Hi. I started University a week ago. I handled myself pretty well last week I think, and I tried to get at least 1 piece of fruit per day. Wanted to get some bananas. But yeah. I'm living in halls with 5 other people, Wondering if any of you had any protips on a diet?
Student diet:
Ramen / Pot Noodles (UK)
Baked Beans (UK) / Spaghetti Hoops (UK)
Loafs of bread
Pizza
Tea (UK)
Coffee
Vodka
Weed
This is all you will ever need.
>>2
isnt that going to make you put on weight??
i suggest buying a recipe book, cheap fresh ingredients and COOK.
oh, a rice cooker too.
OP:
>>2
I have had all of the above, except weed rly.
I have a vegetarian cookbook, but its pretty old. I'll stick with Supernoodles.
Lol. Tea (UK). Our country is full of it. The University where I live, it has a cafe called Harbls.
yeah, I know.
>>4
Awesome. Tell me where you live, I'm packing already.
Pasta and Brown Rice, also wholegrain bread.
Pasta is always a good choice. It cooks pretty quickly, you can put just about anything with it, it's filling, and keeps you alive.
Go look for the recipe book titled "What to cook when you think there's nothing in the house to eat". It's nothing short of lifesaving.
Oatmeal, brown rice, eggs are very cheap where I live, and are main source of protein, along with cottage cheese soy, apples, bananas, veggies, specifically carrot and cucumber, pita bread. You can cook a ton of tasty and healthy shit just by mixing this stuff at random and nuking it in the microwave.
Here, white rice and tuna cans are very cheap. Just be sure to buy your rice in large quantities, like at oriental groceries.
Mix rice, tuna, welsh onions, seasonings, water and nuke. Fullfilling and delicious!
For flavour, we use a brand of some undescript Chinese sauce. The only identifiable thing on the label is a photography of a woman's face. Hence, we nicknamed it ``face sauce.''
>>11 Tru dat, Asian markets are a lot cheaper than Meriken stores. I got a pound of curry powder at an Asian market for the price of 2 ounces at a Merikan store.
Invest in olive oil and a set of common spices. I like to put the oil on a plate, put spices in it, and then simply dip pieces of french bread in it for a little snack. Goes better with fresh minced garlic! Also you can pick up a jar of pitted kalamata olives, a jar of marinated artichoke hearts, and a block of feta cheese. Mix everything together, combine spices + olive oil + lemon juice in a small cup and then drizzle + mix over the whole mess. Bang, five minute Mediterranean salad.
Another good snack is chips + salsa/guacamole
I know you're supposed to try to eat health all the time but seriously in college I feel like one should try to survive those four years doing shit and eating crap. just get by and get out
Have an apple. It's like 99c a pound. Also, have you tried macaroni salad with apple, grated chicken and celery? Delicious.
Apple Mac
.
.
.
.
.
.
http://shorturl.info/564753964
I stick with a rice cooker and curry. oh and tea and lemonade.
Things I ate:
Cheese and crackers.
Pop tarts.
Pizza, leftover pizza, and leftover leftover pizza.
Ramen, with a can of peas, a can of corn and a can of chicken to make a stew-ish thing.
chips with velveeta+rotel
out, often. Plenty of good food around a college.
I'm still about 50 pounds overweight, your mileage may vary.
Cheese is probably the achilles heel of college diets. It's cheap, tasty, and filling, but it fills you with crap.
Get burgers as a cheap meat if you can't eat fish/chicken for protein. Peanut butter is good for protein too (brain food!) and is easy to keep with bread or crackers if you don't have a fridge, but it also contains a lot of fat so don't get too used to it.
I ate a lot of pizza freshman year. Pizza and McDonalds. I packed on the freshman 15, but....well, I started college *under*weight to begin with, so while I wasn't exactly in primo condition, it balanced out. All that made me feel pretty sick though, and that's when I started buying bananas and apples and good easy stuff. I actually started eating two meals a day -- late lunch and early dinner got me through months of my first couple of semesters.
The school cafeteria saved my ass plenty of times but it was expensive. :(
What do you consider common spices?
I use herbs like dried tarragon for chicken, and basil for Italian things. Cumin is good on Mexican food, and coriander goes good with cumin. But I don't really have a large vocabulary for herbs and spices.
Well, salt is common, as is pepper. But the latter tends to be expensive.
Good spices to have are: chili, garlic, salt, cumin, turmeric, paprika. Those blend well in many proportion, and are sure to give your meals bright colors, especially turmeric and paprika.
Good herbs: coriander (cilantro), basil, thyme, oregano. You only need small amounts of them, and they taste divine in soups.
>>22 speaks the truth.
A little cinnamon and/or allspice and some clove helps too, if you've ever tried adding a little to a curry or stew you'll know what I'm talking about. Plus these spices are necessary for some dishes, kind of hard to get the same subtle flavors in some things without them.
To the herbs, I'd add rosemary and sage, I think.
If you have all of these, you're pretty much prepared to make anything you want; you can create a multitude of different flavors and such with just a few different spices.
I'm in university too, and the one thing I'm addicted to eating is Spaghetti. It is one of the few things I can afford to buy that is relatively healthy and affordable. I also like to buy broccoli and apples and bananas on a weekly basis. I've shopped around a lot to know where to get organic ones cheap, or I buy stuff at the farmer's market.
For the spaghetti I buy organic tomato sauce and, either organic whole wheat noodles, or rice noodles. I add fresh garlic to the sauce, and I splurge on cheeses like parmesan or pecorino romano. I usually eat toast with it as well. So far I haven't got tired of it. :3
One of my new favorite snacks is Hummus. It's so tasty to dip fresh veggies or pitas in! Addicting and easy to make!
Cooking on your own is your best bet. I ate at the cafeteria my first year and gained a lot of weight! That was probably because of stress though, too. Don't be tempted to eat crappy foods. It IS possible to eat healthily and cheaply.
Today I learned how to make BBQ sauce. It is surprisingly easy.
Put to boil in a small pot some chicken broth (made from chicken bones and/or Bovril and/or everything else chickeny).
Add some ketchup to get a reddish color, spices, corn starch, and let simmer for a few minutes while stirring gently.
It is way more tasty than pre-made varieties, and healthier.
If you're really low on cash, just buy a loaf of bread and a jar of peanut butter. It's great if you want to lose weight too, because eventually you'll get sick of peanut butter sandwiches and you'll start eating less and less.
Ah, the days when i would stretch a loaf of bread and peanut butter over two weeks.