Lovelyish

Pita bread and hummus.

@B2yan_C@xanga - Yes! Also, I always appreciated the simplicity of those microwaveable bags of Uncle Ben’s rice and instant mashed potatoes.

bananas and cereal bars

Ohh lots of bread, milk, and Nature Valley bars.  mmm

cereal bars work for on the go. I’ma say: yogurt, cereal, breakfast bars, easy mac, ramen, sammich supplies, ALL fruit, brita pitcher (i know its not food!) and yes, peanut butter and crackers

bagels. oodles and oodles of bagels, haha.

Cereal bars, yoghurt, bananas.

I love all these, except poptarts! Actually I lalalove poptarts but they make me feel like crap when i eat them. even though i did that while backpacking.. but easymac, pbandj, soup n cereal are my main go-to’s at college!

this should be called “5 foods to gain the freshman 15 with no nutrition”

Ew, way to get fat in a semester… I learned how to cook in college.

I live at home and I still eat all of these, but I much rather cook.

I’d rather not. You’ll find fresh fruit, veg, whole wheat, lean meat, spices, and olive oil in my dorm. And of course the dishes I make from those ingredients. I’ve considered writing a book on eating healthy, fast, and cheap in college. I’m proof it can be done.

@Murphy_Rants@xanga - When I was in college, I definitely didn’t have the money to eat healthy. I wish I had, but it wasn’t possible.

Some of these comments rubbed me the wrong way., some of them scoffed at the way some college kids eat. I’m glad that a majority of you had money while you were in college, but some of us scraped by and didn’t have much of a choice. My experience was eat cheap or don’t eat.

Ramen, because I can add veggies. And it’s like cents a pack.

@Saridactyl@xanga - I hate the excuse that you can’t afford to eat healthily. It’s cheaper than buying crap, that’s for sure. Buy HEALTHY cereals, instant noodles and canned veggies and fruits…they last for ages and are dirt cheap to buy and easy to store.

@written_conversations@xanga - I’m sorry, but you don’t know me or what my financial status was when I was in college. Sure, some people make excuses, but don’t make general statements like that when you really have no clue.

this is a very worrying list….

my list

1. Museli, high fibre cereal

2. skim milk

3. brown bread

4. eggs

5. cans of beans – kidney beans, chickpeas

ha, I could easily buy healthy food to eat but I actually WISH I could have these as staples. I have a gluten allergy and can not eat a single thing on this list =/ No need to talk trash about cheap food, if you absolutely could not have it you’d miss it.

@written_conversations@xanga - another issue with a lot of these comment (I am not trying to single you out at all!) is that a lot of people don’t have a way to cook healthy foods that can’t be eaten raw. Not all dorms allow microwaves and some dorms (I know my first dorm was like this) don’t have kitchens for residents to use. So it really comes down to whats cheap and what can be eaten without being cooked. 

And really, this list wasn’t saying this was the ONLY thing you should eat in college, it was just saying these are good to keep on hand…like when you over sleep and can’t get to the dining hall for breakfast. It was one persons list. It doesn’t need to be trashed.

@Saridactyl@xanga - I don’t have money either. I just eat the same stuff over and over again and buy something different next week.

I always had oatmeal. Always! I lived off roman noodles too.

I depend upon “handy fruit” like apples and plums.

All of these are good. I found out at the end of my last semester to keep bagels, strawberry cream cheese, and grapes around at all times. Other than that, cereal, peanut butter/jelly and bread, and poptarts without frosting were usually around.

Yes to all, but Pop-Tarts, which are heinous

1 – garbage, colored yellow to be appetizing

2 – hydrogenated fats and garbage sugar3 – sodium, water4 – pretty much carb garbage5 – absolutely garbage amounts of sugar
I would say frozen vegetables, frozen chicken, eggs, and plenty of water.

Boiled eggs, brown rice & lentils (with olive oil and soy sauce), organic veggies, organic fruits =

Very affordable, very fulfilling.

I seriously hate ramen. My roommates make it all the time, the smell of it just grosses me out.

@Saridactyl@xanga - no, that’s true, but it’s a lot cheaper in the long run to buy tinned fruit and vegetables to eat as snacks, as opposed to instant pasta and biscuits.

Dried fruit.  

ramen

Oatmeal. Soup. Cereal. Fruit. Hummas. Carrots. Celery. Frozen Chicken. Frozen Fish. Raman. Lean Cuisines. And… when i needed (or still need) comfort Stoffers Frozen Lassagna in Meat Sauce

@Jenny_Wren@xanga - Yum to the rice and lentils. 

Apples!!!

@kathrynroseee@xanga - “So it really comes down to whats cheap and what can be eaten without being cooked.”

- yeah, and plenty of things can be eaten raw and are healthy. I lived for a year without a microwave or a refrigerator and I managed just fine – fruits, vegetables, crackers, healthy bread with spreads…it’s really not hard to eat healthily. Yeah, it can get boring, but when you’re on a budget, you sometimes have to be repetitive.