The College Experience ~ "Balanced Diet" Means Half Are Beef Flavor And Half Are Chicken

[bloodyrosemccoy]

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Now that I’ve started sporadically cooking in an attempt to eat more healthily, this is what my diet looks like:

 

Breakfast: Girl Scout cookies and milk

Lunch: Peanut butter sandwich, Girl Scout cookies, and water

Snack: Handful of Just Veggies, Girl Scout cookies, and milk

Dinner: Delicious meal, perhaps stir fry chicken and vegetables on rice or pork and sugar snap peas on noodles with stir fry sauce,* and a gigantic can of Arizona Iced Tea With Raspberry Flavor.

Midnight Snack: Girl Scout cookies

 

Believe it or not, it’s a big improvement over the All Ramen And Pop Tarts Diet I was on before, which truly does wonders for somebody who can only digest refined carbohydrates very incompletely. I may actually be getting some nutrients this way.

 

Or maybe I’ll be dead before I graduate.  But dammit, at least I’ll have had Thin Mints.

 

 

*Hey, I have this big bottle of the stuff, okay?

Comments

[dimethirwen.livejournal.com]

*orgasmic delight*

Ooooh, Girl Scout cookies...

I came across some Girl Scouts selling their wares in the local Giant the other day, and I couldn't fork over the obscene $3.50 fast enough.

*eats Thin Mints and dies of happiness*

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Only $3.50? Damn, I got ripped ... I paid $4.00!

Oh, well. That's why I buy the Thin Mints. You get more volume of cookie that way. Samoas are nice, but there's like 15 of them set in a big space-eating plastic tray thing. I bet they could cram at least ten more in if they took that thing out.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

*giggling even harder*

Oh man.

Samoas are my favorite. But Thin Mints...mmmm. The Classic.

[placetohide.livejournal.com]

No way, those peanut butter girl scout cookies are the best, nngggg.

[dimethirwen.livejournal.com]

No, Thin Mints definitely are the best!

[queenlyzard.livejournal.com]

*cracks up* Oh, honey, I have so been there and done that. I recommend chicken cup-soups, those packets of breakfast cereal that come in a little plastic dish, and (if you have access to a freezer) TV dinners. Oh, and little individual yogurts and fruit cups. Things like this are easy to buy in large quantities when on sale, and then you can eat the same thing for a week. That's kinda what I still do, actually.

What flavor girl scout cookies?

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Thin Mints. Biggest cookie volume fer yer money there, and tasty too!

Thanks for the advice. I have a few tricks, too ~ there's the tortillas (optional: beans and cheese for burritos, which help a bit with my protein issues), Campbell's soups, tuna salad, granola with lots of nuts, and peanut butter celery. Yogurt literally makes me gag (I may like the flavor, but I can't suppress the gagging), but to make up for that I drink an insane amount of milk. And of course, some days, there's ramen. Lots of ramen. ;)

[viizou.livejournal.com]

I like to cook when I have time, but I've been living on cereal and bagels for about a week. With the odd egg-based dish every now and then. But I do make an effort to snack on vegetables and have a salad every day, so my diet might actually not be as bad as it sounds.

Frankly, I don't buy that weird eating habits end with college...

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I try to do better, with some veggies and fruit and granola and nuts, but it does break down to something like my post an awful lot.

Maybe it would be better to say that weird eating habits BEGIN with college. And don't get me started on sleeping habits ...

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Not only do weird eating habits not *end* with college, frequently they don't *start* with college.

Says the woman who discovered sauerkraut sandwiches* back in her early teens.

*Sauerkraut mixed with mayo, on rye, topped with Swiss cheese and then nuked until hot--basically what's left after the family has had reuben sandwiches one night for dinner and eaten all the corned beef but not all of everything else.

[viizou.livejournal.com]

Well, necessity is the mother of invention.

Says the girl who recently had a dinner of popcorn with dill-flavoured topping and rusks with soy sauce, because that's all that was left in the apartment.

[placetohide.livejournal.com]

I have to say... that looks pretty appealing to me, haha. It's a good start compared to Ramen Land, anyway! Just ease out those delicious cookies...

[gondolinchick01.livejournal.com]

I so feel you on the Girl Scout cookies. I spent a good $14 on them the other day and was cursing myself today that I didn't get more Thin Mints. Maybe they're still there today...

[principessar.livejournal.com]

Ooh girlscout cookies -- I'm jealous-- I haven't had any for years. I like the coconut caramel ones -- I can't even remember their names LOL...

Actually, this year I've been eating well -- I cook once a week or so and I make balanced food and I eat it 'til it's gone. It's strange because I'm sort of used to feeling guilty that I don't eat well -- that I eat too much fat, not enough vegetables, but now I actually do eat healthily ... LOL. There's always a salad, some vegetables, some meat, a starch :)

And it's helped my health. My teeth are less sensitive and I've lost weight. I'm totally using this as an arguing point for my mom -- I'm telling her I can't go back to the dorms because I need to cook for myself and if I don't I'll get sick.

I'm trying as much as I can to use good quality ingrediants -- but they are so expensive! Like, I went to the market last week and bought food but spent like 30 euros on bread and some vegetables and some good-quality fresh raviolis --

But, you know, there's such a part of me that wants to be a mom already, LOL. I want to feed people. LOL.