{"id":2322,"date":"2016-04-27T11:45:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T15:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2016-04-27T09:56:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:56:45","slug":"eliza-thank-you-trader-joes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2016\/04\/27\/eliza-thank-you-trader-joes\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliza: Thank you, Trader Joe\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Since moving into an apartment at the beginning of this semester, two things have become evident to me: I didn\u2019t appreciate my dining plan the way I should have, and Trader Joe\u2019s may or may not be the promised land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My appreciation for Trader Joe\u2019s comes largely out of respect for the way it has provided me with things to eat other than Annie\u2019s mac &amp; cheese (although I will never lie about the deep sense of love I have for that gift from heaven).\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong, I love to cook \u2013 I find it relaxing and enjoyable \u2013 unfortunately between classes, work, exams, papers, and my rigorous Netflix schedule, the time isn\u2019t always there. \u00a0I quickly found my saving grace in Brookline, thankfully only a short 20 minute walk from StuVi.<\/p>\n<p>So, this is it.\u00a0 My shout out to the frozen foods and snacks sections at Trader Joes, thanks for getting me through this semester with semi-proper nutrition and my sanity.\u00a0 Late nights on the 26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0floor of StuVi2 wouldn\u2019t have been the same without Inner Peas and mandarin sparkling water.\u00a0 Getting home late from club meetings or work would have killed me if not for frozen burritos and pineapple salsa.\u00a0 Afternoons writing papers would have been much less enjoyable if not for frozen peanut butter cups (shoutout to my roommate for always keeping them stocked) and pre-brewed iced coffee. \u00a0It\u2019s been a semester of the books, for the books, and by the books, and I couldn\u2019t have done it without snacks. Here\u2019s to study period and finals week, I can\u2019t wait to snack my way through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since moving into an apartment at the beginning of this semester, two things have become evident to me: I didn\u2019t appreciate my dining plan the way I should have, and Trader Joe\u2019s may or may not be the promised land. My appreciation for Trader Joe\u2019s comes largely out of respect for the way it has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2016\/04\/27\/eliza-thank-you-trader-joes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eliza: Thank you, Trader Joe\u2019s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44417],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}