Sonali Patel

So, if you were one of the lucky few mobbed by us in the GSU on Halloween, you are well acquainted with UNREAL Candy. If not, you might have seen it in CVS on your trip down the candy aisle last night....I mean wait what? That never happened; first rule of fight club. Really, though, if you don't know about UNREAL, you will soon because it's popping up everywhere.

Founded by a BU alum, UNREAL is on a mission to unjunk candy and make it a healthy, great tasting alternative to other name brand sweets. Their candies have no corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, artificial flavors, synthetic colors or genetically modifed ingredients. Instead, they use double the cacao, more peanuts, real milk, cane sugar, and organic palm fruit oil. I know it's hard to believe that there is a candy out there with no artificial ingredients that still tastes great, but we also thought that Lindsay Lohan was one of the most promising actresses of our generation and would die after a  with her title of "America's Sweetheart" intact. And it really does tastes the same, and knowing that it's unjunked makes it better. You know how wearing lingerie just makes you feel stronger and more powerful, even if you're not planning on any sexytime? Eating food that you know is all-natural just automatically makes it taste even better. UNREAL has, on average, 30% less sugar, 60% more fiber and 250% more protein than the leading competitors. With each bar just under 200 calories, it's a perfect midday snack or dessert that you don't have to feel guilty about. And although healthier candy is usually only found in health food stores, UNREAL is in CVS, Staples, Ralph's and other big retailers at the same price as other candies.

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For most of us, the hilarious videos we post on Youtube garner maybe 50 views. For Alexa Galloway, every month an average of 500, sometimes even 1,000, people see her videos. Alexa, a freshman in COM studying journalism, is one of the cast members of COMlife--the online documentary series that follows three Boston University students in the College of Communication. It’s ultimately an inside look for prospective students or others that want to know what it’s like to be a COM student at BU, and live in Boston. In addition to COMlife, Alexa plays basketball on an intramural team, is an active contributor to BUTV, works 4 days a week, serves as a COM Ambassador to the class of 2016, and always finds time to eat her way around Boston. We asked Alexa some questions about her experience as a COMlife star. Not satisfied with the conversation, and being the astute journalist that she is, Alexa took the trouble of adding a few of her own (very hard-hitting) questions to the end of the interview.

Watch Alexa's COMlife adventures at: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL37AE02C9A86F713B&feature=plcp or on the BU COM website: http://www.bu.edu/com. 

Name: Charlotte Parker
Hometown: Morristown, NJ
Class: 2015
School: CGS
Sign: Capricorn
 
Claim to fame:
On her blog www.makemetasty.blogspot.com, Charlotte provides recipes and tips to make delicious meals using different ingredients from the dining hall in an innovative way.
 
How did you come up with the idea for this blog?
I was sitting in the dining hall with my friend one day talking to her about it and telling her my recipes when she told me that I should make a blog. Nowadays it's so easy to start one so that night I just decided to make it and it's just taken off from there.
 
What has the response been so far?
It's been a really great response. About a week after I started it I was so surprised because it had like 1000 views. A lot of them were probably me, but still that's a lot! I have random people coming up to me telling me that they love my blog, and I'm just like how do you even know about it?! And I'm in DG so I posted it on the Delta Gamma Facebook page and the amount of people that liked it was amazing. I've started getting special requests too, like for vegetarian recipes, and that's really cool.
 
When making new recipes do you specifically decide what you want to make or is just random?
Well, it's hard because it all depends on what's in the dining hall. It's a little bit limiting, so sometimes it's just a random idea, and sometimes it's premeditated.
 
What's your favorite recipe off of your blog?