Nutritious Food on Campus

With so many different food venues on campus, it's  easy to grab a quick snack in between classes. But how healthy is what you're grabbing? With over 30,000 enrolled students, places all over campus are starting accommodating students with special diets/restrictions. This project will concentrate on exploring various places to find nutritious food, whether your diet is omnivorous, vegetarian, gluten-free or just plain healthy and balanced. This project will focus on the many options open to students at the U.

Joy Corpus

Bennion Center providing many opportunities for students

The Bennion Center, located at the Union Building on campus, is a great place for students to go to find many service opportunities. Each year, the Bennion Center presents a Hunger Banquet that allows students to display their work they've done to raise awareness of hunger in the community.
The Bennion Center provides student volunteer opportunities at the Campus Gardens, Farmers Market, or even off-campus locations to help the community.

The History of the University Campus Gardens

The Campus Gardens at the University of Utah began with a professor of biology, Dr. Fred Montague, who taught Global Environmental Issues and Ecologoical Principles of Organic Gardening using outdoor laboratories. These outdoor laboratories were transformed into garden sites by the Campus Gardens Advisory Committee upon Dr. Montague's retirement in 2010. The first garden, the Sill Garden, surrounds the Office of Undergraduate Studies just east of the Union building. The second garden site, Pioneer Garden, is just east of the Pioneer Memorial Theater. The gardens project is active year-round with summer and fall the height of the growing season.

By: Ryan Littlefield

Social Soup Series #1

This slideshow story is of the first Social Soup series,  “Body & Mind: Healthy Eating for the New School Year,” September 4, 2012, at the University of Utah.  There will be two more Social Soup events this semester on October 17 (Real Food for Food Day) and November 13 (The Food Stamp Challenge). The first one was in the Library on the first floor by the cafe and many students attended. The purpose of the lecture series is to discuss economical, social, and environmental issues on food. There was a lot of talk about eatting more healthy on a budget and what types of foods are the best for your health that will support optimal brain functioning and stress management. There was some talk about the food options at the school cafeteria in the student union. There was also some radish plants that were brought in free from the school's garden to eat.

The Food Stamp Challenge

Since 2007, the number of food stamp recipients in Utah has risen by 112 percent. The food stamp challenge which comes around every November, gives people the opportunity to live on a food stamp budget of $4 per day per person, $28 per week.

The farmers market at the University of Utah is a great way for many to achieve that goal of $4 per day. Not only do they have low prices, but with the acceptance of food stamps or food tokens as part of its program, everyone has the opportunity to take part. So give it a try this year.

The food of Social Soup

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxJR5bmF9EQ&feature=youtu.be

Among the great speakers that presented at Social Soup, there was what every college student desired: Food. Here the spread is perfectly laid out and prepared to be enjoyed while listening to informative lectures on nutrition as well as a cooking piece on how to make a delicious peach cobbler.
Bon Apetite!

Homecoming

 We will take a short break on the food/nutrition/hunger subject to show you a quick shot on how international students at the University of Utah participate on the Homecoming Week, through the eyes of people from different countries and with different life backgrounds. On this post, I will show what happened at an event called International Cafe, promoted by the International Center, where students gather and share experiences. Here's what was done at the house where the event took place.