Maybe I'd have the stuff on the tray if I only got one go of it, but I clearly have more than that. On the tray is breakfast - sausage, eggs, and potato wedges - and rigatoni with pesto and garlic bread. The third plate has broccoli beef with rice. Sadly, after I consumed the majority of this food, I also ate a slice of pepperoni pizza and a couple of sausage patties (which came out after I had gotten breakfast the first time). I felt extremely guilty after this meal, and I wonder why more students don't. Whose idea was it in the first place to offer all-you-can-eat dining? Why would that be a good thing to offer impressionable young students? Eating like this, kids can go well beyond gaining the freshman 15.
Anyway, I was full until well into dinner time, and I had wanted to make tomato beef to eat over rice, but I found that the flank steak I had bought a day before was already spoiled because our fridge wasn't cold enough for some reason. Luckily for me, Thomas, another friend, wanted to go to Trader Joe's to get stuff for tacos. I had most of what we needed, but we went to get the essentials - beef and taco seasoning. This was the resulting dinner made at 9 p.m.:
Ground beef soft tacos with lettuce, cheddar cheese, sour cream, and guacamole (pre-made from TJ's). Thomas made the beef and chopped the lettuce while I cooked Spanish rice, heated up a can of Cuban-style black beans (99 cents at TJ's!), and shredded the cheese. It was one of the most successful late-night dinners I've ever had. It amazes me that a few hours before, I had been so disappointed that my flank steak was spoiled that I had no idea what I was going to eat. It's a blessing to be surprised by good food, although I don't really know how I can be surprised when I helped make it.
P.S. I'm not counting the dining hall stuff as "ATE OUT" since I was treated to the meal. Tough luck if you feel I should count it!
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