Help me, i'm a student !!!! (sunday, Zen)

[Mike182]

students, typically unhealthy diet and broke as anything. this thread is to help turn this around!

i am a student, soon to start at uni, will have a limited budget for food, and the last time i cooked breakfast our insurance premiums went through the roof.... kinda like the flames did

i joke, but i can't really cook... so, this thread is for people to post quick, easy, and more importantly, cheap recepies

i'll start

1)take £1
2) walk to chip shop
3) pay the nice lady for a bag of chips
4) add ketchup, salt and vinegar as appropriate

[Sunstone]

1) Buy a dozen boxes of macaronni and cheese.

2) Buy some tins of tuna, some tins of tomato paste, some spices like onion, pepper, mixed Italian spices, and some parmesan cheese.

3) you now have the various items necessary to create the following sumptuous meals"

A) Mac and cheese with tomato paste and Italian seasonings.

B) Mac and cheese with tuna.

C) Mac and cheese with parmesan.

D) Mac and cheese with pepper and onion flavoring.

All cheap, all easy to cook, all decidedly better than eating bark and grass.

[Mike182]

i'm quite fond of simple tuna-pasta bake, or a pasta in tomato stuff, and they are easy to do, but after a while they get boring .... i get bored of food easily if i have it too much

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by Mike182

i'm quite fond of simple tuna-pasta bake, or a pasta in tomato stuff, and they are easy to do, but after a while they get boring .... i get bored of food easily if i have it too much

Don't forget potatoes. You can mash them up with onions and garlic.

You can bake them and throw cheese on them. At brocoli to the cheese. Or bacon bits.

Basically, remember the potato is the poor man's steak. You can bake it, boil it, mash it, fry it, and it will taste a bit different each time.

Cheap too.

[Booko]

Originally Posted by Mike182

i'm quite fond of simple tuna-pasta bake, or a pasta in tomato stuff, and they are easy to do, but after a while they get boring .... i get bored of food easily if i have it too much

Not only that, but it's really bad if you eat too much of the same thing all the time. You risk getting food allergies later, and end with a bizzaro diet like mine.

When in doubt, we used to cook elbow macaroni, put tomato soup on it, and then top with grated cheddar. Or what the heck, just eat the cheddar on the side.

Lentils and rice are dirt cheap, but still have some protein in it on account of the lentils. Add dill weed, onions and garlic for flavor. OK, so you're a student. Keep granulated onion and garlic on hand. Shake as needed. Use brown rice if you can. White rice has the nutritional value of potato crisps...

I don't know what your living arrangements are, but we used to have 4 in an apartment, and we would buy a turkey and roast it on Sunday, and then eat the leftovers for a week.

Leftovers possibilities:

Turkey fried rice. (Eat your veggies!)

Turkey noodle casserole (use cream of chicken soup and whatever stuff you want to throw in.)

Turkey fajitas (saute onion and bell pepper, warm turkey, stick in wrap with salsa...voila...dinnner!) Leftover salsa can be eaten with snacks while watching the soccer match....

Oh yeah, for a change from tuna, try salmon patties. They're easy, and you can use canned salmon. Eat with salad. All you really need for them is crackers (er...biscuits for cheese by you), canned salmon, diced onion (or granulated! ) salt papper and an egg. It's like meatloaf, but with salmon.

I'll have to give this some more thought. There are tons of cheap and easy things we used to (and some that we still) cook.

[Booko]

Originally Posted by Sunstone

Don't forget potatoes. You can mash them up with onions and garlic.

You can bake them and throw cheese on them. At brocoli to the cheese. Or bacon bits.

Basically, remember the potato is the poor man's steak. You can bake it, boil it, mash it, fry it, and it will taste a bit different each time.

Ah yes! The stuffed potato. It couldn't be simpler. Nuke potato until done. Stuff with cheese, bacon, broccoli, whatever else you've got. Make salad, or if lazy, just eat some raw carrots. Dinner!

I used to do this for lunch at work, and found it a decent meal, even though I find potatoes boring.

[nutshell]

Get married.

That took care of my food troubles.

[Sunstone]

Mike, if you have to work on the side when in school, think of getting a job waiting tables in a restaurant that gives employee meals. I don't know how well such jobs pay in the UK, but in the US they're usually high pay per hour in the average restaurants. A waiter can bring in over $20/hour in tips in an average restaurant, and need not work that many hours a week.