Crappy food you ate as a student

[ALemonyPea]

I was reminded today of the really cheap frozen shepherds pies I used to buy as a student. £1 for 6 of them from Tesco, served with frozen peas. Was an absolute feast circa 1998.

Or instant noodles with grated cheese. I like to have that every now and again, proper comfort food.

Ha!WhiteVixen,Tesco's used to stock the same thing and I loved them - I actually really fancy one now but I bet they don't taste the same.
Apart from that I think I mostly lived on toast with value apricot jam and chips after a night out.
Not me but housemates. One used to make instant mash potato with spaghetti hoops and brown sauce then mix it all together - eurgh! Another used to make a packet of savoury rice and mix it with baked beans!

WhiteVixen

Pitta breads with cheese, cucumbers and salad cream or baked potato and cheese and beans. I still adore both.

My favourite 'after clubbing' food on a Wednesday night was chicken and chilli sauce and salad rolled up to make a wrap in a naan bread type affair from the local curry/take away house. I used to eat it on the long walk home. Mmmmmmmmmmm.

am a student, still living at home - you’d think this means I’d have a steadier stream of home cooked food. Nope!

On my busiest days I live on instant Korean noodles from the student shop (that’d cost an entire student loan to buy)

Other times this’ll just be a blueberry muffin & a Starbucks

If I’m feeling flush it’ll be a meal deal - mozzarella and pesto sandwich, Cheetos and Starbucks.

I live a very healthy life, me.

My friends living in student halls sometimes go without food, or have just toast, ‘cheap’ nachos (Doritos and melted cheese!) or McDonald’s.

I still eat a Dr Oetkers pizza to myself, I’m having it tonight. Even worse we call them posh pizza in my house .
My speciality was meatballs from a tin with extra tomato sauce and all the cheese in the world!

I used to get croissant, butter and jam from the cafe every day. Needless to say, I put on 2st through uni.

MrPeevley how can you tell us you ate cat food curry and not tell us what it tasted like?!

I was in halls at uni (mid 70s) and towards the end of term we often had spam fritters, beans and chips and sausages beans and chips.

Chicken supernoodles with beans stirred in. Grind of black pepper and you're in gourmet heaven.

Sad how your tastebuds change as you get older - I tried supernoodles when I was pregnant and god how bland they were!

I also liked toasted sarnies with beans and cheese or, when particularly stoned, a toasted sarnie with a Creme Egg in it.

Cheesy smash in a cheap white bread sandwich.

Actually still sounds pretty good

Cheese toastie in the breville with or without marmite, for breakfast

Nutella spread on Asda smart price digestives

My fave tea was boiled rice with quorn pieces and black pepper and soy sauce on top. Its actually really good. A bag of quorn pieces would stretch a week, a bottle of soy sauce a month or longer.

Also 10p noodles from the Chinese supermarket

Last semester after a night out I found myself eating microwave mash with pre-grated cheese and dipping chicken nuggets in it 😳

Boil in the bag rice with frozen veg with soy sauce stirred in. Homemade Chinese.

Generally ate pretty well as whole household had a rota and kitty, and cooked for each other. Meant home cooked dinners 6 nights a week and only cook once! Toast featured pretty highly as cheap filler, as did butterscotch angel delight as a quick cheap pudding to cheer ourselves up.

Tinned spaghetti, soup and dry toast.
Oh, and sambucca. And southern comfort.
Uni was the one place I lost weight easily. I miss those days

Chinese next door did massive bags of chips for £1 - we used to share between 3 of us.

I also remember eating tinned macaroni cheese and toast a few times which would make me vomit now!

We did eat well other times tbf but didn’t have much time when lectures finished at 5 and work started at 6.

Lots and lots of pasta. Pasta bake, tuna pasta, pasta and pesto, pasta with tinned tomatoes and some veggies chucked in... occasionally pasta n'sauce from a packet or chicken supernoodles if I really cba. Lots of jacket potatoes, cereal, toast and sandwiches as well. It's just as well I was rock climbing competitively throughout uni because I was eating all the carbs.

I did a study year in Spain though and ate amazingly well there partly thanks to my Mexican flatmates who were amazing cooks and partly thanks to all the local bars giving us free tapas

We used to buy value turkey drumsticks and roast them if we wanted a cheap roast dinner. We called them dinosaur legs.

I actually used to eat proper meals: veg lasagne, poached chicken casserole, and that sort of thing.

One student house of friends just ate beige/orange oven foods (nuggets/chips/beans; pie/smileys/beans), and another just ate 9p white toast and jam.

Super noodles in cheap soup. Fish cakes from kwik save in sandwiches.

First year I lived on value cornflakes with “Marvel” powdered milk, toast and cheese, marmite, scrambled egg, bacon, baked beans or crappy value jam plus milky coffee and biscuits. Veg was peas or tinned sweetcorn, fruit was an occasional apple and I regularly scoffed a bar of Terry’s Orange chocolate on my way to lectures.
Second year I worked in McDonalds so I got a food allowance to live on and just kept milk and Nescafé at home.
Then I spent 2 summers working in a pub/carvery where I learned all my cooking skills and since then I’ve never looked back.

However at University most of my calories came from alcohol!

@Growingboys I don't think it's your tastebuds I think it's cause they've removed half the salt that used to be in them

A girl I used to work with was a very picky eater and would eat supernoodles for her lunch in Work 3/5 days of the week until they decided to change the recipe apparently 🙈

Interesting dwangela! I might buy some and just add loads of salt and see how they taste. They were so delicious in the 90s.

Potato waffles in the toaster!

When I was at uni I pretty much lived on cheese and bean toasties or fish finger sandwiches. All Tesco's value of course.

Not a meal as such, but the cheapest white sliced bread and the cheapest value sliced ham were staples. My insides must have been gloopy! I feel very lucky that I can now afford to eat better quality food (although white sliced bread sometimes does what no other bread can do!).