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Your Guide to Ames’ Groceries
Being in college is great. You get new freedoms and can make more of your own choices. If you want to go down to the dorm kitchen at 2 a.m. and try to make a pie with bacon as the main ingredient, no one is going to stop you. But where do you buy the bacon from?
Restaurant Reveal
Have you heard of The Café? Dublin Bay? Or even Vesuvius? Last year at this time I certainly hadn’t! Being a transfer student, I was unaware of the great restaurants in the Ames area but was interested in giving them a try.
Fill Your Fridge: Dorm Style
Living in the dorms as a freshman is an entirely new experience. You have to do your own laundry, wash your own dishes and do your own grocery shopping.
Introducing: Conversations Oak Elm’s Dining Center
Conversations, the newly renovated dining center located in Oak Elm, is unique to the other dining centers on campus.
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The Freshman Fifteen
Wouldn’t you like to know what the freshman fifteen means before you hear about it from your family doctor after the fact? The freshman fifteen (or 5, 50, or -10) are the weight changes that students sometimes experience due to changes in their routine as they transition to college.
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Must Eat: The Grove Café
The Grove Café, open with the same name since 1949 is a popular breakfast joint in downtown Ames, on Main Street. Although the restaurant has an extensive menu they are known mostly for one thing, their famous pancake.
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Is it a Bad Egg?
Eggs are nature’s perfect food, containing every amino acid and almost every nutrient essential for life. They provide emulsifiers for dressings, binding agents for baked goods, foams for meringues, and so much more.
