We’ve been in school for about a month now, and already all the food at Warren Dining Hall tastes the same. It’s easy to be a passive eater and complain that nothing tastes good or that everything tastes bland.
Think about it: we have an all-you-can-eat dining hall. One swipe is all it takes to eat to your heart’s content. All you have to do is be a little creative with the different stations and I guarantee it’s possible to have a tasty, even healthy meal.
First, familiarize yourself with all the different stations. There are the basic stations such as the grill, the international food, the oven, the salad bar, and the dessert bar. You don’t have to stick to the food they give you. Instead, take a plate from one station and put ingredients from another onto the plate to make a unique combination. Changing what you eat every time will help you stay content with the dining hall food.
With mixing different foods, the salad bar will become your best friend. Adding various fruits and vegetables to your food can add a variety of flavors to your food. You can always add a vegetable like broccoli to your pasta to get your daily serving of vegetables and add a different texture to your food. Or, if you’re in the dining hall early for breakfast, you can add some cheese to your scrambled eggs to make them taste even better.
If you’re at the dining hall early, you can always make your own PB&J at the bread station in advance for lunchtime when you’re on the go. Don’t forget that the Dining Hall has a toaster, so you can have a warm bagel with cream cheese and jam on a cold day.
The most important plus to mixing different stations is the dessert bar. Not in the mood for cold apple pie? No worries, simply take it to the microwave and warm it up for a few seconds. Then, you can go to the waffle bar to add ice cream or to the ice cream station to contrast the warm pie with the cold ice cream. I promise, the taste of warm apple crisp and cold vanilla ice cream is the best, even worth taking a break from a healthy diet. After all, who doesn’t like a good apple crisp?
Although the food gets boring sometimes, we at BU have one of the best dining halls in the country. The difference between a tasty meal and a tasteless one lies within a few ingredients, something you can definitely do in an instant.