food, SEX drugs and rock and roll university is fun (Home Cooking - Helpful Hints and Tips)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Home Cooking - Helpful Hints and Tips
Date:	15/09/02 (683 review reads)
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Advantages: try to eat well, lots of fun, Freedom

Disadvantages: miss mummy , miss daddy, no one to cook for you , do your washing

Congratulations started university?
Moved away from Mum and Dad, Freedom.


Well get the first week or two over, find the uni bar got drunk, go to first lectures feel scared, nervous, alone don?t know where anything is. Meet lots of people; make a few friends join a few clubs.
Sex, drugs, rock and roll cooking for yourself. May be your first time for lots of things
First be careful don?t do anything you don?t want to do (sex) If you want to fine but be careful protect yourselves girls and boys. Babies are easy to make Sweet and cuddly but not yet. They are also easy to avoid. Nasty Diseases are easy to pass on to a sexual partner. Take care
. Condoms can help prevent both of these you may not be promiscuous, sleep around or start uni with the intention of having sex as soon as you get there, but for both young men and young women it might be a good idea to have a condom available just in case, it is easy to get carried away with lust and emotion.
Drugs again are careful. no lecture
Rock and roll make the most of the music scene hope your uni has a good venue for bands
Cooking for yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beans, beans, beans with sausages, beans, beans, noodles beans, beans, beans, spagetti hoops beans.

Hopefully you will be able to cook more than beans on toast. Beans are ok but not every day

It is easier to get together with a group of friends and cook together it is cheaper to buy bigger quantities of food rather than single portions.

Look lovingly at Mum and Dad gets them to buy you a base for your kitchen food store.
Favourite cereal, marmalade/jam, marmite, tins tuna, Pasta, rice, tinned tomatoes, tin peas, tin sweet corn, tea, coffee, dried milk, sugar, salt (you will only need a little,) margarine, cheese, onions, baking potato?s, tins of baked beans. Work out what you eat most days, work out a few easy basic recipes and what basic dried and tinned food you want. A packet


of biscuits to share around, having food to share is a good icebreaker. You may find for a couple of days the canteen is ok but a couple of tins of instant meals as a standby till you get familiar with your new exciting life and a stock of things you will use a little of everyday. Also a washing powder so at least you will be able to was your undies

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Well after a while when you have been to first lectures got to know people, got over the new student nerves, got drunk a few times things settle down it is cheaper to cook for yourself you may of course be in halls with catering provided but if not, Try to eat fairly healthily.
It is more fun to share cooking with others someone to share the washing up with too so make friends with your flat/house/hall mates.

Carbohydrates.
50% of your food should be carbohydrates. Carbohydrates give you energy they are a fuel food. Get your carbohydrates from cereals and grains. Rice, pasta, noodles, potatoes, oats, couscous, breakfast cereals, bread


Dairy
You need about 700mg of calcium a day. Calcium helps to keep your bones and teeth in tip top condition. Best way to get calcium is from dairy products1 pint of milk or 2 pots of yoghurt or 80g hard cheese.

Proteins
10-15% percent of your daily diet essential to build new cells in your body. , Protein comes from meat, fish, eggs, cheese, and milk.


Fat and sugar.
Yes we do need fat and sugar maybe not as much as we do eat 2-3 small portions a day I think you know where to get fat and sugar chips sweets chocolate crisps biscuits pudding say no more.

Fruit and veg it is recommended to eat 5 portions a day




Cheapish fairly easy quite healthy recipes.

Well your breakfast is important, how often have you heard your mother say that. Well she is right. Eat a bowl of cereal with some milk try not to eat a cereal that is covered in sugar. That?s some dairy produ
ct fo

r your bones some protein too and carbohydrates

Or you could always eat some toast. Carbohydrates

Have some fruit juice mmmmm bit expensive all the time

Breakfast should keep you going in the morning lectures maybe stop you falling asleep in lectures



Have a drink at break maybe an apple it?s as cheap as a packet of crisps or a chocolate bar. Buy some at the supermarket cheaper than buying from the canteen or search the market out even cheaper. Mummy won?t mind buying you some if you say mum I really want to eat healthy please can you buy me some apples.

Lunch it may be cheaper to make yourself a cheese/tuna/ ham roll/ sandwich in the morning tomatoes are reasonably cheap at the moment buy 2or 3 and put1 in your sandwich or go back to your flat for a bowl of tinned soup/ beans on toast depending on your timetable. I expect your uni will serve sandwiches chips/baked potatoes in the canteen amongst other food
Carbohydrates, protein, fat 1 portion of veg if you add the tomato.


Supper

Pasta is great quick and easy
Value pasta from Tesco 25p for 500gramms for one person use about 75/80 grams


You can throw a lot of things in pasta and get a good meal .
Tuna, ham, peas, bacon eggs tomatoes, mushrooms, mixed veg, sweet corn cheese sauce, experiment. Its fun.

Tuna Pasta should serve 4
250 g pasta
200 g tuna
400g tin mushroom soup
1onion
1 garlic clove


Lightly fry onion and garlic

Put pasta on to cook per instructions on bag should take 10 mins.

Drain pasta place pasta in an ovenproof dish

Add sweet corn, peas, and mushroom soup tuna mix together
If it looks a little dry add some water or milk

Place in oven at 190%%c for about 20 minutes



Then share with friends or if you are cooking for yourself use half the pasta only the peas or sweet corn half the tin
of tuna. H
ave h
alf today, half tomorrow

This recipe can be adapted leave out the onion, garlic,
Leave out the peas sweet corn cook 175g 6oz broccoli florets
Add a little grated cheese / scatter a little grated cheese on top



Jacket potatoes

Brilliant easy filling basic for a meal quick in a microwave, got no microwave takes 1. ½ hours depending on size in oven at 190%c 375%F gas mark 5 while they are, there is just time for some study, A bonk or a bath/shower.

Potatoes are cheap so good

Serve your potato with some Marge or butter plenty of things you can add to a baked potato to make a filling nutritious meal,
Grated cheese, chilli, I opened a tin of chilli last night and had chilli with one I was too lazy/busy to make my own chilli but you could always make your own the tin was enough for 2 people
Tuna, ham, sausage, baked beans, egg, any of the tins of beans and sausages beans and? Cole slaw sprinkle grated cheese over any of these if you have any. Salad is always a good accompaniment if you can stretch to it


That?s carbohydrate, protein, fat, and dairy in your diet




Mince
It?s cheap meat.
Shepherd?s pie, curry, chilli mince and veg

Shepherd?s/ cottage pie for 2

1lb 900 grams of potato
1 onion
225g mince
1/8 pint stock /water (ask mum to put some stock cubes in your starter larder)
A little oil.

Cook potatoes in boiling water for 15-20 minutes (cut them small they cook quicker) then mash (cheat use instant mash)
Fry onions in a little oil add mince and stock cook till meat browned
Put meat mix in oven proof dish cook in oven for 30 minutes till cooked and browned (time for a quickie)

This is the basic recipe you can add baked beans/ butter beans tinned/frozen / fresh veg, or tin of tomato?s to the mince before you put mash spud on top again if cooking for yourself eat
half save some
for tomorr
ow make it a little different tomorrow by mixing a tin of chilli beans in.


Pizza

Cheap and easy to make

Or cheat and use bread standard cheap white sliced will do but you could use a long baguette, a bread stick cut in half lengthwise or some bread baps (bread rolls)

Cut the bread in half lengthwise toast v lightly on both sides spread one side with tomato ketchup or slice a tomato and arrange it to cover the bread on top of the tomato place ham/tuna/ chicken/ sausage cover with cheese mozzarella or cheddar is fine.
Alternatively use baked beans instead of tomato ketchup
Or put some oil in a frying pan lightly fry onion and garlic till beginning to soften wash and slice some mushrooms and tomato?s thinly add them to the onions cook for 5 more minutes. Place on top of your bread add ham /sausage if you haven?t got it just the tomato base is fine finish of by putting cheese on top this tomato onion base sauce is good for pasta too

I sometimes cheat by buying a jar of tomato pasta sauce

Lightly toast until cheese is bubbly (no time for a bonk while this one is cooking)


You could always finish of with fruit or value yoghurt for desert
Then there is time for a bonk(remember to use a condom) or study


Experiment ask your mum for a basic cookery book have fun cooking for yourself and friends

I have just moved my sausage casserole and pizza opps to the top read them they might help

Have fun enjoy yourselves mum and dad are there to help if you need them, they will love been asked for advice/tips. Remember they were young once too made the mistakes you will make. They only love you want you to do well give them a phone call now and then. Remember take care of yourself.

LOL Mumsy yes after writing this I think I shall sign myself Mumsy not Mary as I usually do

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