Kent Dinning Hall

After being in Kent for 3 years I learned that food could make you depressed. Kent School dinning hall didn’t only change my way of eating but also my way of thinking about food. Every time when I am about to eat something in the dinning hall I have to stop for a second to think if what I am about to eat is good for me. Most of the food in the dinning hall is unhealthy and bad for the students. I am not blaming the staff that cooks the food; I am blaming the companies who deliver unhealthy food for Kent. We barely get any fresh fruits, most fruits we get are in a can. The salad bar consists mostly of vegetables which been there for the past day or two. The hot food line sometimes serves vegetables but they are usually cooked which makes them loose all their vitamins. The healthiest is always to eat a sandwich because it is combination of proteins from the meat and vitamins from the vegetables. At least once a day I cook myself a sandwich and I have been doing this for all my 3 years in Kent. The products available for the sandwich have always been the same. It is very annoying to be going to the dinning hall every day knowing that you are going to eat the same chicken sandwich.

Sometimes, especially during the winter, it is tough to eat the same food over and over. All the food just starts to taste the same way and the fact that we get all our food delivered by the same company every year makes it so much worse.

Another thing that should be changed are the drinks in the dinning hall. It seems like we have a big variety of juices to choose from but in reality they can’t be called juices. The orange juice is more like an orange drink; it tastes like citric solution with lots of sugar.

It is obvious that these “juices” have no vitamins in them whatsoever.

The good news is that I found a way to survive in an environment like that. Every day I try to eat different food even if I don’t like the taste and every day I try to get either a bowl of salad or fruit even though it’s almost impossible to eat. It is also good to order some food once in a while or to go to town for lunch or dinner on the weekend.