Instant Messaging and Meal Plans!

I'm very grateful for Instant Messaging! I think I am conversing more with my son now that he is away at college than when he lived at home. Tonight we had a very lengthy IM conversation on the Meal Plan he is using. He is on the 19 meal plan (3 meals M-F and 2 on Saturday, during specified meal zones), which includes $95 Dining dollars that can be used any time. Sean is finding it challenging to eat only during the meal zones. He is used to being able to graze whenever he wants. He would like to switch his meal plan to "unlimited" so that he can eat whenever he wants (about $130 more per semester with $130 dining dollars)--it is too late to do that for this semester, but we will consider it for next semester. However, I did encourage him to eat breakfast--there are so many choices! I actually showed him how to navigate to the menu for specific days for specific dining halls--a computer task he is more than capable of doing, if he only realized that he could! To me it would be such a luxury to show up for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner and not have to plan, buy, cook and clean. Just show up and select what I want to eat from many choices.