“The Thanksgiving Aftermath: A College Student’s Dream Come True”

One thing I noticed when I first attended college was how much I missed home-cooked meals. The spine-tingling aromas, the delicious taste you experienced after every bite of food and how full you we’re after your second helping of dinner.

For the first couple months in college, you don’t get to experience that. You either have a meal plan card, which acts as a debit card that helps you get food, or you buy your own groceries with your OWN money.

As most of us know, college students don’t budget their money whatsoever. I tried to this semester, but it didn’t work out.

There is always some party out there you have to go to or some item you have to buy. So with the budgeting skills of a rich teenage girl during a shopping spree, you can just imagine how many trips a college student makes to the grocery store.

Some of us travel back home to wrap our moms around our fingers so they can get us groceries, but the other 40 per cent of us don’t usually have that opportunity.

So how do we manage to eat well and survive a semester of school? Well it’s simple: Thanksgiving Day.

Every student usually goes home for Thanksgiving weekend with one important goal: bring back as much food as you can. At the actual holiday dinner, we just sit there during dessert trying to figure out how much food is left over.

Depending on the type of family you have, you can either get away with a lot of food or just scraps. This year, I managed to get maybe four pounds of turkey, two whole pies, gravy and tea biscuits; talk about not having to buy groceries for a couple weeks.

As time went by, I started to get bored of eating the same old turkey sandwiches all the time. So I decided to come up with some new ways of using turkey that are delicious and not boring at all.