"Wow, you literally eat the same thing every day," my roommate, Lucy, commented on my plate at dinner one night. I had my favorite meal to get at our diner; mac n' cheese and Maryland's infamous fried buffalo chicken wrap (with a cup of coffee, of course). I looked over at Lucy's plate, which had a piece of grilled chicken, quinoa, and 3 different kinds of vegetables.

"Not true!" I jokingly retort, "sometimes I get french fries instead!"

"Yeah, sure," she rolls her eyes, "I'd like to see you go an entire week just eating those 3 foods"

"I bet I could!" I declared, stuffing my face with mac n' cheese.

And that is how my week eating just 3 foods of my choice (buffalo chicken wraps, mac n' cheese and my favorite dorm snack, Lucky Charms) started.

What started as a simple challenge between my roommate and I turned into a game of how to still eat the best I could while on a limited version of my usual diet. There are 3 diners on my campus and only one of them serves the buffalo chicken wrap each day so I started each day planning where I would eat each meal so that I could try and get some semblance of all the major food groups.

I had Lucky Charms for breakfast, most dinners, and my midnight snack and will probably be taking a bit of a break from the sugary cereal for a while. Mac n' cheese filled in all other meals that didn't have buffalo chicken but I'm still not sick of them. I even lucked out at a business school event where they served fried mac n' cheese balls. Coffee was had all the time, of course, which usually takes up a good bulk of my caloric intake anyway. The end of the week was celebrated with a stack of Maryland diner's coveted M&M cookies.

I was interested to see how a limited diet would go, but sadly, my simple science project showed no results. Maybe it was because I already eat a pretty unhealthy diet, but my body showed no issues. The only hard part was that I did want to eat some other foods in the diner or snack on some chocolate in my dorm, but it wasn't that hard to choose the foods I could eat since I liked them just as much.

Only being able to eat three foods did make me see all the different food options on my campus. I, of course, saw what I couldn't have and wanted to eat it. They're so many organizations and campus activities that offer free food and can open you up to other opportunities or help you learn something new.

I want to try and have more variety in my diet, now that I saw exactly how much food I couldn't eat this week. So I guess you could say my lesson is that you should never turn down free food, it may just lead to something interesting worthwhile. As much as I love my 2 a.m. Lucky Charms tradition, I'm excited to try new foods and activities on and around campus.