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Hey, anyone got any ideas for cheap student meals? Thought we could build up a list of recipes...
I'll start with a cheap and easy chilli!
500g mince
1 diced onion
1 can of kidney beans
I can of chopped tomatoes
1 packet of chilli powder mixed with 1/4 pint of water.
Brown the mince in some oil, add the onions when the meat in nearly cooked. Then drain off excess fat, add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes. This will make enough for four people or can be frozen. Serve with rice.
Enjoy!
I'll start with a cheap and easy chilli!
500g mince
1 diced onion
1 can of kidney beans
I can of chopped tomatoes
1 packet of chilli powder mixed with 1/4 pint of water.
Brown the mince in some oil, add the onions when the meat in nearly cooked. Then drain off excess fat, add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes. This will make enough for four people or can be frozen. Serve with rice.
Enjoy!
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My culinary skills currently extend to microwaves...
Fish is easy to cook with a few taties, nutritious and tasty, simply fry the fish until it's of your taste. Also works to grill them, if you've got a posh kitchen.
Stir fry is great on a tight budget - just chop up some vegies (peppers, broccoli, peas, carrots, whatever takes your fancy or whatever's in the fridge,) throw in some pre-cooked noodles and you're on your way. If you're using meat, make sure to cook that before everything else, since it takes longer.
Rice is a good staple - mix with some salad leaves and soy sauce for an interesting taste combination (that I absolutely adore.)
A few ideas anyway. Am looking forward to cooking for myself next year - at least I can choose to eat a decent time then.
Yeah, what time are your meals... dinner's at 5:00 during the week and 4:30 on sundays! If your out until 2am then that's like nine hours without a meal if you don't get something else...
Jesus, you do get it bad. We've got dinners at 6pm during the week and 5pm on weekends. Weekend breakfasts are absurdly early - who the hell gets up before 11 anyway? Actually, come to think of it, I've made 4 breakfasts in 6 weeks that I've been here.
Och man, you dinnae get it richt.
I mostly lived on fruit, pasta with different sauces and pizza, oh and sticky buns from the baker.
Mice
Bake beans
Pasta
Mix um up, job done
You can cook with everything though! we are not having any probs, if in doubt add random stuff, like marmite and beer.
Bopz
he he food
Whatever's going, surely.
u forgotted the rice!!! tsk
why not just buy a student cook book? (or steal one, if ure really that skint!!)
Grilled mackerel with a sprinkle of salt, pepper and lemon juice on it, a baked potato with mayo and some salad.
Cost :£1 per head. Less if you buy in bulk.
usually can find em 2for1 at sainsburys and just chuck em in bread, pasta or mash - and they cook in like 30 secs too - bonus
Bopz
Anyway, my meal - I am slowly introducing everyone to this - it's potato squares
You need (for one person):
1 medium potato (peeled and chopped into little cubes)
1/2 chopped onion
whatever else happens to be lying in the fridge (e.g. red and green peppers, mushrooms, carrots, sweetcorn, bacon....)
Garlic, salt, pepper, herbs, soy sauce (to taste)
1. Heat a little oil in a frying pan and add the potatoes.
2. Stir fry until they are warmed through and starting to cook
3. Add the rest of the ingredients
4. Add some seasoning
5. Cook till cooked
6. Serve in a bowl
7. Eat
Seriously, try them, they are so yummy and every time you make it it's different cos you can use different ingredients!
you know, after the last time you posted this, i tried it, and it's SO nice.
i have become slightly addicted.
only thing i do is microwave the tattie first, so it's already cooked before i add it. makes it really soft and
oooh, that is a good idea :thumb:
you know, in france, they actually sell potato squares in the freezer department in supermarkets!
The bacon keeps the chicken sooo moist and it's lovely.
Other than that I'm living on pasta or micro meals because I can't be bothered to cook for one. Just doens't seem worth it. Can't wait to go home for xmas and be cooked for. But I do try and do a sunday roast each week.
Peel and cut potatoes,
Put a shallow baking tray in 1/3 with oil (a little more than a shallow fry) in the oven at 200°C to pre heat,
Boil for about 5 mins,
Drain off the water,
Put lid on pan and shakkey shakkey (to ruff up the edges),
get that baking tray out of the oven put ruffed up potatoes in and spoon over some of the oil,
Put back in the oven wait 20 mins,
take out rotate
Put back in the oven wait 30 mins until golden,
Put on plate with bacon wrapped chicken above