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Beginning in the 2009/2010 academic year, UCI Hospitality & Dining is proud to announce the addition of kosher meals to our Residential Dining program. Kosher meals will be available seven days a week upon request at Pippin Commons, located in the Middle Earth Housing Neighborhood. Enjoy a full kosher menu including Egg and Cheese Breakfast Burritos, Southwest Veggie Wraps, Smoked Salmon Sandwiches, Spinach Feta Pasta Salad, Bagel, Roasted Chicken, and Pot Roast. Also featured are traditional dishes including Babaganoush, Hummus with Pita Chips, and Bagels with Lox. Kosher meals will be available for one deductions from your block meal plan, or the cash equivalent. If you're interested in Kosher meals, please contact Pippin's Chef Ryan at (949) 824-2168 or Mesa's Chef Charley at (949) 824-2148 to plan your menu.
Team BCs was the winning team from the scavenger hunt. Congrats to Kristina G. for winning our big raffle prize. Thank you Bboys Anonymous and Artisun for performing at the victory party. We also had KROQ, Wahoo's, Bear Mountain, Sector 9, and our culinary chefs in attendance with tons of giveaways and free food. Join us next time for some more FREE fun.
FOOD related? UCI has made a change in their carbon foodprint by building awareness with patrons dining at our residential dining locations. Look for our identifiers to make a difference in your carbon FOODprint by eating low carbon foodprint entrees!
What can you do to reduce your FOODprint?
- Replace red meat & dairy with chicken, fish, or eggs at least one day a week. On average, red meat is 150% more GHG-intensive than chicken or fish.
- Eat lower on the food chain: vegetables, fruits, and grains
- Taste, don’t waste. Reducing your food waste also lowers our carbon footprint
- Buy local and organic foods
 RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over a 10-week period, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate. With each week’s reports and rankings, participating schools watch how their results fluctuate against other schools and use this to rally their campus communities to reduce and recycle more.
Contest ends March 28, 2009.
Support UCI and your environment by recycling your cardboard, plastic bottles, and cans on campus.
http://www.recyclemaniacs.org
Peter's Pick is a symbol to help you identify healthy and nutritious choices on campus.
Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005, specifically:
Less than 10 percent of the food's calories are from saturated fatty acids Total fat intake less than 35 percent of calories, with most fats coming from sources of polyunsaturated and monunsaturated fatty acids, such as fish, nuts and vegetable oils
Each item has less than 100 mg of cholesterol (recommendation is 300 mg/day)
Each item contains less than 800 mg of sodium (recommendations are less than 2300 mg/day (approximately 1 teaspoon of salt)
Item is either rich in fiber (greater than or equal to 2g) or includes fruits, vegetables and/or whole grains
Additionally as recommended by the Institute of Medicine, Peter's Picks have less than 25% of total calories coming from sugar.
 Guidelines are driven from Dietary Guidelines for Americans; you can read more about them here.
Recommendations for cholesterol and sodium were calculated by taking the daily recommendation and dividing by three. Considering you would have three meals per day and dividing the recommendations throughout those meals.
For more information on how to read a food label, click here.
*All Peter's Picks are per serving Locations
Currently Peter's Pick is only available at the Zot N Go convenience center.
More locations coming soon.
Email Emily Bell with questions or for more information
The Peter's Pick Program is a collaboration between UCI Hospitality & Dining and Health Education. Visit health.uci.edu here.
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