college food plan

[MRT144]

well, im getting 200 dollars a month for food when i get to college. now i want to skim 100-60 dollars a month off the top for music equipment.

The way i figure it, thatll leave me with 25 dollars a week for food. Now ive done a little thinking on what 25 dollars will buy me. i can go without 2 days a week without food and that will get me 5 dollars a day.

i was thinking maybe if i just invest in a hearty cereal, that may get me by for the entire week. if i eat 2 bowls a day i might just be able to do it.

what would you do if on a 25 dollar a week budget for food?

[Sava]

get pizza one night then starve

[Apocalypse]

Eat other people's food.

[Sava]

sell your blood, sperm, and any other bodily fluids.

[Dinner]

Buy a rice cooker and a 20 pound bag of rice. Eat for a month.

Also I can remember many a night where I was nurished on Raman and/or cup of noodles. They're dirt cheap, never go bad, easy to make, and don't tast to bad if you don't think about it.

[MRT144]

well taste isnt really a question in my mind. i just want something that is has some nurtitional value to it, so i dont wind up with scurvy or something like that.

[Kramerman]

For my meal plan I can go to the cafeteria and get ALL I CAN EAT for 2.95 for breakfast (which i dont eat), $3.00 for lunch and for dinner. Granted the food isnt great, but for all the food i can eat in a day for $6.00, I eat it with a smile

[Dinner]

Wasn't there a college kid who got scurvy from eating nothing but cup of noodles for two years?

Seriously, I remember a thread about that.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Kramerman
For my meal plan I can go to the cafeteria and get ALL I CAN EAT for 2.95 for breakfast (which i dont eat), $3.00 for lunch and for dinner. Granted the food isnt great, but for all the food i can eat in a day for $6.00, I eat it with a smile

Usually the meal plans can be tacked on to your student loans as well so there are no up front costs.

[Dinner]

The rice cooker thing actually is a good suggestion. I had rice just about every day because it was a healthy stable which was cheap and making it consisted of putting it into the cooker and hitting the on switch.

[Cruddy]

Re: college food plan

Originally posted by MRT144
well, im getting 200 dollars a month for food when i get to college. now i want to skim 100-60 dollars a month off the top for music equipment.

The way i figure it, thatll leave me with 25 dollars a week for food. Now ive done a little thinking on what 25 dollars will buy me. i can go without 2 days a week without food and that will get me 5 dollars a day.

i was thinking maybe if i just invest in a hearty cereal, that may get me by for the entire week. if i eat 2 bowls a day i might just be able to do it.

what would you do if on a 25 dollar a week budget for food?

NO PROBLEMO. But for pity's sake don't live on standard breakfast cereals alone.

They may have iron, the maybe have vitamins - but they don't have fibre.

You want to earn that music system with a case of piles?

Anyway, alternate the cereal with fresh fruit. If you can't get fresh fruit get cheap OJ at least for vitamin C.

If you can afford a tin of fish (NOT tuna - I mean oily like maceral) every 2nd or 3rd day, that will do wonders for your blood sugar and keep the carbs off your gut.

YOU COULD GO THE WHOLE HOG and GO VEGAN - but I doubt you are ready for this.

So yeah, starvation diet for maybe 2 months is feasible to get your sound system.

$25? Hah, a bounty of money per week. I could live on that in the UK - food is maybe twice as expensive here as the US.

Well, maybe "live" is the wrong word - try "survive".

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Wasn't there a college kid who got scurvy from eating nothing but cup of noodles for two years?

Seriously, I remember a thread about that.

York/NE England had that. Guy wanted a motorbike, he gets the first case of scurvy for over 100 years. That's teach him to live on oatmeal alone.

[Shi Huangdi]

Well, for one you'd want to never eat out, then get really cheap stuff like maybe a Ramen Noodles and Easy Mac for every meal.

I will tell you now MRT, what you are thinking of is a BAD IDEA. For one the body is meant to go without food and you will regret it, and you won't be able to focus as much on whatever you are doing. But the bigger problem is a good part of a college student's(or any other age person for the matter) social life involves eating food with each other. If you never have any money to eat out, you are going to be throwing one big wrench in your social life.

But then, if you really want to skim money of the top of your food plan, don't spend it on music equipment, spend it on beer. Self-explanatory there..

[MRT144]

cruddy what if i got a high fiber cereal?

i wish i went to a college with a cafeteria but this is a little art school where you have your own apartment and nothing is the way it seems. we have our own little kitchen and everything. I will have a roommate too so i might be able to mooch off his stash for a while too.

[MRT144]

shi, i dont want a social life. i want to do well in school, make music, and do well in school.