🧑‍🍳 Were you on a "meal plan" when you were in school? What about work? Have you had one there, as well?

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The stuffing thread led me to noodles this morning. College comes to mind; things I kept around the house for a quick meal. When needed.

When I was at UA I paid for one of their meal plans each semester. As I recall it was around $1000 a semester: 12 meals a week. At the time it was more than what you "could" pay for a lunch; or any meal. Seven bucks a meal? Somewhere around that number? It was somewhat restricted with only two meals on Sunday. But good lord!!!! The Sunday breakfast, at The Ferg, was worth the whole damn bit!! @UAgrad93 You ever hit that set up?

At that time I could grab something to eat from Rose all the way over to Burke. Tut if I was in RP that day.

(Crazy thinking back. Reese Phifer to Tutwieler. Or, another day is Charmicael to Ferguson. Burke, right before a basketball game? Easy.)

I actually miss that breakfast...it was a parents set-up. White tableclothes and all. I got full.
 
Work:

I don't know if you can beat this one.

Downtown Charleston. They decided to build. Third floor, technically, with access to a roof top eating area overlooking the bridge.

They fiercely promoted it to the point of giving money on employee ID's to eat free. I told my boss I wanted it all the time to "give people shit" when I can. He agreed.

It was a Waffle House set up. $200 a week. I still caught a shuttle or walked down King St. to grab a bite.
 
I had a meal card when I was at JSU. It was 2 meals a day M-F and 1 on either SAT or SUN. I always used it on Sundays for breakfast. The Sunday breakfast was always killer, usually scrambled eggs, bacon, pancakes/waffles, sausage, oj, milk, hash browns, etc. I got up early on Sundays for that, well worth it. During the week, I used it for lunch and dinner. For breakfast, I usually ate a Stouffer's French Bread Pizza. Easy to just throw in the microwave in the common room (microwaves weren't allowed in dorm rooms, then) and eat it on the way to class (my early class was all the way across campus and I usually drove there.
 
Galley food courtesy of the USN, baked chicken, Chinese 5 spice chicken, roasted chicken and for midrats when working nights dehydrated chicken left in oven on 200 since supper. Fun times but it beats mre's
Breakfast was my supper underway as I preferred nights and it was good. Fresh omelets until you were underway so long they ran out of eggs and resorted to the stuff in a carton.
 
The only time I was on a meal card was three time in the Army. BCT/AIT Fort Dix NJ, Ft Benning Ga, Pioneer Kaserne Hanau Germany that because I was living on post.
@Krimson I never had the MRE's it was C-ration for me.
 
Krimson said:
Mre's aren't terrible for a meal or 2, better than c rations I'm told, but i wouldn't wanna eat them daily.
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I know you have a lot of different meals type with the mre's, with the C-rations if I rememebr right you have four different type to get. each box was mark with a B-1,2,3. The best was the B-3. The first one I got the dated was in the 1940.
 
Krimson said:
Galley food courtesy of the USN, baked chicken, Chinese 5 spice chicken, roasted chicken and for midrats when working nights dehydrated chicken left in oven on 200 since supper. Fun times but it beats mre's
Breakfast was my supper underway as I preferred nights and it was good. Fresh omelets until you were underway so long they ran out of eggs and resorted to the stuff in a carton.
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Boat? Ship?
 
Krimson said:
Yeah, cruiser so technically a ship but often referred to as the boat
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Personal experience is with two 1st cousins: both retired from nuclear subs. I didn't ask even with the stories about the food. But, I can say they looked well fed after being gone for months.
 
TerryP said:
The stuffing thread led me to noodles this morning. College comes to mind; things I kept around the house for a quick meal. When needed.

When I was at UA I paid for one of their meal plans each semester. As I recall it was around $1000 a semester: 12 meals a week. At the time it was more than what you "could" pay for a lunch; or any meal. Seven bucks a meal? Somewhere around that number? It was somewhat restricted with only two meals on Sunday. But good lord!!!! The Sunday breakfast, at The Ferg, was worth the whole damn bit!! @UAgrad93 You ever hit that set up?

At that time I could grab something to eat from Rose all the way over to Burke. Tut if I was in RP that day.

(Crazy thinking back. Reese Phifer to Tutwieler. Or, another day is Charmicael to Ferguson. Burke, right before a basketball game? Easy.)

I actually miss that breakfast...it was a parents set-up. White tableclothes and all. I got full.
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I never did! My parents always told me to grab a gallon of milk and a box of cereal in mornings and ham and cheese sandwiches for lunch. I did live off campus behind the Strip too, so that would’ve meant making a special effort to get to dining halls.
 
TerryP said:
Personal experience is with two 1st cousins: both retired from nuclear subs. I didn't ask even with the stories about the food. But, I can say they looked well fed after being gone for months.
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Subs have better food but I ain't much on a boat designed to sink. Probably safest place on earth if crap hits the fan but I like to be able to see sunshine when I want to.

My recruiter tried to get me to go nuclear, told stories about 90 days under the ice. I told him he needed a new sales pitch, I wanted to see Thailand not the walls of a sub only to come up and get out on uninhabited ice.
 
UAgrad93 said:
I never did! My parents always told me to grab a gallon of milk and a box of cereal in mornings and ham and cheese sandwiches for lunch. I did live off campus behind the Strip too, so that would’ve meant making a special effort to get to dining halls.
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I looked at that area on both sides before making my "move." It didn't make sense to me. IE: I'm close to class. But if I want to go to the grocery store? Clothes? All we had, sans a shop here and there, was the mall. Everything you need was within a few blocks of the mall. Hell, when I left Home Depot was in for a bit.

When I first moved to campus I had a lot of places I wanted to look at before I signed a lease. So, my first three or so weeks were spent on the top floor of Rose. As I've mentioned before (maybe not this) my first place was off McFarland close to the Masters Inn shopping center, O'Charley's, (Damn. Mind is failing me. I can't think of the restaurant in front of the apt complex.)

I'm three miles away from school, right? I spent hours reading in the Internation Deli instead of going home...I digress. The meal plan made it easier.

Anywho...

Second floor. The Ferg. If you were coming from the parking lot it was on your left: ball room type of place. I swear to god, the tables of food were over 30 yards long. (Yes. I walked it off.)
 
Krimson said:
Subs have better food but I ain't much on a boat designed to sink. Probably safest place on earth if crap hits the fan but I like to be able to see sunshine when I want to.

My recruiter tried to get me to go nuclear, told stories about 90 days under the ice. I told him he needed a new sales pitch, I wanted to see Thailand not the walls of a sub only to come up and get out on uninhabited ice.
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Long story as short as I can.

Just moved here from Mphs to build. Didn't work in, but closely involved in the restaurant business while there. (Damn. Do I miss free tabs.) Fall, '92.

The oldest of the two asked me to help him one weekend. He said he would grill. He was right. And then it happened again.

Ya just know. "He's been eatin', somewhere."
 
I attended a small, Christian college in Nashville and we were required to buy the meal plan. 3 meals a day, 7 days a week. As y'all well know, I am very picky so that was wasted money. I kept a lot of sandwiches and snacks in my dorm room. After dinner, several of us would hit the local Wendy's or McDonald's on West End Ave. in Nashville.
 
alabama mike said:
I attended a small, Christian college in Nashville and we were required to buy the meal plan. 3 meals a day, 7 days a week. As y'all well know, I am very picky so that was wasted money. I kept a lot of sandwiches and snacks in my dorm room. After dinner, several of us would hit the local Wendy's or McDonald's on West End Ave. in Nashville.
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Food that's worse than Wendy's and McDonald's, that's bad.
 

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