So I move out to university in 12 days, and when I go, I'll be doing everything for myself. It sounds awful. So I was wondering if any of you know of some good meals and other eats to make on a small budget? I'll have about ￡66 a week ($110), which covers living and travel. While a lot of things are included in my course costs, some things aren't, so I will be finding a job to make ends meet.

And that brings me to the question at hand, what meals can I make that are quite nice and cheap to make? I'll eat anything, really

Basics like potatoes, rice, ramen noodles. Eggs are good too. They aren't steak but will provide the same amount of protein.

Get a slow cooker, and you can feed yourself for a week with ~$30 (~18 pounds) or less. Doesn't take much skill to use them, just toss a bunch of misc stuff and set it to cook for 4 hours (high) or 8 hours (low). Generally works best with meats that have sauce, soups, stews, chili, and etc.

It's how I'm feeding myself right now.

Though, you can always try to live on the rice and beans diet. However, you really should find ways to eat veggies and fruits. Definitely make yourself a fresh salad and see if it'll keep for ~3 days.

Ramen and PB&Js will be your best friends. Seriously.

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Get ready for a [censored] ton of Ramen noddles, PB&Js and maybe some frozen food.

You'll begin the first week or so actually cooking and putting time into your meals. Very quickly you'll be buying nothing but Ramen and microwaveable stuff.

yeah, in University I lived of Ramen and boxes of Kraft Dinner..


keep an important eye on sales at your local grocery store, if somethings on sale cheap, stock up on it..

an important thing you will have to look into is if your university has any agreements going with your local grocery store.. when I was in Uni for example, the university had an agreement with a local grocery store where if you went to the store on Tuesday, and showed the cashier your student ID, they would knock 15% off your total..

now, it may not sound like much, but the 15% does add up, combine that with keeping your eye on what food is currently on sale, you can really treat your self to a really good meal from time to time..

Also, try and get an apartment close to the campus.. my apartment was literally two blocks from campus, and I saved alot of cash walking home for lunch and making a BLT rather than the over priced cafeteria in the Student Union building..

You may find yourself becoming an economic vegetarian, 'cause you can get way more food out of five bucks 'a vege than five dollars of meat -- for $5 you could get enough lentils and rice for a few meals (depending on your appetite and local prices). You'll find it difficult to eat healthily, cheaply, and with regular meat. Might even go so far as to say "Choose two, 'cause all three ain't happening" .

So look up some recipes for dahl, which is good because it is both cheap to make and very flexible (i.e. you can chuck in whatever vegetables you have to hand, or none at all if you don't can't afford 'em that week ), not to mention easy. Usually served with rice or a flat bread like roti or naan.

Chilli is another handy option, can be made with or without meat. Can be thrown together fairly quickly. Serve with rice or a maize-based option (cornbread, tortillas, or whatever strikes your fancy). If you make stuff with maize flour, try to get hold of and use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masa rather than corn that's simply been chucked through a mill, as it is more nutritious (and tastier, depending on, er, tastes).

Many Indian dishes are pretty cheap, so they're a good place to start. A web search like https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cheap+vegetarian should also turn up a lot of possibilities.

I actually had Jalapeno dove poppers for dinner tonight

Stir fry is easy and cheap, you need a wok, some vegetables, noodles/rice, and something to flavour it. Maybe some meat, too.

Stir Fry is amazing.

Is there a Dollar Tree where you live? Can get a lot of food there for a $1 each item, we got a lot of breakfast biscuits there, and they are actually pretty good, and bigger than the ones you find in Mcdonalds. Likewise with the rest of the food and drinks

Let's see what else, a ton of Ramen, potatoes, Eggs, sandwiches. Make sure to grab a lot of coupons, and keep looking in the newspaper for sells, last week there was 2 pounds of chicken wings for 78 cents!

Holy... It wasn't bad? You've found the pot at the end of the rainbow, my friend. Best I've got is Big Lots has been known to sell the cups of Ramen for 38 cents a piece. That's the cups, not the packs.

A stir fry is a great way to combine a good amount of things for a good meal. Use some sort of spicing you like, make a sand which out of it, use a tortilla, or eat it straight up.