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Anonymous
I don't have time for breakfast usually. In the summer, I used to be able to take my time to eat anything I wanted for breakfast, which usually ended up being some broiled or baked skinless chicken (or other lean meat) and a vegetable and/or fruit. Breakfast is just the first meal of the day, there's no reason people eat "typical" foods like eggs and sausage aside from societal habits.
Now that classes have started again, I have to be out the door for a 1+ hour commute three days per week and a 20 minute commute on the other two days (taking classes at multiple campuses). I started relying on Fiber One bars, which have about 150 calories each and are fairly low in sugar. They're usually just oat and nut bars with a random third thing in there to change flavor (dried fruits, a bit of carmel, peanut butter, etc.). I just eat two of those in my car on the way. Might not be the best, most natural breakfast, but it gives me slow burning carbs, a tiny bit of fat and just enough sugar for a wake-up energy spike and they don't overload me with calories.
If it's available, sometimes I'll grab only one bar and a banana or apple. I only do this if I have an extra five minutes or so to eat the fruit in the house, because I don't want a fucking banana peel sitting in my car on the ride there or apple juice dripping on my fucking chin in the car.
And lunch. Fuck. Forced to eat at the campus cafeteria and 95% of their food is greasy shit like pizza and burgers. The only healthy things I can get down there are the boxed chef salad with fat free dressing and Baked Lays. I don't even trust their turkey or ham sandwiches cause deli meats can sometimes be loaded with calories and there's no way I can know what I'm eating. At least with the salad I know it's all vegetables and a low calorie dressing and the Baked Lays, while not ideal, only have 110 calories and 1.5 grams of fat per bag.
It's hard to eat healthy in college.
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