The quality of our food...

As many people on UNK know Chartwells caters to all the students on campus. This includes the cafeterias at URN, URS, and the Union. The claim is that the food at Chartwells is good for us. They have a variety of foods for the students to select from and it’s always made “fresh.” From my experience at UNK this is not the case. So far this year at URN our cafeteria has been closed twice. In the middle of the semester are food was coming out cold, moldy, uncooked and unappealing. After several calls into change the food, it was finally closed down for two weeks. A month later the same thing took place and the cafeteria was once again closed. Every day the same food seems to be served- salad, mash potatoes, french-fries, cookies, grilled cheese, chicken sandwiches, cereal, soup, and ice cream. The food never changes and is never fresh. It’s like eating fast food every day, and it’s grows.
To me the food should be cooked with fresh foods, and made fresh daily. Most of the food is delivered frozen or ready to cook. None of it is made fresh or from scratch. This bothers me. In a world where people are becoming more and more over weight you would believe that society would want to change are terrible ways. Instead we only enforce it because after all it’s cheap. Today more and more teens from my generation are trying to eat healthier. For those of us watching what we eat, we have a very limited selection-salad. Now you have to understand salad gets very old to weight watchers and vegetarians. The fresh food part is nice but we miss the variety.
The change I would like to see at Chartwells would be for it to start making the food itself. To have cooks that know how to prepare good quality food that is healthy of people to eat. Not leftovers from lunch. I wish we had themes for each day-Italian, Mexican, Chinese, etc. This would add variety to our meals as well as introduce people to foods they may otherwise never eat. When I asked another person who eats at Chartwells she says that she doesn’t like the taste of the food. “It’s over cooked, undercooked, and just crappy half the time.”
Other people on campus may think it’s the best part of their day, getting to eat Chartwells food. Yet to me it’s the least favorite part. We’ve put moves forward to try and change the food that we are served but the process is slow and will most likely be ignored. So what does one have to do to get good food? What would happen if we started cooking are own food? In our society people are getting worse; does no one see the changes? Or are we to ignorant in are ways, to stuck and lazy to want to change them. I hope that one day are society will be able to change its ways before it ends up like all the people in Wall-E. That would be a very sad day.