What did you eat when you were a student?

[Sunnytoday01]

I’m going back to the ‘80s but my diet was rubbish and I couldn’t cook. I used to eat a lot of toast and a hot meal would be Richmond sausages, smash potato and mushy peas or baked beans. My housemates and I would eat a cheese and tomato oven pizza occasionally. I even liked a pot noodle 🤣

I eat completely differently now but I can’t believe how awful my diet was and I didn’t seem to mind!

I ate a lot of pasta with tinned tomatoes, tuna and sweetcorn.

Oh wow, I had completely forgotten about that, I used to have pasta with condensed cream of mushroom soup as well. 😄

I worked in a gym receptionist in the evenings which was part of a hotel, hotel cook would make me a toastie and chips every evening, then my house mate worked in a thai food take away he would always have a cartoon of food every night for me which I would eat next day..those were the days.. cheap rent free food 😂

Ryvita, coffee, Jaffa cakes, cold tuna from the tin, coffee, cocktails, coffee

In my first year, in halls: toast, wholewheat noodles with hoisin sauce stirred through, toasted sandwiches. Dinners were catered but I’m veggie so lots of jacket potatoes, the occasional lasagne or moussaka. Silk Cut and Diet Pepsi featured daily.

When we lived in a flat after the first year, we made loads of pizza from scratch. Chilli with soya mince (only available dried from health food shop). Curries with Quorn chunks.

So much value pasta, tomato sauce and cheap cheese. Lived on it.

Loads of pasta, loads of bran flakes and loads of alcohol. Food just wasn’t a priority.

Cheese and crackers, copious amount of black instant coffee with two spoons of sugar.

Otherwise nothing.

Hardly anything, I was anorexic.

I was a student while mad cow disease was on. An American once asked me if I was worried about catching it and I fell about laughing. I don't think I ate beef during the whole four years.

We were used to dream of 'Richmond sausages, smash potato and mushy peas and baked beans.'

Best we could do was some old cotton rags, from t'mill where our mam worked, steeped in coal slag, crushed by father's clogs in hearth, after comin' 'ome from t'pit.

Cupasoup or hot chocolate and whatever fruit was being sold cheap in the market

Big bowls of pasta, m&ms, chocolate croissants and whiskey and Coke. Remained a small size eight without even trying. To have that metabolism back...

Spaghetti bolognaise
curries
ramen noodles
pasta bakes
chinese take away
dominoes pizza - the chicken strippers in particular
toasted sandwiches
loaded potatoes-like loaded fries but I used baby potatoes. I also didn’t call them “loaded” that wasn’t a term used then (20 years ago) but essentially it was a concoction I created.
anything really…

Early 1980s. In the first few months after I met the man who eventually became (and still is) Mr Gasp, we ate in the college refectory or the student union most evenings. Appalling food, looking back. In the late afternoon/very early evening the refectory really just had short order stuff available. My standard order was sausage, egg and chips and Mr Gasp's was double egg and chips. I vividly remember the night the short order cook, a man in his 40s, looked at me seriously and said 'I couldn't eat like you do'. That made me think. He was right. No vegetables other than potatoes in the form of chips! I love vegetables! We moved in together not long after that and I started cooking properly.

Mind you, there was a lot of Beanfeast in those early years. Anybody else remember that? It came in a packet and I think it was soya mince that you just heated up on the hob with water. Very useful when we bought our first house (1986) and had no fridge for a couple of weeks.

3 of us used to cook together. We had a massive chest freezer which we filled termly after a massive shop in Iceland.
We ate like kings! The usual stuff, but always a roast in Sundays, chicken, lamb or duck. We had baked trout, chicken casserole, spag bol, gammon, chops, pork steaks, let ads of salads in the summer. I used to hate going home - my mum never used rice or pasta. Meat and two veg had fit her through the War so why did we need fancy stuff 😁

I was veggie so:

Toast for breakfast
Veg chilli and jacket potato or veg soup and a roll from the Student's Union. If feeling flash quiche with salads from the Refectory
Pasta with tomato sauce, veg and cheese, or veggie chilli/curry or soup

Lots of Indian food shops, so a great selection of food.
We walked lots into campus and back, as well as went out clubbing a lot, so lots of dancing.

Lived in catered halls first year, so fairly school dinner style. Shared house second and third year, but we shopped, cleaned and cooked on a rota, so ate together. Meat 2/3 x a week, but lots of veggie stuff - so baked bean lasagne - recipe from grub on a grant, stir fried rice, spag bol, chilli/bean chilli, ratatouille, cottage pie, sausage casserole, tuna pasta bake, occasional egg and beans on toast or with oven chips

This was late 80s/early 90s

In the 90s, I weighed 8 stone. Nothing for breakfast, Cheese bap for lunch, pasta for tea with some sort of veg sauce, if I ate tea. Or a takeout pizza slice on way home from pub. Lots of toast in the kitchen after the pub.

occasionally an apple for health.

once a month or so we’d club together and cook a roast.

I used to get dried beans in bulk and cook them with fajita seasoning and vegetables and then eat it out of the pot it was cooked in for the whole week. I used to drink a crate of Stella and smoke a ten deck a day as well, but at least I got my veggies in.

Porridge for breakfast, with a mug of tea, so I started the day quite well.

White roll with Laughing cow cheese triangles and Fanta for lunch.

Dinner - frozen pizza, or uncle Ben sweet and sour jar with rice, or pasta with onion, mushrooms and grated cheese, the occasional McDonald’s.

I’m a reasonably good cook now!

Pasta mostly. And a lots of chips and cheese at 3 in the morning.

Supernoodles. But not the branded ones - the 9p a packet ones from Kwik save.

On payday I might add some sweetcorn to be fancy.

Like all the others I mostly survived on cider and Lambert and Butler lights 😄

Pasta mainly in the evenings, jacket potato for lunch on campus. I don't remember being plagued by food noise. I ate for fuel, rather than pleasure which is why I was very slim. Now I'm an absolute foodie gannet and not so slim. I also smoked a lot at uni which probably contributed to the lack of food noise.