May 19

What healthy, cheap, quick, vegetarian meals can i make at university?

Hey everyone, happy new year!!

I have been living off microwaveable macaroni cheese ready meals at uni and my new year's resolution is to start cook myself healthy meals!
I need to balance this around dance, exercise, cheerleading and studying so must be quick and very easy as my skills are lacking!!!

Please help, you will be doing me a huge favour!!!

xoxo

I want to say salads, but I think that is way obvious. But I would suggest you try this website I found with tons and tons of amazing recipes for all sorts of things. If you like the website and choose to use it, I recommend also reading some of the comments because they've found ways to switch it up to make the dish even better.

Also, I don't know how quick you want things made. I estimate if a dish can be ready from start to finish in 20 minutes, its quick! (Of course, I don't count the 5-10 minutes to prepare marinades the night before). I also don't know if you have access to an oven or stove top…

Here are a few (quick?) vegetarian dishes I found:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Three-Bean-Salad/Detail.aspx (prepare time is short, but needs to chill for 12 hours)
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Eggplant-and-Pepper-Parmesan-Sandwiches/Detail.aspx (25 minutes total time!)
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Quick-and-Easy-Stuffed-Peppers/Detail.aspx (Microwavable stuffed bell peppers! My boyfriend tried this recipe and said it came out as good as ones baked in the oven)
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/College-Students-Saucy-Chickpeas/Detail.aspx (college student's recipe!)

There's also lots of smoothie recipes and lots of fun salad recipes on there also.

I hope that helped a little. Just browse around a little more and I'm sure you will find some great recipes. Print them out, make your own little recipe book (that's what I did for my boyfriend's birthday) and have some cooking fun.

www.allrecipes.com

2 Comments so far

  1. Amy January 6th, 2009 2:47 pm

    I've been in your shoes! But since you have a microwave, there really are a endless amount of things you can eat that are vegetarian. Morning star has really good veg food. They have microwavable chicken patties/chicken nuggets/veg burgers/chicken strips/ground beef (ITS ALL VEGETARIAN!!) It's also good to mix man-which sauce with the veg ground beef… it's a sloppy joe! I have recently found frozen eggplant too, its deliciousss.

    Of course, soup always works too. And theres tons of microwavable steamed vegetables. I pretty much live on them at school.. you can get 2 big bags for $5! It's great, pop it in the microwave and you have steamed vegetable in 7 min (i hate the frozen vegtables.. blahh). It might also be a good idea to stock up on fruit in a cup or raw fruit.

    Hope this helps :)
    References :

  2. sunflowersunity January 6th, 2009 2:52 pm

    I want to say salads, but I think that is way obvious. But I would suggest you try this website I found with tons and tons of amazing recipes for all sorts of things. If you like the website and choose to use it, I recommend also reading some of the comments because they've found ways to switch it up to make the dish even better.

    Also, I don't know how quick you want things made. I estimate if a dish can be ready from start to finish in 20 minutes, its quick! (Of course, I don't count the 5-10 minutes to prepare marinades the night before). I also don't know if you have access to an oven or stove top…

    Here are a few (quick?) vegetarian dishes I found:
    http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Three-Bean-Salad/Detail.aspx (prepare time is short, but needs to chill for 12 hours)
    http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Eggplant-and-Pepper-Parmesan-Sandwiches/Detail.aspx (25 minutes total time!)
    http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Quick-and-Easy-Stuffed-Peppers/Detail.aspx (Microwavable stuffed bell peppers! My boyfriend tried this recipe and said it came out as good as ones baked in the oven)
    http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/College-Students-Saucy-Chickpeas/Detail.aspx (college student's recipe!)

    There's also lots of smoothie recipes and lots of fun salad recipes on there also.

    I hope that helped a little. Just browse around a little more and I'm sure you will find some great recipes. Print them out, make your own little recipe book (that's what I did for my boyfriend's birthday) and have some cooking fun.

    http://www.allrecipes.com
    References :
    http://www.allrecipes.com

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