Eating well in a dorm.

Well congrats on moving into your first dorm. It's a kickass experience.

Last year when I was on residence we had a small communal kitchen. We weren't allowed to have microwaves or toasters of that sort in our rooms.

As for your situation, you can do things like, microwave a can of vegetarian chili. Get some cheese, veges and a pita and then make yourself a nice health y wrap. You can also microwave eggs, steam veges and that sort. If you have access to a stove...then you have a lot more options.

I found that I ended up eating 2 meals a day in res, 1 brunch 1 dinner, though you can experiment differently. If you are on a set meal plan like everyone eats at this time, eating together kinda like a big family dinner, then stuff yourself. If you're on the pay as you go style then buy some extra and keep it in your room till you're hungry at night. Check if your mealplan can be used for paying for delivery stuff. Our mealplan worked for pizza pizza and pitas.

Also check with your roommates and what they plan on eating. Make sure you'll be fine if they cook meat or whatnot in your room and if you cook smelly veges in the room (ex portabello mushrooms...well i generally hate mushrooms, so it might smell nice to you guys)

Stock up on canned soup, but honestly, I found that as long as you have some snacks to munch on, you'll usually be fine.

Galen: you have a kickass avatar. lol

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah about the plastic thing, I'm pretty sure it's true. My friend who got one of those Evian bottles decided to reuse it several times and he noticed a funny taste in his water afterwards.

A tip for microwaving old rice is to wet a napkin and cover the rice with it. This way your rice won't be crunchy or whatnot when you eat it. Other veges you can steam like Alice mentioned are potatoes and corn. Just add butter and instant meal =)

Heh good luck to all your first years. Don't go home every week, get to know people. Go to all your classes...really, it does help. Tutorials rock (as long as your TA's don't suck). Get involved, join clubs. Oh yeah abuse your university sharing network (if you have one). For all thsoe Canadian universitiers, as far as I know, Waterloo University has a network, but they don't allow certain things on it (such as pornography) and also they ban you from the internet if you use bittorrent.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by nadienne

cause the ones in the mini fridges don't keep things very cold. Ice cream usually melts. =/

That's very true, we put in a tub of icecream and sideways...and our freezer wasn't exactly...yeah. Oh you can turn up the power...but then the stuff on the top rack of the fridge starts freezing. Cruddy uni fridges.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.