College student looking for quick, cheap, healthy recipes?

Question

I am living in an apartment, and I'm getting sick of eating nothing but coffee, soup, and pizza. I could really use some good home cooked recipes. What I look for are cheap, quick, easy, healthy...etc. Thanks!

Answer 1

Vegetable Pie:
2 cups Chopped Zucchini ( 500mL)
1 cup chopped Tomatoes ( 250mL)
1/2 cup chopped Onion ( 125mL)
1/3 cup grated Parmesan Cheese ( 75mL)
11/2 cup Milk (375mL)
3/4 cup Bisquick mix ( 175mL)
3 Eggs
1/2 tsp Salt and 1/4 tsp Pepper ( 2mL & 1mL)
Heat your oven to 400*F ; Grease a large pie plate
Mix first 4 ingredients in plate
Beat remaining ingredients until smooth ( 15 seconds in blender or 1 minute on high with mixer). Pour into plate.
Bake until knife inserted in center comes out clean. About 30 minutes. Cool about 5 min. before cutting.

Hamburger Surprise:
1lb hamburger ( 450g)
2 boxes Kraft dinner
1 can ( any kind of soup)
1 med. onion, chopped
1 cup vegetables ( your choice)
add your own spices.
Cook the hamburger & onion, add the spices together in frying pan. Cook Kraft according to pkg. directions. When Kraft is almost done, add vegetables, when done, drain. Add to hamburger along with soup and heat through..

Answer 2

Cook rice and beans or lentils in chicken broth with onions, garlic and plenty of vegetables, either canned or fresh. For variety, use 1/2 tomato juice or V8 and 1/2 broth. The combinations are endless. Also, see what's cheap in the meat department, see what's in the discounted vegetables and make soup. Again, you use whatever is handy and cheap. Don't forget to check out farm stands and farmer's markets. Get a crock pot! Make a pasta casserole. 1/2 lb pasta, cooked; spaghetti sauce (your favorite brand and flavor) and 1 lb of mozzarella cheese. Add vegetables if desired. Bake until heated through. Macaroni & cheese. Add 1/4 lb of diced ham and some sliced tomatoes before you bake it, or to the pan on top of the stove. Best of luck!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Take 1/2 cup of cooked brown rice, dump 1/2 cup of Progresso Black Bean Soup or Lentil Soup over the rice and heat in the microwave. When it's piping hot, put grated sharp cheddar cheese over top, let it melt up, then eat. If you are on a budget, you can get four meals from one can of soup with this "recipe." And individual portions freeze up perfectly fine. For the rice, you can cook it in the microwave; one cup uncooked brown rice to two cups water.

Answer 5

Meat of your choice, fixed the way you want it. Add potatoes or rice, & a vegetable & salad to the menu. Lots of choices here.

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Spaghetti With Sauce

1 jar spaghetti sauce, your choice
1 lb. ground chuck, optional
onion, chopped (optional)
spaghetti, enough for however many you're fixing for

Crumble & brown meat in a skillet; drain well. Cook spaghetti as instructed below. While spaghetti is cooking heat the sauce. Pour sauce into a GLASS bowl, add the drained meat mixture, stir, cover with lid (important), place in microwave & heat on high for about 5 minutes. When spaghetti is done & sauce is heated, serve as you like. Great with a salad, garlic bread, & iced tea!

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PERFECT PASTA EVERYTIME

1 lb. uncooked spaghetti
1 gal. water, rolling boil

Place spaghetti into a deep pot of boiling, salted water. The salt & excess water help to prevent sticking, & allows the starch to cook off. After adding spaghetti, return the water to a rolling boil (do NOT cover with lid). Boil spaghetti for 2 MINUTES EXACTLY, then cover with lid, & remove pot from fire, let set for 5 MINUTES for el dente (firm) spaghetti. Drain, toss with oil or butter—olive oil is best. Or better yet, instead of coating with oil or butter mix in a LITTLE bit of the sauce, because adding oil may keep the sauce from sticking to the pasta.

The same can be done with any type of pasta. Just adjust cooking & standing time according to size & thickness of pasta being cooked.

NOTE: 1 lb. uncooked spaghetti equals 4 servings, or so they say!   It really depends on size of the appetite!

TIPS:
Never add salt to pasta water, because it will make the pasta tough.

When draining pasta in a colander heat the colander with hot water first, because a cold colander will make the pasta stick together.

Answer 6

Here's one I used to use quite often. Cheap and easy.
Cook a box of macaroni and cheese following instructions on box. Drain a can of tuna, add that and a can of mushroom soup. Mix and stir all together. That's it.

Answer 7

get yourself some staples:

some good things to have on hand:
rice
beans (lentils are easiest to cook with, other beans if you like)
couscous, or other pasta
spices (cumin, herbs de provence, salt pepper, etc.)
limes (always useful to have on hand, use it in combination with cumin)
garlic
..

there are a lot of recieps you can find on the net google cheap easy recipes.

Answer 8

Whole wheat pasta with pasta sauce
Stir-fry veggies (frozen is precut and ready to use)
Rice and beans

Answer 9

Go to Culinary Chef at http://www.culinarychef.com for recipes.

Answer 10

when i was in college i'd cook one big meal on the weekend an make meals out of it all week....... like i'd make a beef roast then durin week have beef an noodles, hot roast beef sandwich or bbque beef...... did same with pork an chicken..... hope this helps an good luck.