If your child is heading off to University for the first time. If like me, you know they will be fine but as a parent you will worry. I am sharing some Quick & Easy Meal Ideas For Busy Students
A cheap shopping list for a student can look like this –
- Pasta
- Rice
- Noodles
- Eggs
- Tinned tomatoes
- Baked beans
- Frozen vegetables
- Cheese
- Tortillas
- Pesto
- Soy sauce
- Garlic
- Potatoes
Table of Contents
Creamy Tomato Pasta
Ingredients
Pasta
Tin of Chopped Tomatoes
Garlic
Cream Cheese
Herbs
How To Make
- Cook your pasta and drain
- In a separate pan heat the tomatoes with the garlic and simmer for 5-10 minutes
- Stir in the cream cheese
- Add the pasta and herbs and mix together and serve
Cheesy Beans on Toast
Ingredients
Baked Beans
Bread
Grated Cheese
How To Make
- Toast the bread
- Heat the beans
- Pour the beans over the toast and add grated cheese
Chicken & Cheese Quesadillas
Ingredients
Wraps
Cooked Chicken
Grated Cheese
Sweetcorn
Salsa
How To Make
- Add the ingredients to half of a wrap and fold
- Heat a pan and fry for 2-3 minutes per side
Egg Fried Rice
Ingredients
Cold Rice
1-2 eggs scrambled
Soy Sauce
How To Make
- Either use a microwave rice or buy a bag of white rice and cook your own
- Cook a batch of rice to freeze down 600ml of salted water to the boil, add 400g rice once boiling cover and simmer on lowest heat for 10 minutes, then turn off heat and leave for another 1o minutes – freeze what you do not use
- In a pan add some oil and break in the eggs to scramble
- Add the rice and soy sauce and stir together
- You can add other ingredients at this stage as well
Loaded Jacket Potato
- For quickness you can microwave until your potato is soft
- You can also then coat in oil and sprinkle salt and pop in a hot oven for crispy skin
- Add butter and topping of choice
Some ideas for toppings
- Beans + cheese
- Tuna + mayo
- Chicken + cheese
- Cottage cheese + sweetcorn
Or
- Once the potato is cooked cut in half and scoop out the centre
- Mix with butter, grated cheese, onion and ham (or anything you have)
- Add back to the skins and pop in the oven until cheese is melted
Peanut Noodles
Ingredients
Cooked Noodles
1 tbsp Peanut Butter
1tbsp Soy Sauce
Lime or Lemon Juice
Sweet Chilli Sauce
Splash of Hot Water
How To Make
- Heat a pan and add the all the ingredients and heat through
- You can add peanuts for crunch, cooked chicken and vegetables as well
delicious ideas
remember my neice going to uni – she came home nearly 3 stone lighter
these tips would be fab
I do worry, especially with her illness as well and just being too shattered
As someone who isn’t a fan of cooking these are great for me as well. I’d have done so badly as a student if I lived away from home haha x
I have lost my spark with cooking these days and quick easy meals are what I need these days
I love cheesy beans on toast! Sometimes we have it your way (cheese on beans on toast) and sometimes we melt the cheese on the toast under the grill and then add the beans (beans on cheese on toast) 😆
This is comfort food me and my husband used to love if we wanted something but nothing too much. Not tried beans on cheese on toast will have to try that
Some great ideas for meals! I hope C has a fabulous time when she starts university
We have just over a week before she heads off, and she has lots of plans already
These are all great! Cooking is so important for eating good food and saving a lot of money when it comes to college life.
Exctly it is so much cheaper to make your own
Oh, my. So simple and so delicious. I’m not a student but I’ll be trying the Peanut Noodles recipe. Thank you!
We love this and you can add so many different things depending what you have in