Healthy Eating
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. We've made a commitment to use easy-to-understand nutritional labeling so you can make informed food choices, and if you ever have a question about food ingredients, preparation or cooking information, please don't hesitate to ask for assistance.
Meet the Dietitian
Our Registered Dietitian, Susan Hurd, RDN, LDN, adds another dimension to our dining program by working with our campus community to encourage healthy lifestyles and to help individuals become more comfortable in their dining environment at Westminster College. She has a passion for leading a healthy lifestyle and empowering people of all ages to reach their healthiest potential through food and nutrition.
Sue works closely with our team to ensure the health and safety of our students with medical needs. She is a Certified AllerTrainer providing ongoing food allergy education to our dining team to help ensure safe and delicious foods for our customers with food allergies and Celiac disease.
Sue is a click away; you may contact her via email and follow her on Instagram campusdietitian_sue.
Simple Servings
Station offers food made without gluten and 8 of the top 9 allergens (peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, wheat, milk, soy, eggs & sesame).
Food Allergies
We take pride in serving our wholesome ingredients, preparing recipes accurately and providing nutritional analysis and ingredient statements. From our general manager to our front-line servers, we work carefully to address food allergies, celiac diets, or their special dietary needs. We want to meet one-on-one with anyone who has individually dining needs to ensure that your dining experience is safe, delicious, and social. For students with medical conditions impact their ability to dine well on campus, we strongly encourage a conversation with our Registered Dietitian, Executive Chef, or our General Manager. In many instances, our dining team can easily assist with special needs. For more detailed information about dining on campus with food allergies, please visit our allergy-specific page.
Occasionally, Dining Services cannot meet a student's medical needs within normal service. We may require additional medical documentation to enable us to develop a more specific meal plan accommodation. In this situation, we ask that the student contact the Westminster College Disability Resources. Together, our departments work to serve our students with medical needs related to dining on campus. To contact Faith Craig, email craigfa@westminster.edu or call 724-946-7192.
Menu Allergens
Our menu system labels for the top 9 allergens, gluten, plus mustard and sulfites. Westminster College Dining is a proud member of the FARE (Food Allergy Research and Education) database, to promote allergy awareness and improve the quality of life for students with food allergies. Find our profile in FARE's database here: Westminster College Food Allergy Information Fare. More information can be found on the FARE website at Preparing for College.
While the Simple Servings program is designed to allow customers to have an easy way to avoid gluten and allergens, our chef still want to meet all of our customers with special food needs. Knowing about customer preferences and limitations allows us to plan our menu to best meet everyone’s needs. Contact Ryan Trask, Galbreath Manager at Ryan.Trask@sodexo.com or call 724-946-7704, Jim Nescot, General Manager at nescotjd@westminster.edu or call 724-946-6312 or Susan Hurd, Regional Dietitian at Susan.Hurd@sodexo.com if you have food allergy questions.
Mindful
Mindful is Sodexo's health & wellness approach that helps you make healthy choices second nature! We are committed to creating healthy environments for our customers. The result of this initiative is an approach that focuses on transparency of ingredients, delicious food, satisfying portions and clarity in message so that you can make Mindful choices.
Mindful: Look for the Mindful icon to indulge in the healthy and delicious items offered at each meal. These menus meet the strictest Dietary Guidelines for Americans, without sacrificing flavor, texture or presentation. Each meal part is limited in calories, has few than 30% of calories as fat, fewer than 10% of calories as saturated fat, and is restricted in sodium, and cholesterol.
Look for these nutrition icons on the foods being served on your campus to help you meet your dietary needs or desires. If you need assistance finding the right types of foods for you, please reach out to your on-campus dining manager or chef. If you have additional dietary questions, please contact us so we can help!
Vegan: Dishes that do not contain any ingredients that came from animals.
Vegetarian: Dishes that do not contain meat or fish but may, or may not, contain dairy, eggs, and/or honey.
Plant-Based: meals only use ingredients from plants such as: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes and nuts. They may also include honey and sugar.
We work closely with local produce distributors to maximize the fruits and vegetables purchased from local farms. We also purchase from local dairies and participate in farm to school initiatives.
MY FITNESS PAL
We're proud partner with myfitnesspal provide enhanced nutritional information for our dining customers but will give them an opportunity to track their personal nutrition and fitness goals.
Dining customers can take advantage of this exciting new program by creating an account on the MyFitnessPal.com or by downloading the free app on your mobile device.
It's easy to use the keep track of your eating to either achieve your weight management or healthier eating practices.
Locate the item, scan the bar code with your smart phone and the nutritional information pops up. Then you add the item to you MyFitnessPal daily diary. The diary will automatically calculate how many calories you have left for the remainder of the day.