Favorite cheap college meals
 

Lets hear them guys, Baked potatoes are the ticket for me. What do you guys make on a low budget?

pizza is always a winner in my book

Definitely can't beat 10 for $10 totinos pizzas! haha

I need some more ideas, I'm always hungry but i eat the same crap.

hot pockets and burritos from walmart lol i lived on the road for a few months lol

I love subway too and its healthy

We don't have a walmart here, Its about 30 miles from here but Burritos at the store are pretty cheap and a quick easy meal.

haha yes they are, esp they hot and spicy ones, if your allowed ta have a grill, hot dogs hamburgers and chicken good and cheap ta have on hand lol

I have a baby camping grill.

I like going to the store and getting some discount meat and grilling on Fridays with some friends and a couple brews.

easy mac
instant hamburger helper
rice
pizza
sausage (if u have a grill)
hot dogs
burgers
chili meat can be good

one thing that i do every now and then is make a huge thing of stew (probly enough to feed 20 or so) and it will last me a month

also you dont think about it but bigger things like a decent sized brisket or ham (yes its expensive) can last u 10 meals if u make sandwiches

I like the stew idea...Might look into a stew recipe and make me a big batch!

whatever u can steal from your one night stands apt b4 you leave.... :w2:

Sloppy Joes
Mac & cheese
Spaghetti
Pigs in Blankets, canned biscuit dough wrapped around hot dog's cut in 1/2 & baked.
Fish, catch it and fry it.

LOL... A chica is making me brownies tomorrow...

Pizza's made on english muffins are quick and easy, not to mention pretty good :c:

venison jerky. we used to go out n whack a deer every week n have the back straps for supper n the rest was jerky. found out u can live off jerky n canadian molson, but u dont wanna be in the same house with us...:scare2:

The fish is definitely a great idea. I go fishin around here all the time, Mostly flyfishing catch and release but I should start going to the ponds and catching a couple fish to fry up.

poor man tacos!

Corn Chips
chill
Cheese

then the optional stuff

onion
lettuce
cabbage
tomato
ect

Favorite cheap college meals
 

I would buy about 5lbs ground meat beans and tomato sauce which made a cheap chili and i usually made bout 15-20 quarts at a time. then you can have chili, frito pie, I've even done spaghetti with it. Eating it for one or two meals a day I could make about 3 weeks off it

pork loins are great buys!!!! like a 15 pounder... slice it grill it throw it in the fridge... smother it in ranch with some fried taters!!!! i love this meal!!!! i can eat for seven days on this for right around 40 bucks... charcoal and all...
:rocking::rocking::rocking::rocking:

Top Ramen mixed with Wolf Chilly, smoked polish sausage and cheese. I always had salad fixings, spaghetti sauce, Hamburger, noodles, to make about anything. A big ole log of baloney to bar-beque when I am out of cash!

That's a great idea... I guess I'll be making some chili here soon! :c:

Costco Pork Loins!!!
Homemade Hamburgers with onion soup mix mixed in
Steak and Potatoes is always a good one
Pizza
Meatloaf
Beer Sausage

Baked potatoes, bologna sandwich, macaroni, Ramen noodle soup (pork), Great Value brand stuff, canned vegetables, chicken noodle soup, etc.

Favorite cheap college meals
 

Yeah we also kill feral hogs on a regular basis plus a couple calves or deer a year so we always had plenty of sausage to eat also.

mac & cheese
those $1 burgers at walmart they taste better & are bigger then a big mac
fridge pac of RC cola
cheese sandwhich
or go fishing & cook whatever ya catch,some junk fish like mullet or menhaden if you fille them with there scale on then grill them with the scales facing down towards your coals,the scale form sorta like a bowl & you can basically scoop out the fish meat with potato chunks

There are some great ideas on here. :rocking:

I have been making a bunch of pot roasts and pork roasts lately in the trailer... pick up a mid sized crock, throw in the roast, some baby carrots, some onions, some potatos and what ever pepper and salt you like. Turn it on low and come back at dinner time.

made my first pork roast and I am sold!

Those are the best kinds of roasts!! Gawd im hungry now

I thought this said CHEAP college meals, jeez some of you guys ate better in college than I eat now.

Ramen noodles of course,
pizza rolls
giant bag of cheddar chex mix (3lbs) from BJ's wholesale.

Basically whatever we could afford after buying beer for the week. It wasn't much sometimes.

$10-$12 bucks to throw a roast together and you have good food for a week...

I don't have a crock pot... Might have to go look at the goodwill and see if i can find one for cheap cuz that roast idea sounds delicious!

Oh and about a cup of water too in the crock... Almost forgot that part...LOL

The chili is a great idea. I make that all winter long. If you're close to a university with an ag school, like Purdue, they usually have a butcher block where the students practice and you can get everything for about half price. Other than that 2 cans of tuna $1.25 and a box of mac and cheese $0.75 is about 2 meals. Eggs I eat eggs breakfast, lunch, and supper. Scrambled add in some cheap ham cheese and salsa, fried, w/toast as a sandwich, hard boiled, etc etc. Remember Hot Sauce makes everything better.:rocking:

i dont like waiting on my crock pot to cook the food.it just making hungrier

I wish we had that... i don't think we do though. My gramp's did teach me about the discount meat section at the grocery store and when to be there after they stock it... lol

Another good cheap college food is find a farmers daughter whose parents like you so they invite you over for dinner all the time and then take the leftovers home

ramon noodles and spam with hot sauce and some cheese every once in awhile to mix it up, i would also do spam and rice i had got me a little 20 dollar rice cooker even hot dog wienies with rice and ramon all kinds of stuff you can mix with rice and rice is cheap sad part is i still eat this while i am deployed all the time hell even when the wife is mad i stiil eat this

Thats how I made it threw college

dont forget the one that we all hate...SPAM...u can cook it any way you can think of

Sorry guys, but there is nothing cheap about women... I've found being single is much easier on the wallet than being in a relationship...