Cooking in College!
Statistics
These
statistics, below, were founded through a survey that was sent out to the
students of Cal State San Marcos. We collected 103 responses; the responses
were predominantly female, due to the campus being predominantly female.
Insight from Interviews
Interview with Collin Wagstaff
Collin
is a first year in college, and plays soccer both for the school and on a semi-professional team. Do to his high amount of activity; food plays a large part
in his everyday life. His coaches tell him what he should and should not eat,
because of his strict diet where certain times of the year he has to eats more
calories, and other times of the year he eats less. He tends to cook chicken
and rice as much as he can because it is quick, easy, and relatively healthy. It
helps that he lives in an apartment with other soccer players; this makes it
easy to stay on track with his diet. However, when he goes out to eat it is
mostly for the social aspect, because of this he believes if he wasn’t on the
soccer team, or had roommates he would most likely eat out less. Even though he
eats out a lot it is usually because he needs to gain weight for soccer, so he
himself has not experienced the freshman fifteen but he has seen it happen to
his buddies. Collins responses tell us that not all college students experience
the freshman 15 and the stereotypical representation of students as junk food, many
students actually engage in food making,
rule-setting and self-regulation with much energy even if, sometimes, dinner becomes
a matter of quick fixes (Blichfeldt, & Gram, 2013).
For college students money is
usually an issue but not for Collin. He has been blessed with not having to
worry about money or budgeting for most of his life, his family still helps him
out when needed. But, is now starting to realize he spends a good amount of
money on groceries, and eating out, he is taking notice into how much he needs
to start taking charge of his own financial.
Interview with Alyana Booker
Alyana Booker is involved in Greek
Life at CSUSM. Alyana is vegetarian so her diet isn’t strict as to how she
eats, but strict to what she eats. Her favorite food is pasta, and according to
“University Caterers Organisation’s 2018 report on eating habits found the most
popular food was still pasta” (Cloake,
2018). Even though she says
that Greek life, doesn’t affect her eating habits, she makes it clear that
there is no time for her to cook. She does try to cook at least every other
day, but it isn’t anything special, mainly pasta because it is easy.
“The main challenge seems to be to get into the habit of cooking on an everyday
basis” (Blichfeldt, & Gram,
2013). Alyana tends
to go out about three times a week, and mainly eats out for the social aspect
of it. She does admit that she is a picky eater but really wants to change her
eating habits to make more healthy choices.
As for money, Alyana doesn’t worry
about it too much because she gets help from her parents; because of this she
doesn’t budget, she doesn’t have a job, so she doesn’t feel the need to budget.
However, she is starting to notice how much things are costing, and realizes
she needs to get a job to understand the value of money.
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