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Here we are, slamming into midterms and hurling ourselves through the last winter bluster.
In the meantime, I’m still scrounging up what’s left of my latest french silk pie and eating rice krispies for breakfast. I don’t know how I’ve managed to survive for so long without succumbing to Thayer (and who’s to say I haven’t) but as a solid display of fortitude, here is a delicious chicken sandwich topped with spinach, greens and a tomato.
Yes! It was delicious. In the middle of this homework blitz, it’s getting real tough to be so optimistic about cooking food.
But let’s get practical. I have a quarterly checkup for myself and my public.
It’s time to re evaluate my decision to go off of meal plan and offer some very practical advice.
10 Tips For Avoiding Thayer:
1) Find another person with whom you might share some meals.
2) Remember that Thayer gets boring after about a week.
3) Make a sacrifice to the dairy gods – always have delicious cheese!
4) Never run out of mlik
5) Store bread in the fridge and never let yourself run out
6) Do your dishes everyday
7) Keep a staple food that’s quick and easy, at the ready (rice, pasta, toast)
8) Make the grocery store a regular thing (Saturday morning is so wonderful)
9) Know thyself – don’t give into a Subway craving every time you have one; you know when these will come about so pack some food for the all-nighter in the Sci-Li
10) Remember that food is perishable – you can’t eat on Thayer if you have fresh veggies that need to be eaten!
I hope you find this advice a little bit less abstract. Munch on!
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Nothing else occupied more of my time this week than Chi Alpha’s Haiti Fundraiser. Fortunately (and I’m not actually sure how fort fortuitous this actually happened to be) it was a bake sale.
I, along with 8-10 other dedicated individuals, made and sold baked goods in our university’s mail room for three days. The bags under my eyes betray my fatigue and to my dismay, there is still a “power” weekend of deliverinig breakfast-in-beds to several lucky students.
I honestly don't know why Sarah is so scared right here, maybe it's the unsanitary way in which she'll be licking our only spatula.
On Saturday and Sunday morning, I will play church hookie and make food for fellow classmates instead.
It’s not a far cry from what I did last Sunday. During the Superbowl party, where my Pastor sat commenting on the Saints’ “cinderella story”, myself and two other lucky ladies slaved over an extremely large batch of sugar cookies. Before the night was through, we had made over a hundred and proceeded to add an ambitious helping of homemade frosting.
We are donating every cent to Mission for Hope in Haiti. I will be posting the sugar cookie recipe as soon as I can get my hands on it.
Praise God for passion and ambition. Let us never misplace it.
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