Nutrition

Eating Healthy

Providing you with healthy options is something your dining team proudly does every day. We help you select delicious, nutritious and satisfying meals, snacks and desserts by highlighting well-balanced menu choices and providing nutritional information and tips to help you make choices that fit your needs.

Meet Your Dietitian

Lucas Flaherty, RDN, LDN, is available for complimentary consultations on topics such as:

• Food allergies, celiac disease, diabetes, or other special dietary needs
• Eating healthy on campus
• Vegan and vegetarian nutrition
• Weight management
• Campus Presentations
• Sports performance and fitness

Lucas' approach to healthy eating does not revolve around diets or calorie counting. His job as a dietitian is to simplify the way we think about food and how to use it in the most therapeutic ways.

Contact him at Lucas.Flaherty@sodexo.com

Food Allergies

We take pride in serving you wholesome ingredients, preparing recipes accurately and providing nutritional analysis and ingredient statements through our online menus and nutrition calculator. From our general manager to our front line servers, we work carefully to address food allergies, celiac diets, or other special dietary needs.

We want to meet one-on-one with anyone who has individual dining needs to ensure that your dining experience is safe, delicious, and social. If you have a food allergy/special diet concern and wish to meet with an AllerTrain Certified Blugold Dining staff member please email us directly at dining@uwec.edu.

Simple Servings

Simple Servings is our allergen-safe, dining option for those with food allergies or gluten intolerance. This station provides safe and appetizing food choices for our students with food allergies, gluten intolerance, and those who prefer

simple food.

All foods offered at the Simple Serving station are naturally free of milk, eggs, wheat, soy, shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts and gluten.

Simple Servings proactively address most of the ingredients that account for 90% of all food-allergy reactions: milk, sesame, eggs, wheat, soy, shellfish, peanuts, and tree nuts. The 8th FDA specified

allergen, fin fish, is included in the offer. However it is only ever included in ‘obvious’ fish dishes- whole pieces of fish. No fish sauce etc. is ever allowed at Simple Servings. Simple Servings also recognizes the current skyrocketing demand for gluten-free foods, which certain students may require out of medical necessity (celiac disease) or simply by choice. Simple Servings is a gluten-free station.

This station is located at Riverview Café which is the primary dining location for students on a meal plan who live on campus.

Simple Zone

Simple Zone area is available for all students at Riverview Cade. This area is next to Simple Servings and is a side station free of tree nut, peanut and gluten-containing ingredients and products.

Mindful

Mindful is Sodexo's health & wellness approach that helps you make healthy choices second nature!

Locate a healthier choice! All Mindful offerings meet stringent nutritional criteria based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Each Mindful item is limited in calories, has fewer than 30% of calories from fat, fewer than 10% of calories from saturated fat, and is restricted in sodium and cholesterol.