The college diet is different from any other diet you will have throughout your life. At no other time will you be forced to live off of packaged foods and sodium for four years straight. Before and after college, you will have a kitchen and real ingredients to prepare meals for yourself. The freshman fifteen does not just come from stress eating, though; it comes because the only foods available to students in dining halls and take-out menus are filled with high-calorie, high-fat, high-sodium ingredients. Below is a list of stereotypical (but true!) foods that make up a college student's diet.
1. Peanut butter with anything.
If the only thing available is peanut butter, then straight peanut butter on a spoon is also acceptable.
2. A lot of Easy Mac.
3. Bagel bites.
4. Hot Pockets.
5. Ramen.
6. Nutella.
Just like with peanut butter, Nutella can be consumed with other foods, but it is also acceptable to eat straight out of the container.
7. Mug cakes.
These are for the Pinterest-fanatics.
8. Midnight delivery pizza.
Nothing tastes as satisfying as greasy, boxed pizza at one in the morning on a Thursday.
9. Asian takeout.
10. Fruit.
This includes grapes, bananas, apples -- really any fruit that is grab n' go.
