12 Abnormal Eating Habits That Only College Kids Consider Normal
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12 Abnormal Eating Habits That Only College Kids Consider Normal

What do you mean it's weird to eat mac and cheese three times a day?

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12 Abnormal Eating Habits That Only College Kids Consider Normal
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When you're in college, your eating and drinking habits become a mess. However, it's totally okay because every college student goes through the same experiences.

Here are 12 weird college diet habits you have most likely experienced:

1. Forgetting to eat for hours on end.

You've seen days where you spend several days in the library writing that 15+ page paper, only to realize once you've finished that you are seconds away from passing out from starvation and dehydration.

2. Never having an actual eating schedule.

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are foreign words to you. At college, you eat what you can whenever you can. If you're lucky, you'll have enough time in a day to eat three full meals.

3. Consuming everything in sight once you finally do eat.

There are times where you eat more in one day than you have all week. Once you start eating, nothing can stop you.

4. Drinking on any day at any time.

You woke up and felt like it's gonna be a long day? 9:00am drinks. Just failed a major test? 2:00pm drinks. You have no reason but you just feel like drinking? 6:00pm drinks.

5. Spontaneous health kicks that last less than 24 hours.

You start to regret drinking 24/7 and eating everything in sight, so you go on a health kick to become fit again.....except after about half a day you can't stand it anymore and you fall right back into the same old habits.

6. Thinking peanut butter fixes everything. And realizing you're right.

Peanut butter is the drug that fixes everything. Studying for an unbearable number of hours? Peanut butter and jelly! That boy you met Thursday night at the party still hasn't texted you back? Peanut butter on crackers! Failing that class you need to graduate? Peanut butter on oreos! Just peanut butter on everything.

7. Being incapable of cooking for yourself.

If you live in the dorms, you don't have access to kitchens or stoves or ovens. You spend your free time googling those weird college in-a-mug hack recipes, desperately trying to find new home-cooked meals you can make in your dorm room microwaves.

8. Eating an unhealthy quantity of late night meals.

Whether you've been up all night studying or you're just simply drunk, you've eaten food at 3:00 am more times than you care to admit. "Everyone will eat some, right?" Wrong. It's 4:00 am now, you've eaten every last bite, and you woke up filled with regret.

9. Paying with change when you go out to eat.

This one doesn't really have anything to do with diet choices, but you can almost feel the shame in the air as you shell out whatever coupons and money you could scrap together from in-between your cushions to pay your dinner bill.

10. Mac and cheese has become a staple food, and also your best friend.

We've all had those weeks where we've eaten Easy Mac for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Why go to the dining hall when you can eat mac and cheese from the comfort of your dorm room?

11. Having the same meals every week. #TacoTuesday


After about the ninth week of the same five meals, you would rather eat nothing than take another bite of that pizza or those fries.

12. Creating (inventing?) food combinations that are disgusting and slightly disturbing, but surprisingly tasty.

When you're running out of just about everything in your snack stash, you start to come up with some weird and borderline unholy combinations of food. But hey, a college kid has to do what a college kid has to do, right?

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