyday food (without medical indications) is some indication for eating disorder. I’m agree with one of previous post- there’s no use any of us to give you advice, you need special help with your food plan.
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Not going to give advice, due to deaf ears…
But mandatory meal plans, and also “mandatory” meal plans, DO NOT APPLY to people with SERIOUS HEALTH ISSUES. Yes, I am shouting.
You spend money on kickboxing classes (useless btw), but won’t spend money on quality foods? FACEPALM.
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That was in Shanghai. Point taken though