Pasta, beans and cheese

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Catching up with some old uni mates at the weekend, we started reminiscing about some of our staple culinary creations. Pasta with baked beans and cheese (plenty off Lee and Perkins and black pepper) being one of my frequent contributions. I remember I had a friend at school who regularly had this, but my mum refused to cook it for me. So clearly I ran with my new found independence and gave it a regular slot on my menu. Clearly over did it mind because it’s not something I’ve ever had since. Any one else ever have this? Or fancy sharing any other master chef uni meals?

My friend made me this once at university but for some reason I've never made it since. I think I'm afraid to try to recreate it in case it's horrible and my memories are tarnished

Ooooh, I didn't eat that but I could have done.

I used to regularly eat a Mars Bar toastie, washed down by Smirnoff ice mixed with red bull.

Great way to start an evening 🤢

Actually, that's almost the classic Italian Pasta e fagioli, except with a few minor substitutions.

Yes! We had that a lot.
Also, mashed potatoes with cooked chopped vegetables and chopped up meat/fish leftovers fried up to make glorified bubble/rissoles.
I made a mean lentil shepherd's pie too!

Also, many, many pot noodles 🤮

When I was 18 and travelling on my gap year I had this... Regularly!! I couldn't cook a damn thing and would often look longingly at other traveler's culinary masterpieces whilst adding my beans to my pasta

We used to buy home pride pasta bake, economy pasta and add whatever was reduced. So it might be chicken in it, sausage, smoked sausage, tuna, etc. If you were lucky cheese. We ate that almost every single day. I couldn't eat it now!

A takeaway was a portion of korma sauce and two nan breads between three of us. Again adding to the sauce whatever was in the reduced section.

Regular meal when I was a student nurse (olden days before Project 2000).

I could cook. I just couldn't be bothered after a long shift.

I still eat pasta beans and cheese 😬

Lots of pot noodles, cheese toasties, cereal for dinner!

I used to love cooking and would make really nice dinners like homemade curry, posh sausages or pie from the speciality shops in town, with an assortment of veg. When it was my housemates turn she made a tin of tomato soup, with a tin of potatoes and some pasta in it

Another housemate always made her famous Stilton pasta which stunk the house out. Cheese and potato pie was another one - although that was actually quite tasty! Mash with cheese in it. On top of tinned tomatoes. Quite fancy that now tbh

Pasta covered in condensed soup as a sauce, well my housemates ate it. I joined in to be sociable but it was a bit grim.

Toast with a scraping of marge, salt and vinegar.
Tinned chopped tomatoes with any available veg and pasta
Beans on toast
Beanfeast with pasta
Jacket potato & beans
Aldi jam tarts
Misshapen/ slightly burnt baked goods from the Greg's outlet shop
Apples
Can't say I miss that diet!

@auntienumber8 Yes, we had pasta, sweetcorn and condensed mushroom soup topped with toast and cheese. It was actually a recipe in a student cook book!

Pizza toast.

Curried baked beans on toast.

Canned fish in tomato sauce - on toast.

Cheese, onion and tomato toastie - or egg/cheese & beans toastie if feeling adventurous.

Pasta with tomato sauce/salad cream, chopped tinned meat or fish/sandwich paste, tinned sweetcorn/chopped tomato and salt and pepper.

I couldn't eat that!
I just loved on toast tbh

I lived on alternating pasta with tinned tomatoes - nothing else except mixed herbs - and jacket potatoes with tuna and sweetcorn. That and cornflakes was all I ate unless I happened to have a boyfriend who liked cooking...

Not especially weird but dull - and cheap! I needed to save my money for wine books as I did a very book intensive course... Also yes wine...

I seem to have survived and cook every bloody day now, at home and at work, never the same thing more than twice in a month for the main meal, though if I was just cooking for myself I'd probably revert to two or three basic, quick favourites - porridge made with milk and a chopped banana is my absolute favourite meal ever these days, if I only have myself to think of, I think I'd be happy enough to live on that and maybe one or two other things

The meals that stick in my memory are a plain tomato and butter bap from the bakery next to the drama department - used to have one before any morning lecture. Then at lunchtime, it'd be an egg mayo and cress bap with half a packet of cheese 'n onion crisps crushed into it from the Union cafe. A popular after-the-pub meal was a chunk of square fish in batter from the Mei-Wah (Chinese) with bright orange sweet 'n sour sauce. Good times!

Beanfeast with pasta
Cheese on baked potatoes
Pizza toast

Fusilli, tuna, mayonnaise and either chopped tomatoes with herbs or sweetcorn
Cheese and potato pie, cheesy mash on top of a tin of ratatouille
Butter beans with bacon and black pepper
Kitchen sink frittata, leftover veg/potatoes and cheese, bacon too if you were lucky
Gallons of vegetable or lentil soup, whatever was on offer, boiled with a stock cube and whizzed up
Toad in the hole (for some reason, Waitrose nearly always had sausages for 19p a packet in the reduced aisle)
Cheese souffle - pretentious but cheap!
Fish balls - tinned tuna or salmon, onion and matzo meal/breadcrumbs, held together with egg and deep fried
Crushed ginger nuts layered with Greek yoghurt and tinned mandarins

I ate jacket potatoes with tinned tomatoes or fresh if they were cheap and I would grill them thinking I was fancy. I'd put loads of cheap low fat spread on the jacket potato and some cheap cheddar cheese. I ate one of these potatoes a day for the first year at uni, and pretty much nothing else, in a bid to lose weight. It worked, but I couldn't eat one now!!!

My daughter is 4 years old and she’s about to start school. Her name it’s Elma and I’m worried she might get bullied due to her name being similar to other characters. The thing is she’s used to her name now so I don’t know what to do. Any thoughts please..
I’m thinking to change her name to Emmeline instead or Emmeline Elma..

As a student I virtually lived off dippy eggs and toast with cheese doorstep sandwiches.

As a young couple we regularly had my ex's mother's pasta, beans (baked kidney and others) and cheese but in the most lovely homemade ragu.

I still eat it if desperate for a fast eat
And pasta with pesto and cheese

Best uni food that I’ve not eaten recently was potato waffle sandwiches, with cheese and red sauce

Supernoodles sandwiches

@Lola231

My daughter is 4 years old and she’s about to start school. Her name it’s Elma and I’m worried she might get bullied due to her name being similar to other characters. The thing is she’s used to her name now so I don’t know what to do. Any thoughts please.. I’m thinking to change her name to Emmeline instead or Emmeline Elma..

@Lola231 - I think you're in the wrong thread.