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Fun and effective drinking games:

For serious drinking gamers only

 

By Allie Davison, Staff Writer

rinking games are fun in
any drinking situation.
Need to break the ice?

Drinking game! Chilling at the pub?
Drinking game! Bored at a party?
Drinking game! Having fun at a
party? You’re probably playing a
drinking game!

Basically, all of your subpar
social drinking situations can be
solved by drinking games. And
trust me, there’s a game for any
situation. Here are three to try, each
depending on the number of people
in your company.

The group game (three or more
people)

King’s Cup is probably the

ultimate drinking game. It’s fun, it’s
interactive, and it’s defiantly sure

to get you hammered. The more
people the better in this game, so
invite your friends, family, and even
a few strangers to this one!

What you need: A deck of
cards, an empty cup, and a full
glass in every player’s hands

How to play: Place the empty
cup in the centre of the table, and
fan the cards out in a circle around
it. Each person takes a turn drawing
a card, and each card has a different
meaning. Whenever a King is
drawn, the player who drew the
card pours some of their drink into
the cup in the middle of the table
(the “King’s Cup”). The player who
draws the fourth King must drink
the King’s cup! And then, because
you’re having SO MUCH FUN, you
start another round.

To find out what each of
the cards mean, simply Google
“King’s Cup Rules” and you'll find
countless variations of the game (all

excellent, I’m sure).

The terrible two (two or three
people tops)

Higher lower is a super fun
game to get the night started. It’s
easy to learn, and fun to play, but
the more you play the harder it
gets.

What you need: A deck
of cards, at least one friend to
play with, and a drink for each
participant.

How to play: This is the
simplest game ever—all you have
to do is remember the order. Pick
someone to be the dealer and the
player. Have the dealer draw 10
cards, and make sure to not let the
player see them. The dealer and
player must agree if the Ace is
high or low. Then the dealer draws
the first card, and asks the player
“higher or lower?” The player
guesses: if they are right, the dealer
draws the next card and asks again.
Once the player guesses wrong,
the dealer flips the cards over and

 

College Cooking

Vivacious and vegan

By Joel Mackenzie, Contributor

Healthy eating doesn’t have to be about
giving up flavour, starving oneself,

or spending a lot of money. With a

bit of work, it can be about creating
unique food and feeling fully satisfied
while saving money. College Cooking
focuses on spending less money on
food and providing nutritious eating
information for healthy, satisfying
recipes.

diet, meaning one that involves

not using any products coming
from an animal, since the start of
this year. Cheap, interesting vegan
foods aren’t exactly plentiful in
most stores, so I’ve been forced to
do a lot of my own cooking. But it
hasn’t been a pain; it has led me to
learn so much about both cooking
and healthy eating. The recipes
included in this column won't be
solely vegan. Whenever possible,
alternative, non-vegan ingredients
will be provided with their vegan
counterparts, to suit a wide variety
of tastes. Although, I completely
support anyone who is willing to
try a well-planned vegan diet for
health or any other of the many
reasons to do so.

This week, instead of a recipe,
V'll start off with a bit of information
about vegan diets.

One of the most common

[e« been following a vegan

concerns about vegan diets is that
they cannot provide a sufficient
amount of protein. Vegan protein
sources are plentiful, though
different from animal-based ones.
The building blocks of protein are
amino acids. Very few vegetable
sources, like soy and quinoa,
contain all of the essential amino
acids our bodies need to synthesize
protein. Eating vegan therefore
involves eating many different
sources of protein in order to get
all of the essential amino acids
required. These sources don’t need
to be taken in all at once, though.
When the body receives too many
of one kind of amino acid, it

stores them while waiting for the
other ones. So as long as many
different sources are consumed,
including beans, nuts, whole grains,
vegetables, and fruits (which can
contain small amounts of protein),
the body’s amino acid requirements
are easily satisfied, and protein can
be synthesized.

Another common concern
about a vegan diet is its ability to
provide adequate vitamins and
minerals, most notably calcium,
vitamin D, vitamin B12, and iron.
All of one’s required calcium can
come from vegetables. The mineral
is particularly prevalent in leafy
green vegetables, but also in many
others. One problem with this is the
amount of leafy vegetables required

to meet daily calcium intakes: they
don’t provide too many calories,
but some people simply find it
annoying or boring to have to eat
that much. Calcium is also best
absorbed in the body when taken
with vitamin D, which is tough

to find naturally in either animal
or vegetable sources. It is easiest,
therefore, to supplement these
vitamins with a fortified vegetable
milk beverage, such as almond or
rice milk. Vitamin B12 is the only
vitamin that cannot be found in
vegetables, and must therefore be
supplemented; luckily, it is also
found often in these veggie milks.
Iron requirements can be easily met
in a well-planned vegan diet, as it
is found in nuts, legumes, beans,
and whole grains: all staples of the
diet. Though, if one does require
more for any reason, it can be
supplemented as well.

With these differences, vegan
meals must be changed in structure
from traditional ones. Vegetable
proteins typically either come with
lots of fats, like nuts and seeds, or
lots of carbohydrates, like beans
and legumes. If one gets all of
one’s protein from fatty sources,
then one would consume too much
fat. This is why low-fat beans and
legumes should be made primary
sources of protein. But these cannot
be served on a plate in the same
way as meat. Vegan plates must

begins drawing again with the
cards in the same order. The player
drinks with every wrong guess. All
you have to do is get through the 10
cards with no wrong guesses, and if
you get it all right first round then
the dealer must drink all of their
drink. Switch it up once you get it
all right!

Solo drinking: no longer just
depressing (Just you, baby)

How to play: If you find
yourself alone on a Saturday night,
with only your bottle for company,
all is not lost. Just whip out your
awesome VHS collection (or, I guess
if you’re more hip-happening, your
DVD collection), and pop in your
favourite flick.

Personally, I’d select one of
the classics (say, Beauty and the
Beast or Mary Poppins). Then pick a
character, or two, or three. And then
every time that character’s name is
said, take a big drink. Yum! Soon
you'll be in a better, drunker, place.

cut back on primarily carb sources
(like rice or pasta) to make up for
those provided with the beans or
legumes. Vegan meals must also
replace animal milk with many
more leafy-green vegetables,
provided one is not substituting
with a vegetable milk.

Overall, a vegan diet can
be very healthy if planned and
executed properly. It doesn’t have
to be unfulfilling or boring, but it
does have to be different.

Next week: info on fats, and a
recipe for pancakes with chocolate
peanut butter sauce.

 

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