Cooking in College

Buy carbs (rice, pasta, potatoes, oats) in bulk. If you're on a budget, these will act as a base for your dishes. For protein get eggs, chicken (thigh, breast), beans, dairy (milk, greek yogurt, cottage cheese). Fruits, veggies, and spices vary depending on what you feel like cooking.

As for main recipes, start with basic rice/pasta dishes since it's really hard to mess those up.
Don't use cookbooks. They are a meme for the mentally challenged.

>200 dollar for food
>in NYC
Good luck

buy chicken thighs from costco, remove bone, use seasoning method like this
youtube.com/watch?v=42Q3cNKoYxI
then pan fried each side 5 mins, medium heat

Good post user :D

how do you buy stuff in bulk?

OLIV OIL

IN

>$200
>NYC
LOL???? maybe if you get the $1 pizza slices that litter manhattan

It's simple really just prepare meals ahead of time.

So you'll be bulking meals. Aim for meals that cook 3-4 servings, for a week. And you'll be freezing and using those meals over time, DO NOT buy for a small one off meal. DO NOT try to go fancy and buy expensive meats like lobster or king salmon (whole fish), you'll burn a hole in your pocket.

Remember that you'll be wanting meals that use bulk ingredients that you can buy (e.g. bag of potatos, bag of onions, bags of anything with a large quantity), the reason is purely because the amount is useful.

For the love of god, don't buy unnecessary things. Sips aren't a necessity, neither is sugar, nor salt (because most things have enough sodium). You will not be buying fresh vegetables with $200, better off buying frozen vegetables in my opinion.

I'll write some simple recipes that me and my dad eat (we're bargain shoppers cause we've lived most of our lives poor).

A little bit of olive oil... about six table spoons.

So: Potato is an essential, got a nice amount of carbs/calories and is pretty tasty. With a bag of brown unbrushed potatos, you can do either:

-Jacket Potatos with mince (250g of mince, split a 500g or 1kg bag for this). The way you do that is to bake the potato with the skin on (wash it first thoroughly) and cut a cross into it, after cooked until soft, remove and put a dollop of margarine in between potato. During the time it takes to cook the potato, cook some mince in a pan; usually we use a packet called "rich beefy mince" which is like a gravy effectively, gives it a lot of flavor. But you could add spices in like dried herbs, some pepper, or whatever packet mix you fancy. This will allow for flavor to be added, but isn't needed.

-Mashed potatos with veg, and slab of meat. Simple, only thing complex is the mash, i use a little bit of skim milk, no butter, and a dollop of crushed garlic.

-Roasted potato and chicken. Cooking chicken breast can be hard if you're new to cooking. You don't want it dry, and you definitely don't want it raw. Two ways to cook it that I do, pan or oven. If you bake the chicken, don't bake it next to the potatoes, bake seperately, and follow chicken.ie/chicken-facts-tips/chicken-cooking-chart.218.html for basic idea of how long to cook for. If in pan, cook till white, cut small gash in middle, if still pink, keep cooking. Can broil it in lemon juice for extra zing. Cook in oven, 1 big potato or 2 small (one person shouldn't need too much) and a 4-cut carrot. Simple, tasty, easy.

go to the Dorsia, faggot

Salad ideas that go far. Boil some egg, bit of lettuce, if wanting a bite, add some ranch and bacon. Do one big batch for mileage on it. throw in some grated carrot (not too much). If you want, get some mushrooms and add as well. This if done right, will be a luxury that can last for a two-three day period off of one person who isn't a glutton.

A toss salad is just lettuce, tomato (if you fancy), carrot, onion, selected dressing (if any; i just use pepper and sweet chilli sauce when serving) and a dash of lemon juice.

Ultimately though, you can't go wrong with cheap meat and potatoes, maybe some rice and chicken or if you're really wanting a long drawn meal, some soup. but there's too many to count.

Something I've been doing a lot lately is buying chicken thighs with skin, and baking them in the oven @425 so the skin gets nice and crispy. 30 minutes in I throw in broccoli or misc vegetables with olive oil and garlic so it can cook alongside it. Then let it go another 25 minutes. Its super easy, healthy (I'm on keto, so I mainly do it with broccoli/cauliflower/low carb veggies) and you can cook it in bulk and pair it with rice or whatever tickles your fancy. See if someone has access to sam's club or another bulk store- chicken thighs are like 99 cents a pound. 5 bucks for a week of chicken-y goodness.

Make a fucking omlette brah

Make burritos in bulk and fill them with whatever you want. Put some in the fridge, rest in the freezer if you have a lot. Convenient, controlled nutrition for days if not more. Costs me a little over a dollar per burrito and they each have just over 20g of protein per.

CBR is all you need. Get clever with the chicken and you can survive on it for months on end, without getting bored.

Nobody thanked you? What has Veeky Forums become. Thanks user for the wonderful advice, it's good to see something better than retarded shitposting.

Since it's NYC as well, a good idea is to make some delicious chicken stew. Nice, hearty and steaming hot to fill up your belly and give you that warm, comfy feeling on a cold day. There's a few recipes around, try and find some that suit you. Great freezing food too, a good casserole is a solid choice too.