We serve at least one vegan or vegetarian entrée and side at each dining hall at every meal. Please use EatSmart or the Illinois App and use the vegan or vegetarian filter to search all options in all dining locations. Additionally, we serve vegan and vegetarian Good2Go meals at dining retail locations daily.

Field of Greens, an all you care to eat dining hall located in Lincoln Avenue Residence Hall (LAR), has an entirely vegetarian/vegan menu. Meals are served every weekday at lunch. Soytainly, a micro restaurant, is located in the Ikenberry dining hall and serves an entirely vegan menu.

In addition, each dining hall has a variety of vegan options available. Examples of items you might find in these spaces include:

• Liquid amino acids
• Nutritional yeast
• Ground flaxseed
• Vegan mayonnaise
• Meatless deli turkey slices
• Meatless deli ham slices
• Vegan cream cheese
• Vegan American cheese slices
• Vegan mozzarella cheese slices
• Vegan yogurt
• Almond milk (original, vanilla)
• Rice milk (original, vanilla)
• Soy milk (vanilla, chocolate)
• Vegan, soy-free buttery spread

Please ask a manager if you are trying to locate a specific item or would like to make a recommendation for a specific item to be stocked.

There are gluten-friendly options served at the Inclusive Solutions micro restaurants at Ikenberry and ISR Dining Halls, as well as accommodation options available through the Inclusive Solutions custom orders program.

Each dining hall has a space for gluten-free products for any student to use. Examples of items you might find in these spaces include:

• White sandwich bread
• Whole grain bread
• Hamburger and hot dog buns
• Plain and cinnamon raisin bagels
• Cookies, muffins and brownies
• Rice Chex, Lucky Charms, Honey Nut Cheerios

Additionally, various gluten-free items can be found in dining retail locations. Please ask a manager if you are trying to locate a specific item or would like to make a recommendation for a specific item to be stocked.

Kosher meals are served at Kosher Kitchen, located in Lincoln Avenue Residence Hall (LAR), during the academic year while the dining halls are in operation. Check the Illinois App or our menu page for hours of operation.

These kosher meals are under the certification of Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel of Illini Chabad and in partnership with Illini Chabad. In addition, kosher shelf-stable or frozen meals are available upon request in all dining halls. Kosher shelf-stable meals as well as other kosher products are available for purchase in the dining retail locations 57-North in the SDRP, Terrabyte at ISR and Urbana South Market in PAR.

Packaged kosher meals that were prepared in the Kosher Kitchen are also available for purchase in the Illini Union Quad Shop.

Residents are encouraged to prepare to-go meals in disposable containers, available upon request or through the Good2Go reusable container program, for meals instead of a food-cost credit. Residents with a meal plan who choose not to dine in the dining halls during a religious observance must email their full name and UIN to housing@illinois.edu to be credited for their missed meals. Residents requesting this option will not utilize their meal plan during the observance and should see the credit posted on their online student account within seven business days of the observance ending.

All University Housing meal plans allocate meals and Dining Dollars weekly at the beginning of each meal plan week. Requests for a credit will only be considered for observances of seven or more consecutive days of missed meals. Credits for missed meals will be issued in full week increments based on an average raw food cost.

Certified halal protein options are available to our residents at each of our dining hall locations. Upon delivery from our certified vendors and distributors (see list below), the halal product is held separately from haram items and dining staff is trained in halal food preparation. Halal options are so prominently used in our cooking that all our meal holders regularly eat halal proteins, because of how often we serve them.
 
Please ask a manager if you have any questions or comments regarding our halal options or send general inquiries to:  hsprocurement@housing.illinois.edu
 
Halal Vendor Certifications:

• Devanco Foods – Italian beef
• Mar-Jac Poultry, Inc – Fresh chicken
• Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation – Fresh chicken
• Halpern’s Steak and Seafood – Lamb, beef
• Kronos Food Corp. – Beef gyro

Do you have a question about healthy eating, food allergies, special diets or other nutrition topics? Our staff dietitian consults on all menus and can also provide you with guidance on a range of topics, from food allergies to making healthy choices in the dining halls to enrolling in the Inclusive Solutions program.

Examples of what our dietitian can help you with if you are a resident or meal plan holder:

• General nutrition questions and advice on making healthy food choices
• Food Allergies and Intolerances
• Celiac Disease
• Eating Disorders
• Diabetes
• Irritable Bowl Syndrome & Crohn’s
• Metabolic & Autoimmune Diseases
• Weight Management
• Vegan
• Vegetarian
• Religious Dietary Observances

Contact Our Dietitian for more information.

Have a simple question? TXTRDN + your question to 55744 and the on-staff dietitian will text back with an answer!

Our award-winning program, run by our on-staff dietitian, provides eligible residents and meal plan holders with severe allergies or intolerances with a stress-free solution to eating in our dining halls.

The program offers a mobile app for students to order customizable entrees, sides and desserts prior to arriving in any of our dining hall locations during their normal operating hours. The meals are prepared in a separate allergy-friendly area that has special cleaning and preparation protocols and is staffed only by the Dining Allergy Team. All dining services staff receive allergy training; however, each member of our Dining Allergy Team has completed additional training through the MenuTrinfo AllerTrain program, has passed an examination and receives ongoing hands-on training.