Student Food

[ctid]

Hey

I moved into uni halls on monday and was wondering if anyone has got any tips on cheap and easy meals to make. I need to make an attempt to live somewhat healthily

Cheers

[Merlin4458]

i spent the first year experimenting with beans on toast
beans on toast classic
beans on toast with cheese
beans on toast with cheese and sweetcorn
beans pork suasages on toast
beans and pork sausages on toast with sweetcorn
throw some backon in there,
some tuna is amazing but not as cheap
change the bread
put a poached egg on top

I live like a king/

Also get basic stuff from sainsburies or tesco(not the meat)
tinned potatoes
beans
pasta
sauces
cheese(mild is cheaper)

im currently living on 3 for 2 kievs from sainsburies and croquets(99p) with of course....beans

[Moby-Dick]

Meatballs.

Mince
Small Tub of Sour Cream
Packet of French Onion Soup

Mix em up and roll into balls - cook in the oven.

serve with chilli sauce / chips / pasta / jam ( if you are feelign sweedish )

[Lee @ SCAN]

Cookings not that hard you know even I can do it after a fair few beers and still get very good results.

Pasta - easy to cook, it's just boiling water and placing it in until nice and cooked.

Pasta sauces - Cheap enough, but if you experiment enough you can make your own. I've found extra mature cheddar (grated), Salad Cream, and ham or bacon (chopped) nicely and mixed together is a cracking combo

Chicken - Again, frozen bags of chicken can be fairly cheap and can be used for a variety of dishes. At the moment my favourite is spicy chicken fajitas which I ate loads of at weekend.

Lastly - cheap kebabs can more than likely be sourced from near the uni itself.

[Merlin4458]

really wouldnt recommend going for the tesco value chicken or any other value chicken. Theres a reason why its so cheap. My flat m8 buys it and u can see the hairs on it still, and the wounds where they been dragged out. Just get chicken when its on offer, which is 90% of the time. 2 for £5 etc

[Merlin4458]

turkey is much cheaper than chicken with fairly similar taste if u fancy cutting costs, but im all about the chicken.

Chicken slice down the middle, stuff with regular cheese, close up again,
Put on foil and drown in nandos sauce
Wrap the foil up and lob in the oven
Get some rice going
Take chicken out, put on the bed of rice, and pour the source from the foil over the rice

Made manyer lady friend with that cuisine

[tiggerai]

Actually, in the freezer section there is the Lakeland £2.99 frozen chicken breasts which are good quality for what they are.

Always check the Yellow Label specials... I've had some amazing bargains from there... chicken for £1.28 etc

[rastamanblues]

Pasta, pick your variety, various pasta sauces, then if your feeling adventurious experiment with a few differnt things, cheap quick and tasty!

Failing that cheese on toast is always a good choice!

and healthy bah..... you can work it off along with the debts in 3 years

[tiggerai]

Originally Posted by rastamanblues

and healthy bah..... you can work it off along with the debts in 3 years :lol

You won't believe how true that statement is.

[IBM]

Another pasta vote.....get the decent stuff, as it's still great value for money...

Buy some pinenuts, toast them in a frying pan until lightly brown. Put to one side. Finely chop garlic, toss it into some oil heating in a pan, throw in the cooked pasta (al dente ftw, can't be dealing with soggy pasta) and stir it around. 1 minute before serving put in a couple of handfuls of young spinach leaves, and stir it around. Pour out onto plate stir in pine nuts, grate some parmesean on top, then use a potato peeler to add some paper thin slices of parmesean as well. It's gorgeous.

My favourite, if you're entertaining, or feeling flush. Roast a chicken, pour the juices into the serving bowl, shred the chicken, plus a couple of handfuls of sultanas, stir the cooked pasta into the juices from the chicken, along with the chicken and sultanas, and serve.

[Lucio]

I always found Super Noodles worked quite well as a filler for most other ingredients (and the walls if left to dry )

Other than that, one thing I'd suggest investing in is a wok and a spice rack. In combination you can make many simple ingredients come out to be a decent tasting meal. For example there's a variety of dishes that can be made with chopped tomotoes, a couple of veggies and some kind of meat plus whatever spices you feel like at the time. Best part is, you can get up to 4 meals from one set of ingredients, so if you have the freezer space, make up several meals worth in one go and then microwave the others as you need it.

[steve threlfall]

Pasta (wholegrain)
Rice (brown)
Noodles
Tuna (cheap and very, very healthy)
Mince Beef (spag bol)

Go the supermarket just before it closes and get reduced stuff

[Steve B]

Originally Posted by Lucio

I always found Super Noodles worked quite well as a filler for most other ingredients (and the walls if left to dry )

Super Noodles FTW!
I could easily live off supernoodles.

[cougarslam]

I always found iceland had cheaper chicken then tesco.

The local kebab house was an excellent source of food for me

also those ready meals from tesco that could be microwaved.

[Funkstar]

Originally Posted by Steve B

I could easily live off supernoodles.

I wonder how long someone would survive on spernoodles alone....

Originally Posted by cougarslam

also those ready meals from tesco that could be microwaved.

Not cheap and definitely not healthy. I would argue about how edible they are as well.

[cougarslam]

Originally Posted by Funkstar

I wonder how long someone would survive on spernoodles alone....


Not cheap and definitely not healthy. I would argue about how edible they are as well.

yer they were pretty expensive and tasted pretty rank.