I'm a university student. How do I save money on food? Is there some special (fast and cheap) cooking recipes?

Its called Ramen Noodles. I thought every college student lived on them. Also spaghetti is really cheap and easy.I'm a university student. How do I save money on food? Is there some special (fast and cheap) cooking recipes?
I ate a lot of pasta garlic bread, eggs bacon toast, stir frys while in college. First because it easy and cheap, and seconded because it tasted good.





For pasta I used the flavored tomato sauces, not spaghetti sauce too expensive and too much sugar, flavored tomato sauce about $0.69 vs $2.00 + for spaghetti sauce. Also you can make lasagna with or without meat. Stir frys, I used to buy cheap frozen mixed vegetables, (I hated chopping and frozen was easy and quick).





I only had one medium sauce pan, one fry pan and a 5 qt cooking pot and I made through college oh I also had one good spice rack.





Look for sales and stock up as much as you can.





I pasted a link for cheapcooking, haven't tried them yet.





Good luck and good cookingI'm a university student. How do I save money on food? Is there some special (fast and cheap) cooking recipes?
Buy generic/store brands. Stuff like tuna fish is usually pretty cheap (.50 a can here). I can live off about $10 in groceries a week, sometimes less. And I eat three times a day most of the time.





But I'm a tightwad.
Dumpster dive! I've heard that supermarkets throw out a lot of perfectly good food.





Brown rice is tasty and filling, must be healthier than cheap noodles, and is cheap if you buy it in bulk.
cheap spaghetti noodles and cheap ketchup will fill you up. add some cheap bread, garlic powder and margarine spread on it with some cheap red wine and you have a goumet meal. you may want to add some salad, dandelion leaves are actually nutritious i hear and are readily available, in season of course.
';La! La! La! La! La!, I am loving it!';





Let's see. For Macdonald's dollar menu's $1 hamburger:





breakfast: $1 x 2


lunch: $1 x 2


dinner: $1 x 2


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$6 per day





what a deal!
There is a ramen noodle cookbook out there. They have some good, fast recipes. Also, anything in a can is cheap and fast.
Buy a rice cooker, make rice.
Ramen noodles are 10 cents a package at wal-mart.


You don't even need a microwave in a pinch--just put in a bowl with the hottest tap water and the seasoning, and check them until they're ready to eat.


Also, mac %26amp; cheese, pasta with sauce.
bean burritos, chicken and rice, mac and cheese, and what everyone else said.
10 for $1 on sale: ramen, egg, 1 green onion....yummy! ate it thru college.
DIY!





Go hunting, drop a deer, fill your freezer with free, healthy meat. Get a 50 lb bag of potatoes, and you're set for the school year.