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
Samantha Matt MS, RDN, LDN is available for complimentary consultations on topics such as:
- Food allergies management and support for new and/or current students
- Special diet accommodation requests
- Nutrition education & guidance
- Dining hall tours
- Nutrition and wellness programming
- Sports nutrition
- Counseling for students and faculty/staff
Click here to schedule a consultation or contact Samantha directly at samantha.matt@drake.edu!
Food Allergy
***Talk to Us about Your Food Allergies and Diet Needs! ***
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, please call or send us a note using the feedback form.
Simple Servings
The Simple Servings Station in Hubbell Dining features foods that are free of the top allergens, including: milk, eggs, wheat, soy, shellfish, peanuts, sesame, tree nuts and gluten.
Simple Zone
The Simple Zone area in Hubbell Dining is completely free of nuts & gluten items as well and features a toaster and microwave to be used exclusively with allergen-free items.
Hubbell North also offers gluten-free dining options as well by request.
Dietitian's Choice
Look for the "Dietitian's Choice" label throughout our dining areas for the healthiest options and favorites that our campus dietitian recommends.
Vegan/Vegetarian
We have a variety of vegan and vegetarian options available throughout our dining locations.
Hubbell Dining Hall is proud to offer the Sprouts Vegan platform: a 100% vegan station offering completely plant-based fare for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Located in Hubb South.
Contact our dietitian for more information.
Mindful
Mindful offerings meet stringent nutritional criteria based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Each meal part is limited in calories, has fewer than 30% of calories as fat, fewer than 10 % of calories as saturated fat, and is restricted in sodium, and cholesterol. Chefs in our test kitchen develop recipes to meet these criteria in a delicious fashion!
Look for the Mindful icon to indulge in the healthy and delicious items offered at each meal.