Have questions or comments about the dining hall foods?  Want help with current dietary issues?  Looking for how to “healthify” a recipe? 

CONTACT THE NUTRITIONIST
Kristen Rasmussen
Nutritionist and Farm to Table Facilitator
ASU Sun Devil Dining
Email: rasmussen-kristen@aramark.com Office hours: By appointment only

Did You Know?
Sun Devil Dining is Trans Free!
Downtown Polytechnic Tempe West Sustainability Contact Us Login
Cart
pizzabanner.jpg

fresh & healthy/ Tempe Campus Nutrition

FOR MENU AND NUTRITION FACTS CLICK ON A DINING HALL BELOW:

MANZY SQUARE, HASSYAMPA, PITCHFORKS

Tempe Campus Nutrition

TIPS TO PREVENT HOLIDAY WEIGHT GAIN

 

            One holiday gift that most of us do not look forward to is the gift of a few extra pounds after all of the festivities are over.  Read below for some tips on how to prevent weight gain this holiday season.   

  1. Choose your battles- We all have our holiday favorites and it’s worth it to indulge on these favorites a few times every year. 
  2. Treat the holidays as days- The holidays are supposed to be just that-days and are not meant to last the entire months of November and December.
  3. Stay active- If you get out and get moving during the holidays, it will help to boost your metabolism so that those delectable holiday calories you do eat will burn faster. 
  4. Make things from scratch- For those of you that don’t go all out in the kitchen during the holidays, I encourage you to do so. The food will probably taste better, make you proud and also burn some calories with all that hand chopping and mixing. 
  5. Look for healthy options-  Some examples include white meat over dark meat, cranberry sauce over gravy, pumpkin pie over pretty much any other pie, sweet potatoes, veggies not drenched in dressings, etc.  
  6. Watch those portions- Take even smaller portions than you normally would because there are usually a lot more items than you normally eat.

Seasonal Special - Pecans

Check out the residential restaurants for items featuring special food this season, pecans!

PECAN FUN FACTS

  • The pecan tree is the state tree of Texas
  • The name "pecan" means, "nut requiring a stone to crack"
  • Pecans are a great source of unsaturated ("good") fats, minerals and antioxidants
  • Pecans are best known in pecan pie, but are found in many traditional southern recipes from pecan crusted catfish to mushroom and pecan rice.
  • A handful of pecans a day may help to reduce cholesterol as much as some cholesterol lowering drugs
  • There are over a thousand varieties of pecans and many are named after Native American tribes such as Cheyenne, Sioux and Mohawk.

 

HAVE YOU BEEN "GRAINED"? LATELY

Engrained is a new environmentally-conscious restaurant on the second floor of the Memorial Union that features local, indigenous, delicious and sustainably procurred food.  Put some variety in your diet and try something new like their quesadilla with nopales cactus slaw or stick to a delicious stand-by like the free-range chicken caesar salad on grilled romaine.