Does anyone have any quick, easy recipes for a college student?

Question

I'm a university student and I live alone. I've been trying to eat well but a lot of the time, I find I don't have time to make dinner for myself and I get fast food or just snack, and I know it's a really unhealthy thing to do.
Does anyone have any quick, easy recipes that would work for me?
I know the basics, like spaghetti and macaroni and cheese, so I don't need to know how to make those.
Also, I eat chicken and fish but no other types of meat.

Answer 1

Hi. I am a mum of 4 and have found some quick meals that don't cost much, are healthy enough and taste good!

Idea No. 1.

Noodle Stir Fry.
First cook a packet of instant noodles in water. Drain
In pan add a tiny bit of oil and fry some chicken/fish. Add some frozen vegetables (corns and peas are nice) and the flavouring sachet from the noodles. Add the noodles. Fry and eat. YUM

Idea No. 2.

Mexican Chili Rice.
Buy a can of Mexican Re-fried beans. Cook in a pan with a chopped up tomato and a little chicken mince and half a sachet of taco seasoning.
Serve on a bed of rice with a little salsa and some sour cream. YUM

Idea No. 3

Chicken Pesto Pasta
Cook some pasta.
In a pan stir fry some chicken pieces, when brown add a spoonful of basil pesto (buy pre-made or mix up a handful of finely chopped basil, half a teaspoon of minced garlic and a teaspoon of olive oil), half a cup of cream and a big handful of grated parmesan cheese. Serve on the pasta with a crunchy fresh salad or broccoli stir fried with nuts in olive oil. YUM.

Hope you like these...

Answer 2

5 Quick & Easy Recipes for Starving College Students----
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Answer 3

You can buy some of those frozen foods at Costco or Safeway (I don`t really know what stores you have in the mainland). Like get some of those pizzas, french fries, chickens, veggies, fish and stuff.
And add some garlic or french bread on the side plus a healthy salad :]
You can also never go wrong with canned soup. You can choose from many different kinds like tomato, chicken noodle, chili, minestroni, corn chowder, cream of mushroom, clam chowder, beef vegetable ETC ETC.

Plus, try this awesome thing to eat. Just heat up some tomato soup and add some cooked rice in the soup. Then serve. It`s pretty good :]

Answer 4

Hmmm...you don't like fish eh? I might be able to change your mind lol. My boyfriend HATES fish, all kinds, but I got him to like this dish that I came up with. Its just Salmon and egg noodles. You'll need: 1 Egg Bread Crumbs[or just some crumbled up saltines] 1 small pack in your case, of the Chicken Of The Sea Salmon Egg Noodles Salt And Butter. All you do is boil the egg noodles. While they are boiling, take the Salmon and empty it into a bowl. Add the egg, and about a cup of bread crumbs, just enough to make the mixture come together. And also about 1 and a half tablespoons of butter, its really what you prefer. The more butter you put, obviously the more buttery it will taste. lol. Mix that all together and melt some butter in a frying pan. Cook the mixture, breaking it up into pieces as you do, just until it is browned. I'd say for about 5-10 minutes. Make sure you stir a lot, you don't want it to burn. After thats done, your noodles should be cooked so strain them and then add about 4 tablespoons of butter, just enough to coat the noodles. Then add a few pinches of salt, mainly to your tastes. After thats finished add the salmon mixture and stir. I promise you'll fall in love with the dish if you try it. Its super easy and I make it all the time after a workout or soccer/softball game. But if you end up not liking it [if you try it] then I guess I was wrong lol. But hope I helped, even though you don't like fish. ehhh =/

Answer 5

In the frozen foods section, you can buy stir-fry mixes, that already have all the vegetables cut up, as well as chicken or shrimp or whatever. All you do is put a little oil in a pan and stir fry it for a few minutes. It's a very easy way to make a really healthy meal. If you need a little more to fill you up, pop a boil-in-bag of rice on the stove and serve it with the stir fry.

Answer 6

Boil chicken breasts (not too much water). When done, remove chicken and keep 1 cup of stock.

In a pan, melt 2 tablespoons butter, mix with 1/4 cup flour. Mix until smooth. Add chicken stock, mix well. In separate bowl, take 1 carton heavy cream, and whip. Fold in 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese, 2 tablespoons white wine and 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg. Slowly fold in chicken stock mixture.

Boil enough broccoli to cover bottom of a casserole dish (or cake pan depending on what's available).

Preheat oven to 500 degrees (Fahrenheit).

Place broccoli on bottom of casserole, set chicken on top, pour gravy-mixture top of that and sprinkle 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese. Place in oven until cheese on top turns golden-brown.

Enjoy!

This should make about three servings, so you can make the leftovers quick and easy the next few times.

Also, if you're feeling lazy, you can stop the gravy mixture once you've added the chicken stock to the flour and butter. It tastes so much better with the whipped cream and cheese though. Sometimes I add (cooked) rice underneath the broccoli to soak up the extra gravy.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Make chili with ground beef or ground turkey. Initially it's not quick per se, but it's still easy to make and you get several meals out of it. You basically just throw several ingredients together.

ground beef (browned and drained
(or grond turkey)
kidney beans (2-3 cans)
and black beans
or a mixture of those and black beans
1 lg. can crushed tomatoes
1 tsp. cumin
cayenne pepper (careful)
green pepper (chopped)
med. onion (chopped)
4 tbs. chili powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbs. parsley
chopped green peppers
2 cloves crushed fresh garlic (or 1 tsp garlic powder)

Drain and rinse the beans, put in a med saucepan. Add the rest of the ingredients, and some water to add liquid and mix well. Cover and simmer slowly for a few hours, stirring occasionally.

Serve with some shredded cheese (reduced fat is fine). I like chopped raw onion on top of mine too... not sure where I got that from. And a little sour cream if you like.

Answer 9

im so glad you ask so if you like fish like halibut or even salmon which is in season you can make fish tacos with a wheat or even spinach wrap( can be bought at whole foods or any healthly produce store) marinate your fish in cilantro garlic lemon juice and sear in a pan 5 mins or each side for well done 4 mins for medium or 2to 3 mins for rare then sautee some red onions and multi color bell peppers. As a side you can make some spanish rice by adding some kind of tomato sauce spagetti sauce or tomato paste to chicken stock to make a broth then add it to rice ratio of rice to water is 1cup rice to 1 1/2 cups liquid then when rice is almost done add 1 cup of frozen assorted veggies to rice salt and pepper to taste i promise you it will take about 20mins bon apetite

Answer 10

Breakfast tacos. We eat them for any meal.

Eggs, scrambled
Cheese, shreaded cheddar works good
Salsa, any
Tortillas, corn or flour

Put the first 3 into the 4th.

You could also make some chicken with taco seasoning and put that in there too.

Optional additions:
Sour cream
Onions
Olives
Lettuce
and anything else that sounds good