college students/keto

[T Bone54]

Any other college students doing keto? IMO this is hard as hell to follow on a nomal day in our caf. breakfast is decent, but other then that all we get is awful casseroles and food loaded with carbs..anyone else feel the same way ?

[ihop1411]

yup man i just finished my first semester of college and have been ketoing since like a week into the semester.
ipretty much live on taking the buns off of the burgers they make us... i do live at home so i cook up a bunch of steak and cut it then freeze it and take it with me to eat...i guess if i lived at school id just get a little freezer for my dorm and cook everything on the weekend

[x buhlayz x]

ya gotta learn to cook on your own/budget for healthy food...
after all you cant look like arnold eating ramen noodles all day.
3 cheap staples for me are chicken thighs, eggs, and canned tuna.
i guess if you're living in a dorm you would really have to get creative
best of luck sir

[advancednoob87]

I lived in a dorm room for the last two year, but never did keto there. I now live in an apartment so I am thinking about giving it a shot for a couple months. I dont think it would have been too hard in while eating at the meal hall. You could do burgers and chicken with no buns, tofu, tuna, eggs, cheese, mayo and anything else that fits in, and its all available!
-Geoffrey

[abar]

I did something much like keto (general lowered carb) by eating only meat products and salads in the dining hall. At OU we have different lines for different entres, so one line could be Italian, the other Mexican, but the one constant was a fast food line. So I ate lots of burgers, eggs, deli meats, and salad. Weekends were free. It worked pretty well, so good luck.

I live in my own house now, so I eat mainly steak and ground beef.

[i killed judas.]

i have an apartment. nothing special. but full-size fridge, stove, oven, microwave, toaster oven. i also have a george forman grill. i havent eaten cafeteria food since the 27th of august. i haven't eaten cafeteria food even remotely on a regular basis since march of last year.

i spend about $50-60/week on groceries, regardless of diet (i just began keto recently, but before was a on a strict 40/40/20 at 2000 calories/day). this amounts to $900 for the entire semester, on the high end. a meal plan for a semester here, for as much as i eat, is roughly $1500.

next semester, skip the meal plan, and the use the money to instead buy your own groceries. not only is it healthier, but itll save you at least $500/semester.

it also helps if youre in a city and have small markets in the area. im in philadelphia and there is a place right outside of my work that sells a fresh, unroasted, completely raw bag (2 cups worth) of different kinds of nuts for between $2-2.50/bag. I usually load up on brazil nuts, almonds, walnuts, macadamia nuts, pecans each week. the same place also sells broccoli for something absurd like $1.00/head and other vegetables for relative, albeit low prices. this helps a lot in keeping my weekly costs down.

[PyroBurns]

Talk to the chefs at the school. They might accomodate you!

[dfunk1132]

Yeah trying to do keto using just the food available from the school cafeteria is tough, but definitely doable! Try telling them that you're allergic to gluten and they have no choice to accommodate you.

Luckily for me, my dining hall happens to have an awesome selection so staying on keto has been pretty easy for me so far

[Tootella]

does that cafeteria have a salad bar? You can make some awesome salads with fatty dressing and whatever meat they're serving that day

[deadfingers]

Salads get old quick though. I've never been to college, but I have lived in dorms for the past 2 and a half years. I know what it's like, you just have to adjust. I had a microwave in my dorm, so I made a lot of meals that I could easily make in the microwave or could easily put together without much. I cook here in the dorms since they have a kitchen on my floor, but I feel your pain. It sucks, but it's doable.

[T Bone54]

yea, ive been trying to mix in a lot more greens lately, but it does get old. a lot of the meat we get is coated with god knows what, so its hard to tell what i can put in my body. depending on whos working i can sometimes convince them to give me some chicken or tuna, which is nice. i go to a really small private college, so there arent many options here. i would get rid of the meal plan, but they require us to have a meal plan if we live on campus, its ridiculous..anways, thanks for the posts everyone. glad to know im not the only one!

[resurrected]

So what is in the hamburgers at the cafeterias?
How about the seasonings on fish and what ever else they serve?
Alot of hidden carbs here. Sometimes burgers are full of fillers.........