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11 cookery commandments all students live by
1. If something is cheap, buy a lot of it
Cans of tuna for 50c? I’LL TAKE THE LOT.
2. Your food press is sacred…
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3. …But your parents’ food presses are fair game
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A tin of beans here, a pack of queen cakes there… They’ll hardly miss them.
4. Carbs + carbs + carbs = A Good Dinner
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You may not be getting your five-a-day, but at least you’re not hungry, right?
5. Food stealing is a serious crime
You have a half a block of cheese, tomato sauce, and some pasta to do you until Friday. You come home, and the cheese is gone.
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This. Means. War.
6. Canteen meals for the first week of the month means Koka Noodles for the rest of it
This is you from March 1-7:
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“Give me ALL the chicken goujons, kind sir.”
This is you from March 8-31:
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“Chicken or beef flavour tonight?”
7. Drowning anything in sauce automatically makes it edible
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Which is why you always have sweet chilli/ketchup/brown sauce to hand.
8. Anything can be a plate
Just use your imagination:
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9. Defrosting meat in the microwave is FINE
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It’s FINE. Ignore the screams of the haters.
10. Picking mould off bread is FINE
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Just throw it in the toaster, be grand.
11. Cereal isn’t for breakfast, it’s for life
Every student’s dream:
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Perfect for dinner, lunch, midnight snack, after a night out – with milk or dry. The ideal food.
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