“Each care package has everything a student wants for midterms - snacks!
Bags will include: chips, Goldfish, cookies, gummies, Airheads, a movie-sized box of candy, pencils, and erasers.”
She’ll be asleep after she eats that garbage.
I’d even accept some “protein bars” or similar, rather than that stuff.
Does no one look at the college look at this and say “this is crap”?
Oh my. Meanwhile my SO’s Mom remembered and gave me citruses (among others but still). I couldn’t come up with some better alternatives, you see. Citrus is a very Christmas-y thing, I typically get some for Saint Nicholaus day, had it all my life (even if there were no bananas in my early childhood, there were citruses and not only lemon) so it worked. By the way, I would be fine with lemons (my fav as it’s tasty, not too sweet and very useful) but that’s not a gifted item for some reason. And I eat this other kind in December anyway, like half at a time, a few times.
The edible part of your list is… Just horrible.
I don’t have the vaguest idea what “movie-sized” is (I never ate during movies and it’s odd to me others do) but it’s probably much. Not like a little would be okay. Fine, not all candies are the same but I suppose they are the very bad kind.
At least some of the items are salty so hopefully don’t contain added sugar though I have my doubts now that I think about it…
I find it very, very wrong and for most of us, kinda dangerous to possess more than a small amount of candy at once. I got better but I am 49 years old with lots of low-carb practice… As a young one, well. Let’s not think about it.
Apparently not. Just look at lists about breakfast treats for kids (in the US, IDK what is the case here but probably not that great, just better? we don’t live on highly processed stuff here, we cook and bake and stuff. there is plenty of bad stuff, of course but still, there are lots of more normal food as well)…
Yeah I understand… But if we are dreaming, what about some jerky? 
Not our pork rinds with more sunflower oil than lard (I never ever will get over that. we do have our traditional scratchings, it’s probably in every supermarket, never looked at the ingredients but it should be… more or less normal?).
Or at least peanuts. I like (salted roasted) peanuts, they are sweet too but not too much and my peanut addiction is mostly in check nowadays. Still closer to a normal food than highly processed treats and even tastier if you ask me. Though I do like the texture of crackers. It’s fun. But peanuts are crunchy too…
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Some people live in weird ways, quite many at that. Today I have learned that plenty of collage students manage to get scurvy. Wow. It’s supposed to be super hard as Vitamin C is in so many items… I couldn’t eat in such a restricted way, my body would scream at me and it’s not even about money! So many people’s idea about food is alarmingly shifted.
LOL. So true. I have to say I don’t handle carbs as well as I used to when I do eat them… They seem to put me asleep in the afternoon…
We are encouraged to eat as much utter garbage as possible when we go to the movies, All of it carbs. Gallons of popcorn and sugared soda, and 4-6 oz. boxes of candies and chocolates. Trust me, “movie sized” is Not ketogenic!
My uni has a few finals week options that don’t require carb consumption. Wings event, late night breakfast, therapy dogs and massages. Plenty of carbs around, too.
Our foodservice (Bon Appetit) is hard to navigate, though. They are more concerned with being sustainable and things like “healthy whole grains” than things like food allergies and low carb. They label stuff at least. I can’t eat there. My youngest can’t eat at her college food service, either. Same company. They try harder at her school, though.
@Shinita I’d love to see any meat in there, but even I don’t eat things like jerky because they’re so expensive (and actually a bit high carb … for me; not sure my daughter has to eat the way I do). I’d be happier with some of the protein bars.
@scaperdude That’s one of the reasons I’ve kept keto/low carb – carbs make me sleepy (and hungry).
Yeah “movie sized” is exactly what you don’t want. Everything in a movie is both huge and overpriced. (But I still like going to movies when I can.)
@beannoise Hers does too. She sent us a picture of her with a therapy dog. She probably doesn’t know about the email the college sent us. But I’ll ask her if she needs something like that for the next finals, and if so, I’ll prepare in advance and send things I think are good. Unfortunately, everything I think is good is all meat-based and expensive. But I can say that she won’t get tired.
Yeah, I would have a hard time eating at college. The days of a “cafeteria” appear to be gone. Finding anything meat-based, without tons of carbs, is a challenge. Sandwiches, pizza, etc., are all over the place. She has found a few places with lower-carb wraps and good cheese/meat/egg sandwiches, though. (And she’s nowhere near keto, but we ask her to prioritize protein.)
I’ve discovered I can make my own simple zero carb jerky comparatively cheaply, using Costco’s carne asada sliced beef - $7.99 per pound. It’s got almost no fat and the fact that it’s already sliced is a godsend - they get the angle right so it’s tender - I just cut the slices into strips, toss with salt, pepper, garlic powder & pepper flake and then spread it on a rack with a baking sheet under and slow roast it at 250 degrees F til it’s leather. It will lose moisture and weight, but I’d say it’s coming in at $10-$12 per pound, definitely an improvement, no sugar and I know what’s in it.
I am pretty sure candy isn’t supposed to be consumed in that quantities… For multiple reasons. I always had a huge sweet tooth and ate a ton of sweets but still, not THAT much… It’s very weird to make a big meal out of sweets. Well depends on the sweets and the person, I suppose but if it’s mostly-sugar sweets… Nope. Yuck.
Yeah I never had jerky, the price is INSANE (well already ruminant meat is kinda rare and expensive here but jerky, oh my. I don’t mind higher prices when it’s a one time taste and a tiny bag but jerky is too much even for that, it can’t be worth it for me)… Snack sausages then? Cheese strings? I can’t imagine a candy that is more tempting when I am not in my “I had food, now I need some dessert” mood (where I am still choosy but that’s me).
I very rarely ate at the university as I just went home in the evening and had proper food so I don’t have so many memories but the restaurant (not cheap but cheaper than a normal restaurant) had well, normal food. So carby, yeah but meat and vegs would be doable and not all soups are bad. Low-carb wouldn’t be so very hard I suppose and there was a small supermarket nearby as well. It’s decades old information though. I was a high-carber back then and it still wasn’t THAT great, hence going home and eat Mom’s food even if it was at 10pm. I always strongly preferred and probably totally needed proper cooked food.
Our cafeteria couldn’t even do pizza It was some weird dough with peas on it called mini pizza Once I ate that. Better than nothing, I was hungry. But it wasn’t worth it.
Sometimes I wonder how on earth people can pull it off with so low-protein options. My conclusion tends to be that most of those people need very low protein to survive. I need high protein for satiation so typical dishes wouldn’t work. I always get surprised when I look up legumes (my SO often cook them and I do like the taste of some), they are so very low protein! And then articles go and talk about grains as protein source… Maybe for a sumo wrestler or something. To me, boiled eggs are a tad low protein. But people happily eat food that is half carbs and half fat (typical cake/biscuit recipes I see)… Wow.
@kib1 That’s a great idea. Maybe I’ll try that over the holidays. At one time, we had a food drier, but I’m not sure we have that anymore. We did make some dog treats at one time with that.
@Shinita Way back when I went to college, there were very few places you could eat, and it was a cafeteria. Now, you basically get money on a card (more likely on your phone), and there are many places to eat. Most have pizza, sandwiches, etc. You no longer really get things like chicken, pork, beef, etc. My daughter is nowhere near keto, but it’s hard to get meat now.
If you put a decent pan under it you can deglaze it afterward and recapture some of that dripped-out beefy goodness, too. Makes a pleasant soup base.
Good ******* grief…