SoCal eating tour

I spent four days of spring break on a bus with 44 high school students traveling to southern California to visit college campuses. I probably learned more about the freakish amount of food I could and would consume on long bus journeys than about the schools. Be prepared for the rundown:

Monday
-Two Quaker Oats apple cinnamon flavored cereal bars, one Fugi apple, one Nature Valley granola bar
-Lunch at UC Merced: toasted turkey club sandwich and a salad
-Crunchy Cheetos, Fritos, some Asian pastry with green tea filling, a cookie
-Dinner from El Pollo Loco: chicken, two corn tortillas, strange tasting beans, rice, steamed vegetables, salad
-Another cookie

Tuesday
-Breakfast: onion bagel with cream cheese, cantaloupe and honeydew melon, strawberry yogurt, ecinacea tea
-Lunch at Cal Poly Pomona: three beef tacos with rice and beans, a pink colored drink, yet another cookie
-Two over priced Twix bars from a vending machine at UCLA
-Dinner at Buca Di Beppo in Santa Monica: caprese salad, a very fishy Ceasar salad, margherita pizza, spaghetti with meat sauce, fettuccine alfredo, green beans, chicken parmesan, cheesecake, lemonade
-Even more cookies, this time from Dee Dee Reese

Wednesday
-Breakfast: onion bagel with cream cheese, scrambled eggs, two bites of corned beef hash, cantaloupe and honeydew melon, strawberry yogurt, ecinacea tea
-Nature Valley granola bar
-Lunch at Pitzer College: salad, grilled vegetable sandwich, more cantaloupe and honeydew, brownie, orange juice
-More cookies, Handi Snack cheese and crackers
-Dinner at Tokyo Wako in Long Beach: mushroom soup, salad, grilled zucchini and bean sprouts, rice, scallops, peach ice cream, lemonade
-Another Dee Dee Reese cookie
-Late night in LA with Jeanne: French fries from McDonald’s on our way to the bar, vodka tonics at the Short Stop, 99 cent tacos from Jack in the Box on the drive back to the hotel

Thursday
-Breakfast: onion bagel with cream cheese, cantaloupe and honeydew melon, strawberry yogurt, ecinacea tea
-Lunch at Carl’s Jr. along the 5: Chicken club sandwich, fries, lemon-up
-A Fugi apple, Gardettos snack mix, two halves of a cookie

* I got back to San Francisco at about four o’clock Thursday afternoon and didn’t have anything to eat until one the next afternoon.