Eat Right With Color, It's National Nutrition Month!

March is National Nutrition Month and this year's theme is Eat Right With Color.

Eating Right With Color can be accomplished by eating soup!

The picture to the right is of my vegan vegetable soup from Plaza Cafe. This soup contains several types of colors and veggies: green peas, white potatoes, orange carrots, yellow corn, green beans.

Soup is also soothing, particularly on a chilly day, and its volume tends to fill you up on fewer calories, which can be good if you're trying to lose weight.

You can find soup at every Dining Services' location. The healthier choices are broth-based (not cream-based) and contain a bunch of vegetables. Each restaurant serves at least one vegetarian soup daily.

If you have a favorite soup recipe, please send it to me! It will be considered for rotation into Dining's menu.

It's Pho Friday at Plaza Cafe!

Plaza Cafe features fresh, hot Pho every Friday. Here is a picture of my Pho lunch today.

I chose tofu for my protein so this meal is vegetarian. You could also choose shrimp, beef or chicken.

Although soups/broths tend to be fairly salty, these foods can be part of a healthy diet. Drink plenty of water and include plenty of potassium to offset your sodium intake.

What the Pho every Friday at Plaza Cafe!

Plaza Cafe on Revelle College features Pho every Friday at lunch. My favorite way to eat Pho is with the bean sprouts, basil, tofu and all kinds of sauce. The picture to the right is my Friday lunch. Yum!

You can also choose chicken or beef.

Soups, including pho, have a lot of volume, which can fill you up on fewer calories. Soup is also very soothing during the fall and winter months.

What the Pho?

Vietnamese-style Pho is served every Tuesday at Plaza Cafe (Revelle College.) Plaza's Pho is a tasty soup with vegetarian broth, noodles, veggies and your choice of chicken or tofu. In this picture, I also added some sriracha hot sauce.

Dining Services likes to include cuisine from around the world. What kind of international foods would you like to see served in Dining Services?