CHICKEN THIGHS WITH HONEY GINGER GLAZE

One Comment

1. Reshma says:

   January 19, 2015 at 1:20 am

   Emma first of all, nice name! I just came from your situation rneectly (dining hall, no good food choices, etc.).Some of the things that I was able to do in my dining hall that I’d recommend you seeing if you can do:1. Have a blender in your room to make your own fruit smoothies. Add peanut butter to smooth it out, use frozen fruit if possible (so you don’t have to use ice cubes) or fresh fruit with some ice cubes and juice. Peanut butter (preferably without hydrogenated oils) is good for protein.2. Find someone who lives outside of the dorms (even if it’s an instructor) who would let you borrow their kitchen, if only on weekends. We used to go over to Pastor’s house to cook tehm dinner and eat something home-cooked at least once a weekend (they also let us use their laundry machines so awesome of them!).3. Look for protein sources elsewhere does the salad bar have hard-boiled egg? Put it on there for a healthy dose of protein. If you can, see if they have hard-boiled eggs that aren’t chopped up that you can eat too. You can’t really eat organically at a dining facility, unfortunately, but pick as smart as you can. Most fried foods at dining facilities (chicken fried steak, etc.) is AWFUL for you they often contain trans fats (at my school they didn’t have to put out info on that) or are fried in unhealthy oils. If given a choice between a baked potato and mashed potatoes, go for baked and dress it yourself. Powdered mashed potatoes have all sorts of nasty stuff in them. If nothing else, get the baked potato, pull out all the flesh, and make your own mashed potatoes out of them. There are a lot of ways to make food in your room if you only have an electric skillet or even a hot pot. Heck, I’ve seen people make grilled cheese on an iron with aluminum foil over it to protect the iron itself. Hot pot heating elements (the metal piece on the bottom) can be used to fry foods I had a roommate who used to make blueberry pancakes on it. Those, with Vermont maple syrup and dining hall fruit/yogurt/juice smoothies were some of the best Friday night dinners ever.If you like oatmeal, don’t get the pre-flavored packets. Take a plain packet and add what you want to flavor it. Brown sugar, raisins, nuts, other dried fruits, even a small amount of jelly or apple pieces. If you’d rather not do the sugar, you can buy yourself small jars of spices (like cinnamon and nutmeg) so you can flavor it yourself. You’ll find you don’t need as much or even any sugar if you have the flavor of spices like those. Honey works as a great sweetener that’s more natural too.If you can do dairy, cottage cheese is a great food (fats, calcium, etc.), and my school always had kidney beans or black beans available for vegetarians they make a good healthy addition to tacos, fajitas, etc. If you have a choice between fresh fruit and, say, mixed fruit in syrup, go for the fresh. It’s always healthier than syrup for the sake of syrup. Hope that helps some feel free to ask me questions about anything that I wrote that didn’t make sense, or ask specific questions about foods.