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College students may often be short on both cash and time, making a wholesome meal is easy with the right planning.
Nutritious, delicious and manageable
BY EMILY MCCOY emccoy@kansan.com
Though taking the pizza delivery numbers off speed dial could be the first step to healthy eating, it doesn't have to be the end of saving time and money on meals. There are ways to eat deliciously and nutritiously while living within the means of the typical student lifestyle.
But often the price and time needed to cook deters some students.
"Healthy eating is difficult," Claire Williams, St. Louis junior, said. "I know I am uneducated, but I just don't like the idea of having to go to the store and have to make the food yourself. Plus, healthy foods always seem to be more expensive."
Williams is not alone, said Ann Chapman, coordinator of nutrition counseling at Watkins Memorial Health Center. Chapman said many people wanted to eat healthy but weren't equipped with the knowledge or resources to do so.
"People get caught up in school, social life and work," Chapman said. "Healthy eating just falls by the wayside. The key to healthy eating is flexibility and organization."
Even though students may be short on time, making a fast, healthy meal is easy. Chapman said it was best to plan meals in advance, complete with recipes and ingredients. The initial planning might seem time-consuming, but when everything necessary to make a meal is in the refrigerator, the actual assembly can be done quickly, she said.
Amber Long, fitness coordinator at Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center, also suggested planning meals ahead of time. But she said that occasionally it was okay to give into unanticipated cravings.
"You have to listen to what the body needs or wants," Long said. "Cravings often represent deficiencies found in the body."
Long said that all things were fine in moderation, but that it was important to limit
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APRIL 23,2009
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