Thursday, August 28, 2014
Breakfast After Practice
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| Breakfast at Emerson Dinning Hall. Orange Juice, Coffee, Yogurt, Everything omelet, and pancakes |
Best way to start your day
The picture I took for my first blog post is a few eggs being cooked for breakfast. What is the most important meal of the day? Breakfast…So I took this picture for two reasons. 1. Because I love eggs and they are extremely good for you and 2. Because breakfast is the most important meal of the day, especially for your brain. This is usually my daily choice for breakfast, so I thought it would be good to post.
-Jordan Jenkins
Pete Found the Pear Tree...
...and is contemplating eating one. On the subject of poisonous pears the internet has much to say but is ultimately inconclusive. We called it "Family Dinner"
Food is a part of our Wheaton experience , but Aramark doesn't have to be.
During the info session on the upcoming dining hall renovations, a student asked if in the future, it would be easier to get off Wheaton's meal plan. The presenter said no, because sharing meals was an important part of the Wheaton experience. Last week, my friends and I all contributed to purchase the foods we wanted, and created an amazing meal together. We still had a great experience which contributed to our overall Wheaton experience, food was involved, but Aramark was not.
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| Chase Meals no longer desired |
The Food We Waste at Wheaton
I was dining in Chase with my friends, and as I looked around the table, I was shocked at how much food we were wasting. All of the dishes in the image above are meals my friends had tried and no longer wanted to eat even though there was still a significant amount of food leftover. I have just arrived back on the Wheaton campus from studying abroad in South Africa, and in the dining hall there, we were given our food already distributed in specific portions due to the fact that the university could not afford to waste. Needless to say, being back in the Wheaton dining halls has been quite shocking seeing how much food our students waste and push aside, when for 5 months I was in a country where the majority could not afford to waste, and many would be grateful to have the food we push aside. I am not sure how as a community we would address/improve this here at Wheaton, it is just a thought that has come to my mind during my recent days here.
Are Wheaton Students prisoners of the meal plan?
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| Cage Free Eggs at Chase |
Are Wheaton Students prisoners of the Meal Plan?
Ah, Chase. You'll smell it before you see it. And then you see it, all the junk food you could ever want: endless fries, pizza, hamburgers and cookies. The "freshman fifteen" suddenly seems more like a reality and less like a myth. Chase Square has a more "home-cooked" meal feel to the items: eggplant parmesan, a chicken dish of some sort, etc. But what of the vegans? I guess its salad and/or peanut butter and jelly, again. My freshman year (the only year I was on the meal plan) I certainly gained at least fifteen pounds due to the sheer amount of peanut butter I was consuming. But this weight gain was not indicative of improved nutrition. In fact, I stopped getting my period because Wheaton's vegan options were so limited. I was lucky though because I was able to get an exemption from the meal plan without a doctor's note, although the cessation of menstruation very well may have warranted one. Since then Wheaton's meal plan exemption policy has changed drastically, making Wheaton students prisoners of the meal plan. Many Wheaton students who had previously been granted a meal plan waiver have been put back on the meal plan against their wishes and no longer can you use moral or ethical reasons to be excuse, but rather you must have a disability. It appears a lifestyle choice like veganism is not a valid enough reason to not eat Emerson's macaroni and cheese. Additionally there's the question of where does this food come from? Wheaton's menu does feature produce items from nearby farms but what about the meat? Confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are the evilest of evils in terms of animal raising and I'm sure many Wheaton students will agree. However, we should not forget the success of the cage free egg campaign, although it was like pulling teeth to get dining services on board. Cage free or not, the eggs at Chase (pictured above) are not suitable for vegans, for which there are few other options. Many students are perfectly content to be on the meal plan but for those who are not it is way to difficult to get off. Eating is a basic human need and we should be able to choose how we do so. To demand students to partake in the meal plan (whose wish it is not to) is to put a restraint on the freedom to eat as we choose.
Day 1: Emerson breakfast
Last semester as a freshman, I didn't eat too much breakfast because I would wake up just in time to get to class. Now, more in the rhythm of things at college, I can get up and have time to enjoy a hearty morning meal. I'm not too crazy about the pancakes here or the powdered eggs but eating it occasionally reminds me of better food experiences.
Dining Around the Dimple Part I
Homemade pizza for dinner at Wheaton College. I am off the meal plan, so a few of my friends and I celebrated the first day of classes with a deep dish collaborative pizza made in my dorm kitchen.
Session With Pete: The Outline
- Accepting your invitation to the blog
- Editing your profile
- Adding a post
- w/ location
- w/ labels
- w/ images or media
- via mobile
- via email
- Commenting
- Messing around, Q&A
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
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