What's in that food??????!
What's in that food??????
I'm from California and I attend a private historically Black College in the south. I'm also a vegetarian. The food is gross, fatty, and extremely salty.They fry everything down here. I think the salt is causing my ankles to swell and my period to be irregular. We don't have many healthy alternatives and there is no kitchen to cook in. Are there any suggestions?
Answers:
Aside from fresh fruits and veggies when I was in school I got a rice cooker. I would sometimes mix in thai peanut sauce and eggs or whatever you want. Rice is cheap too.
dont eat in the dining hall!!
Go to the supermarket. Buy a lot of fresh fruit (apples, bananas etc) Get a fridge if you dont have one already. Put in yogurt, cheese, and other healthy foods that dont require cooking. Buy cereal and healthy granola bars like Kashi TLC bars.
Good luck!
Try some restaurants. Also, start a campaign for them to cook healthier food
Transfer to a school in California.
See if you are allowed any type of small cooking appliance in your dorm room (I'm assuming that you live in a dorm, otherwise you'd have other choices). Then find a small (bar) fridge and go shopping on a regular basis.
As well, start a campaign to change the the food service company and/or the options that are available.
You might look for anything and everything that you can find on Jaimie Oliver's School Lunch program in the UK, and present it to the administration as part of your campaign.
(Don't forget that stress can upset your cycle.)
order organic healthy stuff from online--get protein powder and drink that every day...ask for boiled potatoes etc--non-fried...yogurt--cerea... fruit--eat lots of salads and soups...invest in a mini stove or fridge etc..and
cook on your own...move out of the dorms --find some ethnic restaurants--the owners might know about alternative grocery markets and places to buy different types of foods...
Part of the ankle swelling might be from being on your feet or sitting at a desk all day at school. I got swollen ankles in nursing school and never got them before that. Try to keep your feet propped up when sitting on an ottoman or something.Try not to stay up on your feet for more than 8 hours or so. Try putting a pillow under your calves(with the feet hanging over the pillow, not ON it) when laying down, so that gravity helps drain the fluid out of your ankles.
As for the food, do the best you can to eat healthy.
It's a bit awkward to cook without a stove. But, you live in a State that has fresh vegetables and fresh fruit.That makes it easy.
Eat a salad made from avocado, some slices of oranges.
Buy a whole wheat bagel, put on some low fat cream cheese and top that with a sliced banana.
Make yourself a raw spinach salad. Buy baby spinach, 2 mushrooms, most deli sections have boiled egg, buy one, slice it, add some fresh strawberries, and for the dressing get Kraft poppy seed.
You didn't mention if you are vegetarian. If so...buy some whole wheat pita, a cucumber, some tomato, some sprouts and some sunflower seeds.
If not vegetarian...go to the deli counter and buy some sliced cheese and some deli meat and make a sandwich.
If you have a microwave...you have unlimited choices in the frozen food section.
Yogurt and fruit is nice for breakfast, so are cereals with fruit.
I hope these suggestion help you out.