 Hi everyone! It's Anne with another video. Today I am going to take you all to one of my favorite dining halls called Central and I'm going to be eating all of my meals there today and also just do a little what I eat in the day here at UVM, but mostly showing off the Central dining hall. This is my roommate and I walking down to Central. I live on athletic campus so it is about a 10 minute walk to Central. It was raining that day so we went to the Davis Center and this is the really fun tunnel that they have that I really like with the changing lights and here we are at Central. We just use our cat cards to get into the dining hall and then this was the dining hall in the morning. It was breakfast so it was a little bit quieter but nevertheless this gives you a little bit of an overview. They have different stations. They have for example in the morning a yogurt station, some pastries, they have bagels, fruit and yogurt and what's really great is that we have four unlimited dining halls here on campus that serve different foods every day so you can really always find something that you want to eat. This is exploration that wasn't open for breakfast but it usually has really good cultural foods and then we have our simple servings and my zone where you'll find foods that are vegan, gluten-free and made without a lot of the major allergens. We usually serve ourselves the food but because of COVID we get it served to us. This is what I had for breakfast blueberry pancakes, home fries, ham, eggs and tea and here I had just cleaned up my plate and we put it on these conveyor belts to be cleaned by the dishwashers and then a little bit later I went to Henderson's cafe and got a tea and took my class in the Davis Center and then I was off to Central again for lunch. I got an artichoke and quinoa wrap with some chips and on my way out I grabbed a vegan pumpkin chocolate chip cookie which are my favorite. So right now it's about like three o'clock and I'm getting a little bit hungry since lunch but I'm gonna wait for dinner so I'm just having some vegetable root chips from Trader Joe's they're really good. I'm just gonna do some of my village mentoring we have a virtual like village mentoring thing happening today so I'm just gonna eat these and do that and then I'll be heading to dinner around like five or six. So here's Megan and I grabbing something to drink I absolutely love this machine it makes me feel like I'm in the future. Just to talk a little bit more about the dining halls I think what's really great is that we have composting at all of our dining halls UVM compost which is awesome and we're also dedicated to providing local ecologically sound, fair and humane food and in 2018 we committed that 20% of our food would meet these qualifications by 2020 and we actually surprised that goal in 2017. So I think it's really awesome to see a university care so much about where their food is coming and how they're feeding their students. This is just my roommate and I joking around a little bit as we're sitting back at our table but here you can see more people have now joined for dinner and how the spacing is with COVID. For dinner I had this Thanksgiving inspired meal with ham, potatoes and peas and a really good salad and my roommate had a bean burger. So I've gone back from dinner I've just been doing some homework for a little bit and I'm going to eat one of the vegan pumpkin chocolate chip cookies from the dining halls. They are so good they're literally my favorite cookie ever it's always such a treat when they have them so I just want to thank you all for seeing what I eat in a day when I go to the central dining hall and I can't wait to see you all in the next video. I also just wanted to add what a great social time the dining halls are I truly feel like I've solidified my friendships at the dining halls which is something that I think is so special that UVN is able to do with their dining experience. I also wanted to add that we have things called eco-wear where you can take food out of the dining hall. This year it's like all pick up kind of like a pick up food service but then you can have really fun picnics which is what Megan and I were doing in these clips. Thank you for watching and I'll see you on the next one.