Breakfast and Lunch

I wasn’t able to post this morning because I went to the dining hall for more musousy oats (with sliced banana, tsp brown sugar, Tbsp raisins, and a splash of soymilk to help it cool down because I didn’t have time to wait) right before my 9:30 class!  They were better today though, but I got the same boring thing plus a cup of watermelon and a glass of soymilk!  I went to speech class, listened to my classmates give speeches, then studied more for my archaeology exam during my hour and forty-five minute break that is usually only an hour!  I couldn’t focus, but I think the test went pretty well!  After that I went back to the dining hall to pick up some lunch to take back to my room (29 passes left!).  I got a cup of 9 bean soup (I only counted 5 beans), 2 oranges, and a little 8 ounce bottle of water because that’s the amount you can get for one pass, which costs about $10.  What a rip off, huh?  So, I put together a lunch when I got back to my room.  The bean soup, an apple, blueberry silk again (don’t mind because I like these a lot), kashi honey sesame crackers, and a cup of yummy organic white tea!  Oh, and my multivitamin and B12 that I did not take this morning.  :-)  I am going to relax now until my 3:00 microbiology lab.  After that I will be on the bus heading home for the weekend because I don’t have class on Fridays  I’ll have a snack, then head to the gym for a workout.  Can’t wait for some real food!  

 

“Mucousy” Oats

This morning I was up at 7:30 to be at the bus by 8:05 to take back to school in Pittsburgh.  What another yucky rainy day.  It’s so cloudy, but spring is coming!!  I walked to the dining hall after getting off the bus around 8:40 to have some breakfast since I need to use up my meal plan :-(.  Basically, the breakfast options are: muffins, bagels, pastries, eggs, bacon, waffles, french toast, omelets, sugary low fiber cereals, oatmeal, cream of wheat, yogurt, and some fruit.  The only things I would be interested are an omelet and oatmeal…and of course fruit.  They use (I swear) 1/4 cup oil to cook an omelet in, so that option was out.  And what’s better than a nice warm bowl of oats?!  However, they definitely use instant oats because they were mucousy as some people call it.  ehhh.  Still okay though.  I took about a 3/4-1 cup of cooked oatmeal, 1 Tbsp of raisins, and about a tsp of light brown sugar.  I sliced up a banana too and kind of mixed that in as well.  It seemed like they added sugar in the cooking process (gross) because it was sweeter than I like it.  It wasn’t really that bad though!   (Not a good picture - sorry!)  I will be heading to the gym now for 40 minutes of ET/treadmill before my African Dance class at 11:30.  I will definitely have a snack in between because this breakfast was only about 300 calories, plus some if there was in fact sugar in there.