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 really well, always have done. Was a good cook and lived with a number of different nationalities so there was always curry and Mexican being cooked.

Weight watchers tinned curry sauce and bean spouts in a pitta bread.
baked potatoes with cottage cheese
Birds Instant Custard with a Twix floating on top.

15 years ago I ate lots of black bread, cream cheese, dried salami and tomato salad. My diet of choice

We ate very well tbf. I shared with the same people for all four years. One person had a part time job in a big supermarket that gave the staff first picks on stuff that going to yellow label (to retain staff as the location was a nightmare). Another one worked in a five star hotel so brought home loads meals from conferences etc where the event was over catered.

Admittedly though of all the food I think of from Uni was bacon sandwiches. We were experts on them and knew how each other liked our bacon. I was the only person who liked smoked and extra crispy.

Same 😂
Me and my house mates thought we had really pushed the boat out if we did a jar of Uncle Ben's sauce...and the chicken was usually undercooked 🤢 Toast was safer.

I've always liked food and been interested in eating.

I went to university in 1992.

I went to the market and bought cheap cuts of meat and fish and vegetables.

And cooked like mad.

Liver, mash and buttered white cabbage with crusty bread in the 80's dead cheap and still my go to meal sometimes.

Lots of cheap quick meals but I wouldn't say too unhealthy actually, probably could have done with more variety though:

Pasta
Jacket potatoes
Omelettes with various veg
Pittas with cheese and salad
Baked salmon
Lots of salads
Soup
Porridge
Maybe beige oven type food once a week?

Also my mum would freeze homecooked meals for me so I'd sometimes have that.

Proud to say I never had ready meals. Think I got one once and was distinctly underwhelmed so never did it again. I was probably 90% vegetarian because I hated cooking meat at the time and also lived in a house of vegetarians. Didn't bother me though!

I did often eat cereal/porridge for dinner or just snack all day though.

Pizza, chicken casserole made with soup, curry pancake roll

Staffordshire Oatcakes with mushrooms and bacon! I was studying in Stoke on Trent at Staffs Uni.

Lunch was a sandwich from sandwich shop and cake then dinner was in halls and 3 courses so ate quite well.

Ryvita and Philadelphia
toast
broccoli & cheese packet pasta
more toast
3 colour pasta twists and grated cheddar cheese
bran flakes
booze

Beans on toast
cereal
super noodles
that was pretty much it 🤣

Lots of things made with red lentils.

Pasta n Sauce packets, although I never had any butter to put in as per instructions.

The local market had a stall that sold these huge lumps of bread pudding, I'm sure for around 50p. They were delicious and filing.

Cheese n onion pasties, chips

Chips. & sweet n sour sauce from the chippy for Sunday tea.

Many people ate Frays Bentos pies.

Cheese toasties.

Tuna, sweetcorn and rice in a Pyrex dish, with Campbells condensed mushroom soup poured over it, and grated cheese and breadcrumbs on top. That takes me right back to the 80s.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0gThe first thing that came to mind was Beanfeast. I seem to remember a few different flavors making up my weekly shop along with jacket potatoes and the occasional trip to the kebab shop in town. Plus loads of jasmine tea.

Someone on my corridor made cheese on toast every day for lunch. It seemed like a total food goal at the time, but I was never organized enough to have both bread and cheese available together.

9p noodles
Frozen veg cooked with pesto or pickle
Pasta. A lot of pasta.
Smart price sauces to go with!

In my second year house share I lived with a British Indian girl who taught me how to make hard boiled egg curry. So delicious! I still make it 30 years later 😁

I also remember a bakery near the university sometimes used to sell bags of leftover stuff for a £1, so some bread rolls, iced buns, pasties etc.

Happy days!

I’d forgotten about that, that was gourmet.

Toast, cereal, pasta with a sauce made from peppers and tinned tomatoes (with tuna added sometimes), cheese and ham toasties, oven chips and fish fingers, salads, cheap pizza deals from Dominos, noodles, frozen veg mix.

I always had apples, oranges and plain yoghurt to snack on.

We had a multi cultural house share (Indian, Mauritian, Jewish and Bangladeshi heritage) so various concerned parents sent food parcels that were shared - samosas, curry, tinned octopus, kheer (Indian rice pidding), apple strudel, apples, soft fruit and oranges (from my fruit obsessed farmer dad)

Nursing Student mid 80's . We lived on brown bread and cheese lots of tea and coffee . Shared everything we had but food was not a focus in our lives .i really don't know how we survived all the partying and the very long hours and hard work .Absolutely crazy looking back but such happy days .

Beanfeast was a staple of my uni diet - easy, tasty and cheap. I remember making macaroni cheese, though often just making the sauce and stirring in pasta rather than baking it.
I can't remember anything else, other than the fruit cake my mum would send back with me after visits.

Mainly toast, marmite, and alcohol.

Sometimes sausage casserole, lots of pasta and rice with not much on it, boil in the bag fish with mash, many jacket potatoes.

It was the fittest I have ever been - sports every day.

Ah yes Beanfeast! And Sosmix.

@OooPourUsACupLove would you mind expanding on the cabbage/ cheese/ peanut thing, please?