grilled cheese
p. butter and banana~ toasted(optional)
tuna w/salad dressing and celery and relish toasted
veggie sticks and p.butter and honeyCheap and cheerfyl (and simple) recipes for uni?
make yourself a nut trial mix for a snack, mix all your favorite nuts and smarties together with rasins and cranberries, its very healthy!
for food try making simple fish in the oven :) get the white fillet fish so you have no bones and get a ';shake and bake'; thing but for fish and put a little oil in your dish and your fish and leave it in for less then 30 mins and you got really yummy fish, and if you like go to your nearest safeway and buy a sauce for the fish, lemon butter dill is very yummy with this fish! good luck:)
the saviour of all students are stir-frys. easy to do, just get some meat, a load of different veg, some noodles and some soy sauce, fry it all up together and you have a very quick and pretty healthy meal.
Also what i did once a week was to make something big like a lasagna, cottage pie, moussaka. they are pretty easy to make, look in any cook book. have one portion there and then and put the rest in the fridge or freezer, then you have several ready meals only much cheaper and nicer than the bought ones.
Baked potatoes with various fillings;
tuna and sweetcorn
cheese and coleslaw
etc...
roasted vegetables (courgettes, peppers, fennel, leeks, carrots, garlic etc) add vegetables according to their cooking time then add crispy bacon and finish with grated cheese.
Pasta, cooked with added salad ingredients e.g. toms, cucumber, peppers, butter beans or kidney beans, tuna or cheese or egg or chicken etc.. makes a great meal and can be made in bulk to last a few days.
Try a pizza or bread base with tomato paste, cheese and toppings (like a pizza)
sausage casserole, made with a tin of baked beans and chopped tomatoes, onions, sausages, garlic, mixed herbs and served with bread or mashed pots.
I could go on .....
Good luck
Try to have a balanced diet; something of everything.
Not a direct answer but the BBC has a great selection of recipes for all sorts of occasions even for uni. Just type in some ingredients or let them inspire you.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/
Cottage pie (serves 4-6 portions)
拢1.50 worth minced beef (cheaper if you feel like it)
15p onion diced
20p carrotsliced
10p frozen peas (just a handful out of the bag in the freezer)
oxo cube
some gravy granules to thicken
mixed herbs if you feel like a proper chef
50p worth of potatoes
Peel potatoes and chop to regular sized chunks, place in pan of boiling water.
Soften onions over medium heat in frying pan with 2 teaspoons oil of your choice. Add beef, frying until brown. Add oxo cube, stir in well. Add carrots, cook for a few minutes. Add some boiling water (between half a pint to a pint depending on amount of ingredients thus far), peas and optional herbs, lower heat and let simmer for half an hour. Check thickness of mixture, if it needs thickening, add gravy granules to taste.
Mash potatoes with a little butter and milk.
Either eat as mince and mash because you're bored and hungry, or in a baking dish place a layer of the mince mixture, topped with the mashed potatoes. Grill for 10 minutes under a medium-high grill, or until top goes brown.
Might be old fashioned, but come February when the cold winds are blowing, it'll take the chill off.
This is TWO recipes in one, practically cooks itself and should cost less than 拢2. Less if you buy dried pulses. You will get portions for two hungry people or you can start on day one with the Bolognaise and then on day 2 adapt it so you have chilli on day two. It improves in flavour on day 2.
Bean Bolognaise AND Veg Chili
Cheats version:
1. Brown onions. add one tin of ratatouille and one tin of kidney beans ( or mixed pulses as per your choice )..maybe some tomato puree
then
for Bolognaise..
Add Italian herbs....cook for a bit ..serve with spaghetti
or
for Chilli
add chilli powder or chillies and cumin....cook for a bit..serve with rice.
The non cheat version of course is to use fresh chopped veg of choice instead of the tinned ratatouille - tomatoes, aubergine, capsicum, mushrooms zucchini..sweetcorn ( esp in the chilli ) ..whatever.
my son lived on supernoodle butty's for three years at umist
a pint of guiness and a bag of crisps.
This might sound nasty but it's really quite tasty, so easy and very cheap...
Make some pasta and drain. Stir in some baked beans and add lots of butter. Season with lots of black pepper and enjoy... straight from the saucepan to save on the washing up!!
You need to buy a book called 'How to Boil an egg' (Simple Cookery for one). It is by Jan Wilson who wrote it for her son going off to uni. Someone bought it for me when I went off to uni 18 years ago, and I still refer to the vegetable section for cooking times and prep instructions. It tells you all the basics, plus how to cook for special occasions e.g Sunday lunch, puddings.
but beans on toast is a student staple!!!
Anyway, heres some tips I used:
Tuna Pasta, but add in (insted of mayo) a tin of chopped tomatoes, (one per three people) a little salt and pepper- and herbs if your feeling flush, then diced onions (reds best, sping onions are better), chopped peppers, sliced corgettes, a squashed garlic clove per person eating the meal, and tomatoe puree, simmer for 20 mins and eat.
If you like a paticular sauce and cant afford it, try mixing a 250g amont of it with a tin of chopped tomatoes- obviously better if the sauce is tomato based or it'll taste odd- but different can also be good!
Eggy bread (great for nights after a few too many) take a slice or two of bread (and it can even be stale bread if you haven't any fresh) then butter and put on the side for a min, then fry an egg, some milk (200ml per person) and salt and pepper until it starts to bubble, then chuck in the bread and if you have any, a little cheese for taste. If you are feeling really posh, add in chopped peppers, onions and diced onions.
Omlete as above but with no bread. And dont stir it, turn it when it solidifies.
Cous cous is also great- you can mix anything with it, from prawns to beans (the ones without the sauce are best) to vegetables to even chopped up frankfurters. Then add in salt and pepper, place the (dry) mix into a bowl and make sure there is about an inch before the brim of the bowl and your cous cous, then boil the kettle, pur the boiled water over the cous cous and then cover the bowl with either cling film(if you got that kind of money) or a placte. Leave to settle for about 10 mins, then eat. Ketchup or mayo usually does justice to this meal!
Macoroni cheese is good also, and you can add in cut up veggies which can be boiled along with the pasta. Then add the cheese sauce (you will need a good delia smith recipy book for a decent recipy) you can add garlc or chilli for flavour, and for some extras to add in, try diced ham, (yes you can still do this if its the packet ham), parsly or sliced tomatoes and branston or HP sauce.
Also good are stews which is where you put everything into a pan or water (and you can use chopped tomatoes) and stock cube, and some steak pieces or bacon pieces -or both, and leave to simmer then eat with white rice.
Or grilled kebabs which is just vegies sliced into chunks (the veg being corgettes, peppers, aubegines which you will need to fry in a pan first, tomatoes and red onions- and garlic cloves) and then slice meat pieces or fish pieces then sprinkle with oil, and grill on 180 for about 30 mins, turning occasionally. You can serve these with pitta bread, brwon rice or sprinkle with grated cheese.
Also dont overlook, ratattoi (cant spell that!) spaggetti bolonaise, lasagne. stir fry (just buy the sauce, packet of sharwoods noodles and beanspouts and your away!) and the all favorite, cheese on toast. Add anything to it and herbs can also transform a meal, add tomatoes to cheese on toast and ham to beans on toast and even tuna to lasagne insted of mince, and you have new ideas.
My best advice? Delia Smith. The lady is a genius!
Chilli con carne
Fry one chopped onion and a portion of cheap minced beef, add 2 tablespoon of cumin, 1 teaspoon of chilli and 1 crushed clove of garlic. Fry some more, the add a tin of chopped tomatoes and salt to taste. Adjust to taste by adding more chilli or salt. Serve with a microwave jacket spud or white rice or oven chips!
My stir fry's are ready in 6 mins :D
A pack of Amoy noodles
Vegtables of your choice
Meat i normally use swedish meatballs
Put pan on (medeim heat) and a little bit of olive oil
chop up veggies and add them in
leave for 1 - 2 mins and turn over veggies everyso often.
Take meatballs out of packed into a bowl and into the microwave though find out how long they need i think it's 3 mins
put noodles into pan until meatballs are ready
turn off pan
pour the food into a bowl
chop in half the meatballs then put them on to bowl/plate
add soy sauce, salt and pepper
done!
No longer than 10 minutes. I can make it and i'm 13 :D
Also olemettes are easy to make.
Hope i helped
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