I'm at college and I've run out of money on my meal plan with just over a month to go till the end. The food and housing at my school sucks and I hate them, they rip you off find creative ways to charge you money all the time, plus the food is ridiculously over priced. So I'm saying F you to them and living off groceries. I have a microwave, a toaster over, I have limited access to a rice cooker (its not mine and I don't really know the kid too well), and someone left a hot plate in my floor lounge and don't know how long that's gonna be there for but I hope they don't take it away. I'm not that good at cooking and I need some creative wisdom from ski bums to help me out in how I can last on month on something other than pb&j's while sticking it to the man. Thankz
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TACO-DOG.exe
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ramen
NotoriousT.S.E
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bagels, toaster grilled cheese, cereal. Thats usually what I eat at home and it sucks but it kinda works.
KimJong-Illest
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Find a chinese place near you. Where I am its like 8 dollars for enough chicken and rice to last 5 meals.
.Hugo.
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tortillas, cheese and anything else you wanna include
use the toaster oven to make grilled cheese or any other kind of sandwich
ramen, can add in things like hotdogs or mix flavors together
ravioli, soups etc in bulk
go home for a weekend and raid any leftovers in your parents fridge
use friends guest passes to cafeteria in exchange for blowjobs
use the toaster oven to make grilled cheese or any other kind of sandwich
ramen, can add in things like hotdogs or mix flavors together
ravioli, soups etc in bulk
go home for a weekend and raid any leftovers in your parents fridge
use friends guest passes to cafeteria in exchange for blowjobs
.MintBerryCrunch
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https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/thread_id/741394/
microwave snacks you can cook in a mug
op14
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The problem with Ramen is that if you eat it too much the amount of sodium in it is unbelievably unhealthy. Grilled cheese is always good. Tomato soup on the side with that too is great. Spaghettios, Campbells anything, tortilla chips and cheese is always a good substitute every once in a while. Also, in the traveling circus they eat a lot of hot dogs and olsson eats tuna with hot sauce in one episode. All relatively cheap and filing.
DIPED_IN_SAUCE
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canned tuna and siracha will get you through anything. No refrigeration required either which is a huge plus. Tuna on bread and cheese, tuna and mayo dip with chips, tuna and tuna, tuna and pasta, tuna and butter, tuna and celery, tuna and chicken, tuna and hamburgers, tuna and hummus, tuna and capers, tuna and lemons, tuna and dick, tuna and pudding, and more
Microcosm
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Do you have an oven in some common lounge? It seems daunting to cook at first, but it's really pretty simple.
Example. You have no idea what you're doing.. Go to store. Buy barbecue sauce, some pieces of chicken of any kind, foil pan. At it's most basic, open that chicken, rinse it, throw it in the pan.
Put the pan in the oven at like 350 or really who cares.. 300 to 400. It's not exact. Add the barbecue sauce somewhere along the way, just pour it on if you must.
Hardest part is figuring out when it's done. You can go by feel and look but when you're new that's tough. I use a thermometer plenty, it really helps you nail down what temps correlate to what amount of done-ness. You can look up cook to temps online. If not look up how to tell it's done and follow those. Don't eat it undercooked, obviously, but if it's overdone well fuck it just cook it less next time around.
Anyone who tells you a specific oven temp & cook time is full of it because it will change dramatically based on your equipment and your meat.
My roommates and I cooked plenty in college. Sometimes extravagant meals but more often a basic meal just to give us a dinner that night while we were busy studying or whatever. One of the easiest ways is to throw some kind of meat and thick cut veggies into the oven for an hour. It requires little work to check up on and in the end you have a decent meal + leftovers for lunch the next day.
Example. You have no idea what you're doing.. Go to store. Buy barbecue sauce, some pieces of chicken of any kind, foil pan. At it's most basic, open that chicken, rinse it, throw it in the pan.
Put the pan in the oven at like 350 or really who cares.. 300 to 400. It's not exact. Add the barbecue sauce somewhere along the way, just pour it on if you must.
Hardest part is figuring out when it's done. You can go by feel and look but when you're new that's tough. I use a thermometer plenty, it really helps you nail down what temps correlate to what amount of done-ness. You can look up cook to temps online. If not look up how to tell it's done and follow those. Don't eat it undercooked, obviously, but if it's overdone well fuck it just cook it less next time around.
Anyone who tells you a specific oven temp & cook time is full of it because it will change dramatically based on your equipment and your meat.
My roommates and I cooked plenty in college. Sometimes extravagant meals but more often a basic meal just to give us a dinner that night while we were busy studying or whatever. One of the easiest ways is to throw some kind of meat and thick cut veggies into the oven for an hour. It requires little work to check up on and in the end you have a decent meal + leftovers for lunch the next day.
VT_scratch
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I cook in a toaster... of knowledge... and reality...
Microcosm
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Yeah for sure. I know mine personally leaks a little more heat because the door doesn't close flush with the sides but that's okay. I also wouldn't necessarily trust the temp you set it at to be accurate, but you'll learn to adjust. Even my home oven runs 25 degrees cooler than I set it. Most of this equipment is unfortunately not that precise. The toaster isn't ideal but that's not really what dorm cooking is about.
Anyway you'll be most limited by the size of pan you can fit and the size of the food you can fit on that pan. You're probably not going to be able to cook a whole chicken without part of it being too close to the heating element and getting burnt. You should be able to fit a couple breasts, thighs, drumsticks, or wings though. You want a little room between them and you might want to flip em occasionally as they cook too.
Also chicken drops lots of delicious juices that you can use for a gravy, but even if I'm not doing that I usually drain the pan now and again. Otherwise the chicken is sitting in the juice instead of dry roasting, which is how you can get that nice and crispy skin.
Man I could rant for awhile on this but don't take my word for it, the internet is freakin full of awesome cooking info, so many youtube videos. I learned to cook in college starting with very little knowledge. Before you know it you'll be able to pull together some impressive shit and the internet reaally helps you fake it all together.
Anyway you'll be most limited by the size of pan you can fit and the size of the food you can fit on that pan. You're probably not going to be able to cook a whole chicken without part of it being too close to the heating element and getting burnt. You should be able to fit a couple breasts, thighs, drumsticks, or wings though. You want a little room between them and you might want to flip em occasionally as they cook too.
Also chicken drops lots of delicious juices that you can use for a gravy, but even if I'm not doing that I usually drain the pan now and again. Otherwise the chicken is sitting in the juice instead of dry roasting, which is how you can get that nice and crispy skin.
Man I could rant for awhile on this but don't take my word for it, the internet is freakin full of awesome cooking info, so many youtube videos. I learned to cook in college starting with very little knowledge. Before you know it you'll be able to pull together some impressive shit and the internet reaally helps you fake it all together.
VT_scratch
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you didn't get it... did you
