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Student Cook: Eat Healthily on a Student Budget Print
Thursday, 31st May 2007 (by J.D.)This article is about Food, Frugality, Money Hacks
When I first left home, my diet was awful. I mostly ate pizza and ramen, with a lot of hamburgers added to the mix. I didn’t prepare much food myself because I didn’t know how. Besides, I didn’t think I could afford it. Student Cook is a site designed to help young adults get started in the kitchen while keeping an eye on costs.
Student Cook was formed in late 2005 to offer a unique reference point on student cooking for all occasions and budgets. Feeding yourself as a student couldn’t be simpler with our tips on preparing, cooking, eating, storing and shopping for food.
Student Cook is based in the United Kingdom, but its advice is applicable to people of all ages around the world. This site isn’t just for students. There’s handy information in a variety of categories:
- Cooking basics covers topics like basic cooking terms, general food preparation, and how to make basic sauces.
- There are overviews of many common cooking methods.
- Easy entertaining, with information on how to eat breakfast on the run, how to throw a fondue party, and how to be a great host.
- The eating on a budget section has features on cheap foods that boost your brain power, stretching your food budget, and cooking in bulk.
Student Cook contains over 130 articles, and adds about 10 new articles every month. Some other gems I found include the etiquette of a shared kitchen, nutritious meals from storecupboard basics, and a list of basic kitchen equipment.
If I had access to information like this when I was in college, I might have subsisted on something other than ramen!
May 31st, 2007 at 6:04 am
Now I just need to convince my wife she needs help in the cooking area.
May 31st, 2007 at 7:11 am
This is an awesome resource, and I’m excited to explore it–I’m trying hard to stretch my food budget without compromising health or deliciousness this week.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:50 am
I lived on ramen and peanut butter and jelly my first year out of dorms. This is such an awesome resource, I wish I would have found it years ago.
May 31st, 2007 at 12:45 pm
It’s strange. I lived in shared housing for three years and we never had fights about food or money for bills. Other stuff, though!
May 31st, 2007 at 4:17 pm
When I was at college, I always thought that eating on the cheap was “character building” exercise. Something in the line of “studying hard and get a good job so that I can eat some nicer food”.
May 31st, 2007 at 9:34 pm
When I was in college, ordering an extra large veggie gourmet pizza from RoundTable was my food for the week of finals!
Nice site…I’ll have to get my husband to cook now.
June 1st, 2007 at 9:31 am
Trader Joes to the rescue! A frozen ‘gourmet’ something for 3 bucks and a 3 dollar bag of salad can feed 4 times or people! I know there are even more frugal ways, but when I was in college; this was way better than blowing it on fast food or ingredients that rotted in my fridge because I had no time to cook it. You get to also diversify your palate for less…
November 15th, 2007 at 7:33 am
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