Healthy Eating on Malaysian Campus?
College students rarely have time to cook due to spending most of their time on studying, completing last-minute assignments (yes, I’m guilty of that too haha), tests and last-minute revision. Sometimes we spend so much time with our papers and books that we even skip meal times and end up binge eating later.
... As students, we rarely have time to cook due to our 100 % exam-oriented education system in Malaysia...
As students, we rarely have time to cook due to our 100 % exam-oriented education system in Malaysia. Because of that, we tend to eat at the campus cafeteria, cook unhealthy instant noodles and fried items such as prawn fritters or worse, eat out at junk food outlets. So what can we college students do to eat healthily on campus?
It’s actually simple enough. If you’re lucky, your campus hostel may allow students to bring a rice pot for cooking in the pantry (or even inside hostel rooms). Most campuses also have a mart selling groceries. Stock up on eggs, oats, low fat or skim milk powder and wholemeal bread. You can boil, half-boil or even scramble 2 eggs in the rice cooker and eat them with 2 slices of wholemeal bread for a perfect breakfast in the morning. You can also eat 4 egg whites or more with the yolk removed for a high protein, low cholesterol breakfast.
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