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what is/was/will be your top favourite meal when you're a poor student and not very good at cooking like me?
mine is potato squares. chop up a couple of potatoes into squares and fry them with whatever is in the fridge - pepper, onion, mushrooms, bit of garlic and a bit of dill
this meal has developed a lot since I first discovered potato squares, i intend to get everyone eating them when i go back to uni as they are simply
i need more ideas though, for different foods, or i'll end up on a carbohydrate overload!
mine is potato squares. chop up a couple of potatoes into squares and fry them with whatever is in the fridge - pepper, onion, mushrooms, bit of garlic and a bit of dill
this meal has developed a lot since I first discovered potato squares, i intend to get everyone eating them when i go back to uni as they are simply
i need more ideas though, for different foods, or i'll end up on a carbohydrate overload!
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Good thread because I need recipes to take with me.
Healthy things...I'm already looking like a snowball.
For a cheaper pasta sauce: Tinned chopped tomatoes, peppers, onions and herbs. Chills much better for pasta salad too.
Pitta breads with salad and tuna or cheese.
I will be mostly living off mashed potato, sweetcorn, green beans and gravy though.
i do the potatoes on their own for about 5-10 mins to get them going then add the rest in. tis cool cos you can put whatever you like in
Be wary of Dominos (and similar places) student offers at the weekend. Try not to go over the top. My friend had Dominos almost every weekend from September last year. By the time he had finished the year in June, he had put on two stones.
I already live off it, why should things change when I'm at uni?
My favourite combination is a chicken stock cube, that chinese cabbage stuff, peas, a spring onion cut into strips, whole button mushrooms and a bit of bacon (cooked first). :thumb:
but my fave used to be pasta dishes
bolognese and carbonara mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
all the other ideas are great too (apart from the takeaway pizza ) faerielights I love the sound of your noodles :thumb:
I tend to live on pasta with various different sauces, rice with chicken in sauce, a cheap roast dinner (Incl. Yorkshire puddings, chicken, potatoes, carrots, peas and gravy), but my speciality which someone at Uni introduced me to is pasta with gravy. Apparently people in York eat this (can anyone back me up on that ), but to anyone else it may seem alien to, you should try it, it's actually really nice.
I'm in agreement with Nastroman, if a few of you cook together and all contribute you can make much more adventurous meals, and you don't have to worry so much about buying too much of anything as it's much easier to cook for more people than it is to just cook for one.
A good investment if you're going to Uni and you're self catering is the George Foreman grilling machine, my next door neighbour at Uni has one and she cooks virtually eveything on there.
ive got a george forman and cannot express how good the thing is, you can cook virtually anything on it, normally cooks it well nice too, potatoe waffles are good when done on it
No actually, I find them too complex, so I usually reach for the Pot Noodle
I'm hoping to get some too before i start.
Otherwise, pasta and sauce(up to you) takes like 10mins to cook. And its high in carbo and fibre.
healthy eating on the cheap
skint gourmet
Cook some pasta, pour on the sauce et voila!