By Cooper Stanley
Student Writer
Meal plans can be great. You don’t have to cook; you just swipe your card and eat. As many students can tell you, however; a meal plan isn’t always enough.
Here are some great tips from students who have all had personal experience balancing their meal plan, their budget, and their constant hunger that most students deal with:
Senior Brad Drury of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada has studied all four years as a business administration major and lived in the dorms for three years. His personal favorites were sandwiches made of cold cuts and healthy ingredients.
“Mayo, lettuce, peppers, turkey, and ham deli meats, sandwiched between two slices of bread,” said Dury.
Drury also stated that when buying all the ingredients to make the sandwich it cost him under fifteen dollars; while being able to get at lest five or six sandwiches out of the purchase of all ingredients.
Korina Lillard of Brighton, Colorado, a senior Biology major stated that a cheap and healthy meal she enjoys Quest bars and her own recipe for a sandwich.
“Take a banana, split it in half horizontally, spread some maple almond butter on the banana, and sandwich the banana back together.”
Senior Jason Freeman of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada and business administration major has spent one year in the dorms with a meal plan had a great cheap recipe that leaves him with many meals for leftovers afterwards.
Freeman stated that a quinoa and black bean chicken casserole was a way to buy in bulk and have many meals at a cheap cost. When asked how he cooked all the ingredients Freeman said “Cook the chicken separately in the oven, all five or six breasts that come in a pack, while cooking the black beans and quinoa on the stove top; when all are finished scoop quinoa onto plate, place black beans onto plate and then place chicken breast on top; save the leftovers.”
Freeman also stated that all three ingredients when bought only cost approximately twenty dollars at a minimum of five to six meals worth of food.