Going to College and Facing Starvation

"Are you hungry?"

"Yeah."

"What sounds good for lunch?"

"Uhhhh.... I don't know."

"Well then you must not be that hungry."

"No, no! I am! I'm starving! What sounds good to you?"

"I asked you."
... silence...

... 7 minutes later...

"Are you hungry?"

--repeat--

So basically this is the conversation I have almost every Saturday/Sunday with my mother. The problem in our house is basically, that no one ever knows what their hungry for OR we're all hungry for different things and can't agree on what to have sending my poor mom into a rage of having to put up with her indecisive family and trying to cook something to please everyone. But last Sunday after my mother and I's "are you hungry?" conversation she let out a sigh of exasperation and said, "What are you going to do in college?"
Me, curled up in my little nook of the couch and in an Adventure Time trance perked up my ears and said, "What do you mean?"
"How are you going to eat in college? You can never decide if your hungry and can you even cook?"
"Yes I can cook!" I said like I was offended that she didn't realize her daughter was pretty much a teenage Giada At Home. (Food Network reference) "I can make um-- I can make noodles, and rice, and ramen, and mac n' cheese, and I could probably make stew and mashed potatoes if I really wanted too..."
"So basically you can boil water and make pasta."
I had been defeated. "Yeah, I guess."
"And what do you eat for vegetables? And fruit? And you don't eat salad. What healthy things will you have?"
Then I went on to explain for about the trillionth time that I don't like lettuce because it is cold and wet and is crunchy like bugs, and that I like the taste of fruit, but not the texture, AND that I kind of like spinach and maybe next week I'll try a spinach salad. But as I got to thinking I knew that my mom was absolutely right. I'm quite picky, as well as lazy when it comes to getting up and having to feed myself, and while it's easy for me to imagine chilling in my cool college apartment and making a delicious and healthy dinner for my trendy, bestfriend roommate and I, I'm unsure of the probability that it could actually happen. So I made the decision that now I need to be more adventerous with my food and try and learn how to cook. I plan to now take notes on things when watching Food Network and then possibly try and cook it later. We'll see how this goes.

**UPDATE**--- I tried some spinach from my mom's salad the other day with some feta cheese and a weird vinagarette spritzer. It wasn't terrible. I might train myself to like it.