Growing up my mom and dad always prepared healthy home cooked meals; marinated chicken, homemade macaroni, applesauce and fresh green beans making sure to cover each food group.
But when I journeyed off to college the significance of the food groups was not top on my priority list. I mean let’s be honest, not every teenager knows how to cook lasagna let alone a four course meal. We are in college. We have little money. We have little time. We college students rely solely on what is microwavable, instant and most of all affordable. Things like “Just Add Water” and “Instant” excite us.
While these are easy ways to keep ourselves fed it is not really practical. One of my biggest fears was gaining the “freshman 15,” the notorious weight gain experienced by new college students.
So ultimately I want to prepare my meals faster, purchase groceries at cheaper prices, and eat healthier meals. Some may find the thought of attempting to eat healthier to be an act performed by the rare college student and no one would participate in the idea. In the collegiate culinary world, the diet of the average college student consists solely of Top Ramen, coffee and fast food but some students like me don’t want to be another statistic.
This sounds like a clever tactic, find inexpensive ways to keep off the extra pounds, but am I really going to have the motivation to cook healthy whole hearted meals? Waiting over 30 minutes for chicken to bake, when I could just pop bagel bites in the toaster oven? Probably not. But I am going to give it my best effort. I am going to look for other options rather than using the foreign appliance in my kitchen, the stove because when you live in a dorm you are limited.
So this is my attempt to create a place where college students can come discover new recipes, share their experiences, both good and bad because when it comes to cooking like mom it usually results in disaster. This is a chance for a college student like me, not to sugar coat the truth behind the world in which we stay nourished. What happens when we leave home and there is no one to cook for us?
That was a swell article.
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