2008 Woodie Awards
Breakfast offerings can mean healthy eating
By: Colleen Fitzgibbons
Issue date: 9/29/08 Section: Campus
As the old saying goes, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
University dining halls abide to this by providing an array of breakfast options for students, and now the Wendy's in the Union is serving breakfast, too. But is a fast food breakfast really a healthy choice?
Assistant Manager Stephanie Harman of the Wendy's in the Union said they are just reacting to the trend.
"Of course Wendy's always wants to get into what everyone else is into," she said. "Everyone else has breakfast so why not Wendy's?"
The new breakfast menu includes a variety of foods: biscuits, sausage and gravy, chicken, Frescuits, egg-and-cheese sandwich, steak-and-egg sandwich, French toast sticks, burritos, hash browns, muffins and more.
Harman said out of all the choices, the healthiest choice would probably be a biscuit with egg and cheese.
Jane Crandall, the Nutrition Counselor on campus, on the other hand said she would disagree because she said while it is in fact lower in calories, the biscuit itself is high in fat and sodium.
"Those are the kinds of things you might want to stay away from," Crandall said.
However, Crandall said the sausage-and-egg burrito or the steak-and-egg sandwich would be the best choices on the breakfast menu.
While there are a few healthy choices on the menu, Crandall said there aren't enough choices.
"It lacks variety," she said. "It should have some kind of a yogurt or fruit offering."
Wendy's may not have a wide variety of healthy food choices, but the University has high standards for foods served to the students.
"For all of our breakfast offerings we offer whole-grain and lower fat options," said Daria Blachowski-Dreyer, the nutrition initiatives manager on campus.
Blachowski-Dreyer said there is a variety of healthier options students can choose from for breakfast.
She said yogurt bars, cooked cereals, turkey sausage, a variety of fruit, hard-boiled eggs and more options are available to students by University Dining Services.
University dining halls abide to this by providing an array of breakfast options for students, and now the Wendy's in the Union is serving breakfast, too. But is a fast food breakfast really a healthy choice?
Assistant Manager Stephanie Harman of the Wendy's in the Union said they are just reacting to the trend.
"Of course Wendy's always wants to get into what everyone else is into," she said. "Everyone else has breakfast so why not Wendy's?"
The new breakfast menu includes a variety of foods: biscuits, sausage and gravy, chicken, Frescuits, egg-and-cheese sandwich, steak-and-egg sandwich, French toast sticks, burritos, hash browns, muffins and more.
Harman said out of all the choices, the healthiest choice would probably be a biscuit with egg and cheese.
Jane Crandall, the Nutrition Counselor on campus, on the other hand said she would disagree because she said while it is in fact lower in calories, the biscuit itself is high in fat and sodium.
"Those are the kinds of things you might want to stay away from," Crandall said.
However, Crandall said the sausage-and-egg burrito or the steak-and-egg sandwich would be the best choices on the breakfast menu.
While there are a few healthy choices on the menu, Crandall said there aren't enough choices.
"It lacks variety," she said. "It should have some kind of a yogurt or fruit offering."
Wendy's may not have a wide variety of healthy food choices, but the University has high standards for foods served to the students.
"For all of our breakfast offerings we offer whole-grain and lower fat options," said Daria Blachowski-Dreyer, the nutrition initiatives manager on campus.
Blachowski-Dreyer said there is a variety of healthier options students can choose from for breakfast.
She said yogurt bars, cooked cereals, turkey sausage, a variety of fruit, hard-boiled eggs and more options are available to students by University Dining Services.
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Deborah Lisk
posted 9/29/08 @ 6:24 PM EST
I believe that the article is not written fairly. The nutritionist was only consulted about the menu at Wendy's. What about the offerings at the Falcon's Nest and the Sundial? They are offering many of the same type of items that Wendy's has. (Continued…)
Sarah Betz
posted 9/29/08 @ 7:27 PM EST
As an employee of Wendy's, and a student who patronizes the Falcon's Nest & Sundial for breakfast foods as well as Wendy's, I'd like to just say that the 'healthy' food that UDS offers is nasty. (Continued…)
Eric Leu
posted 9/30/08 @ 11:50 AM EST
I agree with Deb in thinking the article was written unfairly biased toward dining services. I feel that it is not good journalism for the article to be written in such a way that it unfairly bashes wendy's in an attempt to make dining services look better. (Continued…)
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