I'm going into my 3rd year of university in a few weeks and I'm determined to make healthy home cooked meals this year. In the past I've relied heavily on frozen, unhealthy, prepackaged meals just because of the convenience- but I've set aside more time this year to focus on cooking! Any meal ideas that are cheap to meet the student budget and quick and easy to fit into the student schedule? Thanks and God bless!!

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Jacket Potato and Beans
Beans on Toast
Sausage, Mash and Beans

Or theres a website called student recipes you'll get better advice on there than I'm giving you

fry small fish, or buy a larger one and cut in into suitable pieces first (you can put the rest in the freezer)
boil some rice on the side
add stuff you like... tomatoes, corn, leek, onion, herbs....

simple and very yummy

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We use a crockpot/slow cooker a lot and you could probably get one for free from www.freecycle.org. The easiest recipe I know is to put chicken...any kind really.....into the crockpot with a can of salsa. First day eat with rice and veggies, second day, put in wraps for fajitas. You can often get roast beef on sale so put that in the crockpot with some onions, 3 cloves of garlic chopped up small, 1 tbsp of rosemary, 1 tbsp thyme, salt and pepper to taste. We also like to make roast chicken....any kind.....put chopped up veggies in the bottom (celery, onion, carrots), then sprinkle onion powder on the bottom of each peice of chicken and place it on top, then sprinkle onion powder on the top and salt and pepper and paprika to taste. We cook all of the above recipes on low, started in the morning before leaving, and come home to a delicious meal with little effort and amazing taste!

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couscous.... You can find it in any grocery store. 5 min to make and you can mix anything in it. Boil 1cup water, throw butter and a wee bit of salt (if you wish) and/or whatever spice you'd like. Once it starts boiling take the pot off the heat, add 1cup couscous, put the lid on and wait 5 min. If you don't want to boil the water, you can use one of those hot water dispensers if your uni has one.

Quinoa is even healthier. It takes more time to cook -- about 20 min. And it is a complete protein. Most grocery store have that as well.

Both of these can be found as whole wheat too.

yummmm yummm yummm.

I also used to live on boca burgers. I'm a veggie.

microwave KFC!!!! ohhhhhhh and i know no one has done this get a microwave safe plate and crack a raw egg on it, just put 1.50 min and vualla sunny side up egg ala radiation

Toad in a hole is always good. You just take a piece of bread & cut a hole in it with a cookie cutter or a cup, but butter in the pan, toast one side & then flip it over. Then you crack an egg and put it in the middle like a sunny side up & let it cook for a while. I do mine over easy cuz I get impatient :P It only takes 5 minutes and you can't mess it up lol and then you're not hungry in the next few hours like with cereal.

Cooking as a student isnt hard, just cook more, curries, pasta dishes etc are esy to make. cook 2-3 times the amount you normally would. bang a portion in the fridge and a portion in the freezer, then you just have to cook your rice, pasta etc on the day and heat up the rest in a pot. Its healthy tastes about a thousand times better than ready meals, and ultimately healthy.

Cook a stew up, grab whatever veggies you want, (I use potatoes, onions, swedes/turnips, carots & random stuff) the cheapest piece of meat you can find, lamb/beef works well, cut everything up into medium sized pieces, as big as you want. Throw it in a pot with vegetable stock - the stock cubes work quite well, make sure you do have stock in it, otherwise it will be fairly tasteless, put water in the pot to just cover everything and bring it to a simmer. At some point add 1-7 or so tablespoons of flour in, depending on how thick you want it and how many veggies in. The best way to put the flour in is to put the tablespoons in a cup, add Cold water, stir it until it's mixed - should be very thin, then just pour it into the stew. Cook it for an hour or so, or as long as you want. Should be nice and do you 7-8 meals... again depending on how much you cook, goes quite well with toast and you can freeze it and eat it later.

Very cheap and quite nice meal.

ramen noodles and mac n cheese...2 of the top college choices for me! how about a nice can of pork n beans anyone?

Eggs are indispensable. Practically a multivitamin and nearly perfect in every way (don't mind the cholesterol; studies have strongly shown that eating eggs--2 a day is what they tested--actually improves cholesterol levels) and plus they're incredibly cheap; I can get eggs for 10 cents each ($1.20 per dozen). I used to fry them up for every meal, but to save time I've started soft-boiling about a week's worth and then mixing them with my vegetables at each meal to warm them up. Technically you don't even have to heat them up afterwords, but I at least enjoy them warm. As far as I've calculated, a dozen eggs is roughly equivalent calorie-wise to a pound of beef or pork, which at its very cheapest is roughly $1.85 a pound and on average is probably $2.50 a pound and can't compared nutritionally (much more saturated fat in meat and not nearly as many vitamins; just less cholesterol). Chicken and fish are certainly leaner and have some benefits, but both are much more expensive and, once again, fewer vitamins and minerals. In other words... stock up on eggs!

Also, I remember this thread being on here before the server reset. Is it really worth reviving it? Is the original poster still reading it or is anyone still interested?

Tuna (or mince) Bake!

Cook your vegetables (boil or fry) and boil some potatoes seperately.
Fry your mince *if your going for the mince version*
Mix veggies + mince/tuna + single cream.
Pour into a baking dish, slice/grate the potatoes
Grate cheese on top.

Shove in oven for 15minutes

ABC Family - Greek - Video Details

It's funny AND the end result is DELICIOUS!!! I've tried it before, it works!

Veggie burgers.. morning star.. buy the bag at Costco.. but whole wheat bread.. and once in a while i just bake Pattie.. that's how bag says..bake for like ten mins.. heat whole wheat burger bun... and put normal veggis like any other burger..u can add baked potato slices on side.. i make potato slices.. on george grill machine just spray.. olive oil on machine or a simple tortilla heater and just cook there.. healthier..

Ramen noodles.

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mac and cheese with brocooli.. in it.. mmm whole wheat crackers yum

did you see the video I posted? haha

Good Pizzas...get the dough and cheese right...change the toppings..from walnut to pineapple to bacon and mincemeat.....