Healthy Choices

So today I'm just writing to express my surprise and happiness over the cafeteria food options at my new job! Most of the hospital cafeterias that I have been to for my clinical through school have had the most AWFUL choices for anyone who is trying to eat healthy and honestly just sell almost absolute crap. The hospital I was at last semester, for example. The cafeteria closed at 5:30pm and we didn't get off the floor until 6pm, so our choices were either vending machines, cold chili, or fruit in a cup (which was expensive and disgusting). One day, I made the mistake of giving blood before my 8 hour clinical and I felt sick all day, and I was so desperate for food that I got one of those instant Ramen noodle cups out of a vending machine (they had a microwave ... what for? No clue.)

The cafeteria at the hospital I work at is honestly the best I've ever seen. They usually have 3 specials ... yesterday they had taco salad in a big tortilla bowl, salmon and rice, and grilled cheese and ham. A lot of that stuff I can't have anyway because of my PKU, so I usually don't get them, but one day they did have something called and eggplant stacker which was grilled eggplant and grilled veggies. In the middle of everything they have a HUGE salad bar. There's two different buffets, one is all salad, and one is all fresh fruit. Everything is honestly like PERFECTLY ripe and they don't use iceberg lettuce, they use romaine. Today I had some strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and pineapple and then made a small salad with oil and vinaigrette (they have shakers of those sitting out in addition to the other salad dressing.) It was delicious and we get a discount for working there so it was only $3.00!

This makes me so happy because I honestly am SO BAD at like packing lunches daily. I'm just awful, especially now having to get up at 0530. If I eventually go on PMs, I would probably bring something because I would have more time before work. I'm so happy that I won't have to worry about what to eat everyday!