Food at WP

Or really, just check out the Facebook page. They post a picture of the weekly menus. It will give you an idea of the variety at each meal.
 
There are a few things you can constantly rely on at the mess hall. Fish, vegan options, salad, and some sort of overcooked meat. Sometimes there's spicy chicken or empanada and that's pretty good, I personally like the scallops, very rarely but highly sought-after are the pizza, lobster, and holiday dinner nights. Mess hall pizza is very doughy and not much sauce, but pizza is pizza. Lobster is not cooked very well but lobster is lobster. Holiday dinner is either an overcooked steak and scalloped potatoes and apple cider, or something really good. Otherwise, the chinese food is pretty bad, the chicken breast is pretty bad, the vegan options are pretty bad, steamed veggies are pretty bad. Ordering out is okay, but not good. No good chinese food around here, but the mexican food and pizza/Italian places are pretty good. Food is something to complain about here but it shouldn't be the deciding factor as to why you want to come. That said, anticipate crappy food and look forward to eating good food on leave.
 
seriously?? I always thought every meal had to be eaten in that massive mess hall all together and you only had 20 mins to finish. Guess West Point may not be that bad after all :D
Covid changed that for a while.
 
In Special Operations SERE we were dumped in the fields for the evasion phase on a Wednesday. It was REALLY cold out, getting down below 0 F at night. There was NO food. Even the cornfields were picked dry by deer and other animals. My team and I got so hungry we resorted to looking for roadkill on the side of roads. No luck, but we did find a Wendy's bag with some packages of ketchup.
On a Sunday we were captured and put in the POW camp. On Monday we were given our first meal, a handful of rice and a minnow. I wolfed mine down- it was no different from what I ate when I was assigned to the Korean Army for a couple of weeks. The SF captain next to me couldn't eat his as I guess he was a picky eater and just looking at it made him gag. I surreptitiously offered my hand and he gave his to me. In a real POW situation, I'm not so sure he would have survived.
not the same, but at the end of wilderness training at Sere, they gave them all hotdogs. My son who hasn't touched a hotdog in 22 years scarfed it down.
 
You can start following the mess hall now on Facebook! Follow the USMA Cadet Mess Hall. Lots of pictures and menus.

Also, after Beast you can order food to be delivered from local restaurants or pick up food from Grant Hall. You will be fine and you will have a salary for any food you order, but really, the mess hall usually does ok. They had a very hard time during the summer and into the fall because of staffing shortages and COVID19 restrictions but things are significantly better now.
I didn't find anything Facebook- but I did find everything (pics, menus) you mentioned on Instagram.
 
USMA has lots of food choices - much more than back in the early '80s. I recall pickier people turning up their noses b/c Mom was a super cook back home, but not one of those picky eaters ever starved! Plus it made things easier for a billy goat like me!
 
Gotta weigh in...At West Point or away...as long as you are active duty...best to consider food from here on out as calorie intake at best. Sometimes it's going to be great (especially if you find yourself at an air force base) or not so great (just about 6 months on mres/trats while deployed). But I will say.... what I got out of my time in service far and away outweighed a cold mre ham omelet! Best of luck!
 
This is an old post but to elaborate, during the academic year you get to take as long as you like to eat so long as you don’t have places to be. Mandatory meals you are required to sit down for a meal for a certain amount of time and then you can leave, although upperclassmen can get away with not showing up at mandatory breakfast, it’s really just enforced on the plebes cuz we have table duties.
 
We sponsored a USNA mid, who, throughout his 4 years in and out of our house, was never seen to eat a vegetable or fruit other than a potato or corn chip or a glass of OJ. We don’t say anything to mids about eating choices, just offer good food and healthy snacks and treat them as adults who can choose. Fast forward, he met a wonderful young woman who pretty much said she wanted him around for the long haul, and if he wasn’t going to look after his health and make better choices, she wasn’t sure if she could deal with that. He now eats salads, vegetables, fruit in all forms, and has a hard time remembering why he was picky.
I had a similar conversation with a young lady about my smoking. She is now my wife and I haven’t had a cigarette for over 30 years.
 
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