Brunch

Alexae S. enjoys a ham and cheese crepe for brunch. The plate, she reports, was full of grease.

Alexae is a very proud alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hailing from the department of Computer Science. Now she lives and works in Chicago and leads the coolest life of anyone I know. 

It's the Holiday Season!

This Thanksgiving, Jeanie R. feasted wtih family.

This spread looks delicious, right? I sincerely wish Thanksgiving was everyday.

If you have Thanksgiving pictures you would like to send in, it's not too late: we'll post them throughout the holiday season. P.S. I'm ready for christmas cookie pics at any time. :)

Thanks for bearing with me over the break in pictures, everyone. It's that awful, breath-holding final-paper-writing time in the semester, but I will try to keep them regular from here on out.

Food and Friends

This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for all of the wonderful food I've had in the last few weeks. It seems like there was just delicious stuff in abundance, especially this past weekend which I spent with my best girl friends in Chicago.

Sarah M. enjoys an Alaskan salmon roll at the Sushi cafe where we started off our weekend of good eats.

Brittany M. and Alexae S. share a piece of Peanut Butter Fudge cheesecake.

Chocolate pastries are one of my very favorite foods on earth and this one was no exception. It tasted even better eaten outside in downtown Chicago, on a balmy November evening.



All Ages

Peggy P. (Grandma Peggy to Jolee P., featured earlier) enjoys a beautifully decorated meal on her cruise last year. 

While on the same cruise, she also enjoyed the heck out of some bacon at breakfast.

And it looks like she helped herself to some tasty chocolate soft-serve as well. Yum! What a good role model she is!

I'm Thinkin'

Breanne T. enjoys a sandwich and curly fries from Arby's!

Encouragement

Hey everyone! One of the biggest American food days of the year is coming right up and I want to encourage anyone who celebrates Thanksgiving to try and get a picture of yourself enjoying your fav. Thanksgiving food. I would love to do a super-lengthy post-Thanksgiving post full of ladies enjoying the holiday.

Send all submissions to alotonherplate@gmail.com

And don't limit your food-eating and picture-taking to Thanksgiving! Take a picture and send it in ANY TIME!

This is me enjoying a Hardee's cheeseburger a couple of years ago while hanging out with the SJO German Club in St. Louis because I love German and I also love super processed ground beef.

Sisterhood Anyone?

After checking out A Lot On Her Plate, Amber Tamblyn (127 Hours, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Joan of Arcadia) was kind enough to share this photo.

 " I love your blog. I've attached a picture of best friend and actress Alexis Bledel and I after we attacked a chocolate fountain. We call the picture, "Two Girls, One Chocolate Fountain."

Love,
A"

Of course both ladies starred in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movies. You probably also recognize Alexis Bledel from Gilmore Girls and as Winnie Foster from Tuck Everlasting. Both are lovely and inspiring women with a lot on their plates. 

I would also like to note that Ms. Tamblyn is the first BUST cover-girl to grace the blog. I'm honored!

 

Sorority Girls Eat

Hannah H. from 4H House enjoys a Boston milkshake: a chocolate shake with an extra scoop of ice cream on top, plus some fudge and . . . Hannah? Cherry? Yum!

Hotpot

 "It's me and a friend of mine, Jackye P, eating hotpot!  It's kinda like fondue, but in hot water instead of hot oil.  It was pretty tasty, and lots of fun.  :)"

-Ashley D.

Jackye P.

Cute Hat AND Cute Food

Amber K. enjoying more street fare in Tokyo.

Beautiful Sushi

Sometimes food can really be beautiful: here is Jeanie R. with a lovely sushi display (which she totally helped destroy by eating it).

Submit, submit!

Hey ladies, keep the pictures coming! As always, you can send new submissions to alotonherplate@gmail.com. Just wanted to remind everybody/let any new followers know. :)

I've been working lately on spreading the word about the blog and have received a much appreciated helping hand from the UIUC Women's Resource Center, as well as many of you who have shared this blog with friends on facebook which I LOVE because I want to take this far beyond Champaign-Urbana. Just wanted to say thank you, so very very much.

Everybody have a beautiful week! 

NOW: Eating is a Party

A few weeks ago, NOW had a food party. Once again, Ashley's boyfriend came through with some amazing food: lasagna. :)

Anna C. enjoys the vegetarian variety. I had it, too. It was incredible.

Ava S. is having a bite of Paula Deen's Apple Butter Pumpkin Pie, which I brought.

Kristina O. had some, too.

Even though I kind of burnt the edges a little bit, I thoroughly enjoyed this pie because it is one my favorite recipes of all time. It's just like normal pumpkin pie except with a cup of apple butter. Freakin' fantastic.



Suspenders

This is my sister Sid L., eating a piece of Avanti's bread. Her suspenders are kickin'.

Volunteering Takes Food

Huong P. devours a slice of pizza at Venice Beach. This picture was taken during her Alternative Spring Break trip in 2010 where she volunteered at the AIDS Project, LA.

This year, Huong's Alternative Spring Break will involve raising awareness about domestic violence and helping The Sojourner Center. Huong is a great example of a young woman with A Lot On Her Plate, both figuratively and literally. Did you know that Generation Y spends more hours doing volunteer work than any generation ever before? Reason number ten-thousand why it's important to eat plenty of food.

If you're interested in supporting the project, look for Huong's group on the UIUC quad today where they'll be selling baked goods for $1 (and if you get some, definitely get a picture of yourself devouring food for a cause). If you're interested in getting involved in Alternative Spring Break yourself, check out the link up above or, if you're a UIUC student, head over to one of the info nights listed here.

Frosting First

Sarah M. eats the frosting off of a graduation cupcake last spring. Later, she won the title of bluest teeth. Illini frosting is awesome like that. So is eating.



S'more

I've been eating microwave s'mores like crazy lately. Love. them.

Third Place in State Needs Food

Sidney L. and Jolee P. enjoy bagels after their very successful race at state; both ladies ran three miles in under nineteen minutes. Sweet!

(Means they ran each mile faster than 6 minutes and 20 seconds which is super challenging)

Third place out of all the teams in Illinois; the girls' cross country team enjoys a pizza celebration. Everyboddddy eats.

From left to right: Chelsea B. (Ninth place finisher! Time of 18:19), Suzanne F., Sidney L., Hannah G.,
Jolee P., Tessa V., and Alyssa P. 

Pumpkin Ice Cream Ends a Day

Jeanine is an adventurer who is full of great ideas and beautiful words. And she wishes she could have pumpkin ice cream all year round. Me too.

 

"while i was taking this photo, i kept thinking how unflattering some of my outtakes were and realized that’s kinda the fucking point. i don’t owe flattering to anyone. i’m in my pajamas doing stats homework and eating ice cream. hell, it’s been the kind of day that i had to write “STATS” in big block letters on my hand to even remember it. i’m eating some pumpkin ice cream, and it’s awesome! and i want you to know how awesome it is, and that we should share this moment damnit, right?"

--Jeanine R.

Check her out:

http://juhneeeeen.tumblr.com/

A Mid-Swim Snack

Miriam K. enjoys a sandwich and some chips on a pleasant summer day! Her swimsuit makes me wish it was July again.

A Friday Beauty Eats

Welcome to the Weekend, everyone!

Jeanie R. enjoys her go-to snack, an ice cream sandwich, while walking around Washington D.C.

P.S. Let us please note that it's an even more excellent ice cream sandwich than normal, made with awesome looking chocolate-chip cookies. Wow! 

Cross Country Stars Eat

This is Suzanne F. having a scrumptious pasta dinner! Suzanne is an amazing runner with some of the strongest finishes I've ever seen, and I've been watching her run since she was in fifth grade. On Saturday, she will compete in her final high school cross country race at the Illinois State Meet, along with my sister and

several other ballers on the team.

 I have seen some runners with a lot of potential fall down in the middle of a race because they were restricting their diets and not drinking enough water. It's a very painful, heartbreaking thing to watch. And so I've always loved that my sister's team makes a point of sharing a big spaghetti dinner each week, ensuring that every lady they run with is taking care of her body before race day.

An Australian Appetite

A slightly fuzzy picture but the message is clear: Brittany M. freakin' loves Chinese food from Sydney Australia's Chinatown!

It's Important to Eat (And vote!)

In NOW, we are all about taking advantage of our right to vote. We also love a good themed cookie! Thanks to Ashley D.'s boyfriend for preparing these amazing, election day-inspired treats.

Ashley D. voted. Did you?

Ava S. got in on it, too.

Mandy W. eats her cookie carefully, the same way she chose her candidates this year.

I voted early (in spite of a certain County Clerk's best effort to keep me from it) but still got in on the eating action on election night.

A Spaghetti Kind of Girl

"I love pasta. Especially when its smothered in Sauce and Parmesan!!!!! Yum."

-Brittany K.

I used to have P.E. class with Brittany and a better time was never had in a gym.We played a mean game of ultimate frisbee, made fierce partners in volleyball, and spent lots of time talking about how much we love Cap'n Crunch's Peanut Butter Crunch. 

The Women of WPGU Eat

Laura F. of weekday afternoon and Ladies that Kick It fame enjoys a slice of pizza.

Maggie M. (Ladies that Kick It co-host) and co also partake!

Here is my fantastic co-host, Natalie! Hooray for Wednesdays, 9-12!

You can hear Aubrey on Mornings with the Girls, every weekday mornng from 9-12.

Stream these lovely DJ's live at the217.com