My Favorite Things

This post is going to be 100% about food and food's relevance in the life of a college student.  

I want to start off by saying that thinking about food, getting food, and eating food take up about half of  my thoughts throughout the day- and potentially all of my thoughts while I dream at night (it's embarrassing but true).

                  First, I'm going to discuss pursuit of food from the perspective of a student living on campus who will eat (or try) essentially anything. That's me.  Then, I'm going to move down the hill to the off campus houses and apartments where most of Lehigh's seniors live, and discuss how anyone could possibly survive off of the scarce resources available there.

I wake up everyday thinking about the cheesy eggs and toasted bagel I can make in my kitchen without having to put on shoes to avoid the liquid- infused carpet like those in off campus houses.  My lunch is provided for me- thanks to my great friend/ chef Elda- today's menu is mac & cheese and chicken fingers.  The early-bird special for dinner is ready at the absurd hour of 4:30, and it's usually some kind of combination of bread, pasta, chicken, and other carbs.

For those of you who are pulling the "My stomach hurts when I eat sandwiches so I'm never eating gluten ever again" card, we have a selection of options.  You can buy your own gluten- free noodles and cook them right next to Elda (!!!!!!!!), and sometimes she even makes us breadcrumb-free eggplant parm.

...For those like me, though, I'm good with a few (or ten) of these.  @Mkaplan

Now, off campus is a totally different, scary story.  In my eyes, the goal of pretty much anything, whether it's working out, studying, or finishing an assignment is the tasty incentive being waved in front of my eyes.  I fear moving to my apartment next year for the sole reason of not having a meal ready for me when I get back from the gym or library.

My friends have given me hope- they mastered it! Here's a photo of the creation from my friend Rachel's kitchen off campus.  Hopefully by next year I'll have half the culinary skills that she has!

Rachel made breakfast in her own kitchen using ingredients she bought from the store!