Mashed potatoes. Cheap and filling. Also, noodles. If you live with several people who cook at different times, don't be afraid to mooch off remains or use it in your own cooking. Leftover hotdogs with mashed potatoes and pasta is a classic.
What consists of the student diet?
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My diet at university: breaded chicken breast things of various flavours (£1 for 4 at Iceland), chips (skinny fries, £1 for 1.8kg at Iceland) and peas (£1 for 1kg, Iceland of course). Spice it up with a bit of chilli dipping sauce.
Same thing almost every day. Occasionally I'd do chilli con carne: jar of Sainsbury's own brand chilli cooking sauce (better than Uncle Ben's) + a pack of mince, follow the instructions on the jar if it's not already obvious. Serve with a metric fuckton of rice.
This diet is not particularly recommended for most people. I got away with it by taking multivitamin + iron supplements every day.
Same thing almost every day. Occasionally I'd do chilli con carne: jar of Sainsbury's own brand chilli cooking sauce (better than Uncle Ben's) + a pack of mince, follow the instructions on the jar if it's not already obvious. Serve with a metric fuckton of rice.
This diet is not particularly recommended for most people. I got away with it by taking multivitamin + iron supplements every day.
Pasta, rice and noodles pretty much exclusively. Though that's probably more to do with the fact that I can't cook to save myself.
Though I do get a Greggs once a week usually just to eat some actually tasty food. God do I love Greggs.
Though I do get a Greggs once a week usually just to eat some actually tasty food. God do I love Greggs.
We got 30% student discount at Dominoes Pizza, so that contributed a large amount to my diet. XD Alongside bananas (for energy), Red Bull (for more energy re: late essays), cereal (easy to prepare, I guess milk is good for you, don't know about Coco Pops...), Uncle Ben's Mexican Rice (tastes like plastic but it's hot so I guess it constitutes a meal) and bourbon biscuits (no excuse). I also went through a phase of tuna + mayoinnaise + Tuc biscuits = heaven.
The only reason 'noodles' doesn't feature here is because I hate noodles and always will.
The only reason 'noodles' doesn't feature here is because I hate noodles and always will.
I am currently in halls so I don't cook a lot seeing as there's one tiny oven between 5 of us (and sometimes more as my rather irritating flatmates invite about 10 people over every night).
I have been living off mini pizzas, Supernoodles, Pot Noodles, Rustlers, Birdseye chicken pies with the vegetables in (my only real source of vegetables), and Tescos meal deals for lunch when I'm at uni. No wonder I have put on some weight ha. Amazingly I bought loads of fruit today and have put it in my room so if I get peckish I can have that.
When I move into my own place next year I will probably try and cook a lot more healthy stuff and may even try a roast!
I have been living off mini pizzas, Supernoodles, Pot Noodles, Rustlers, Birdseye chicken pies with the vegetables in (my only real source of vegetables), and Tescos meal deals for lunch when I'm at uni. No wonder I have put on some weight ha. Amazingly I bought loads of fruit today and have put it in my room so if I get peckish I can have that.
When I move into my own place next year I will probably try and cook a lot more healthy stuff and may even try a roast!
Oh how I envy you right now. At college I had Greggs at least once a day. Alas at uni I am having withdrawal. There are no Greggs in the centre of Plymouth at all! Not even near Drake Circus. I may have to start a petition to get one built.Red Right Hand said:
Pesto is a live-saver. It's the only thing that keeps me getting stick of all that pasta!
Oh, and plenty of tins as well - soups, beans, tuna and the like.
Oh, and plenty of tins as well - soups, beans, tuna and the like.
Well surprisingly take aways and ready meals are damned expensive. Ok it's more work to start with the basic ingredients yourself but it is cheaper, and a hell of a lot healthier. The key is getting just enough variety in your meals, but at the same time learning a bunch of rescipies that you just know and can do realitively quickly and easily when you need to.
As someone has already mentioned, homemade burgers are dead easy, mince, 1 egg and buns. I added onions (chopped and also sliced into rings), salt and a little spice, paprika. Spices are fantastic, they can add so much to meals, and change them so easily. Get a load and experiment.
When I went to tesco they would normally have a 3 for £10 meat section, get any 3, normally chicken breasts, pork chops but sometimes steaks as well. Chicken is good coz you can do a lot with it. So yeah, I lived a lot of that sections. Plus each of these items was large enough so that when I made a meal out of them I was well fed enough not to need lunch (that saved a lot of money, spent so much money on lunch in first year, buying it from the campus shop).
As someone has already mentioned, homemade burgers are dead easy, mince, 1 egg and buns. I added onions (chopped and also sliced into rings), salt and a little spice, paprika. Spices are fantastic, they can add so much to meals, and change them so easily. Get a load and experiment.
When I went to tesco they would normally have a 3 for £10 meat section, get any 3, normally chicken breasts, pork chops but sometimes steaks as well. Chicken is good coz you can do a lot with it. So yeah, I lived a lot of that sections. Plus each of these items was large enough so that when I made a meal out of them I was well fed enough not to need lunch (that saved a lot of money, spent so much money on lunch in first year, buying it from the campus shop).
Fine Caviar and Champagne. Since Students can get all these loans and grants. You may as well make the most of it.
I tend to stock up on chicken, big bulk packs of pasta and rice, and loads of those jars of pasta sauce or curry sauce. Then I just do loads of chicken curry, pasta bakes, stuff like that. Also, cereal is a life saver. I eat so much cereal, and it's not that expensive, so it really helps when I feel hungry and need an energy boost. And things like 'Pasta'n'Sauce' or Super Noodles (the UK version of Ramen Noodles, which aren't actually ramen noodles because ramen noodles are a completely different meal in Asia...). Stock up on those and you have cheap meals that will last you ages. I have a 1kg bag of rice and 1kg bag of pasta in my cupboard, they've been in there for about two months and there's still plenty left (best thing is, pasta and rice don't go off when uncooked 
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Speaking as someone living on loans and grants, I can say this---it's basically welfare with a better end result. (or a far worse one, if you major in something without good long-term career prospects and high-paying jobs, like my friend who has a master's degree in art history but lives in an apartment that her parents pay for because she can't fully support herself working part-time at a museum because that's the only place for 50 miles around that would hire her.)thenumberthirteen said:
I know. I've just finished my BSc and are living at home and working a minimum wage go-nowhere job.SimuLord said:
On the bright side, every time I meet an intelligent woman with an advanced degree who constantly laments her woeful economic situation, I can be like "you know, if a man makes $100,000 a year or more, statistically speaking his spouse is most likely to be a schoolteacher" (source: Forbes magazine, which should tell you all you need to know about what rich people consider "dating advice") and if she's ever even so much as thought about teaching for a living (the girl I mentioned in the previous post wants to go back for her doctorate and become a college professor) it'll worm its way into her head.thenumberthirteen said:
Oh, accounting major, how I love thee sometimes, even though I don't think the IRS pays quite six figures---everything I've seen suggests high fives, $100K only in places like NY and San Francisco.
BTW: If the word has symbols it is fake, type anything you want for that word.BlueGlowstick said:
TOPIC: PBJ!
Also...PBJ on toast!
Well my degree is in IT Management, and my High School IT teacher used to make £100 ($160) an hour as a freelance consultant, but he became a teacher so he could spend more time with his family.SimuLord said:
