Tired of campus food.
Im thinking of cooking for myself for the first time.
What do you guys normally cook at home? And any tips for a noob here?

Start off with what cuisine you're used to and what budget you have. Do u go for like full out cooked styled dishes or just something simple?

I'm chinese so my daily meal is normally rice or noodles with boiled vegetables and sliced meat (rotiserrrie chicken bbq pork or whatever). The meat is only the hard part. I often bake or pan fry meat, sometimes stirfry with vegetables

Originally Posted by Leeoku

Start off with what cuisine you're used to and what budget you have. Do u go for like full out cooked styled dishes or just something simple?

I'm chinese so my daily meal is normally rice or noodles with boiled vegetables and sliced meat (rotiserrrie chicken bbq pork or whatever). The meat is only the hard part. I often bake or pan fry meat, sometimes stirfry with vegetables

Yea I love Chinese food, but they just seem impossible to make :(

I live at home but there are times where I cook my own food. Since I'm Filipino, I can cook traditional filipino foods but when I need a quick bite to eat for lunch or dinner, I usually cook some fried eggs, hotdogs or bacon and just partner it up with rice.

some really easy things to make:

- pasta (boil pasta, store bought sauce (or if you're feeling ambitious, make your own sauce), cut-up veggies)
- frozen store bought pizza
- cup noodles
- Perogies
- store-bought frozen fries
- salads
- boiled rice
- mashed potatoes
- mac and cheese

Also, if you like fast and easy, try those SideKicks packets. They have pastas and rices with flavourings included. Pretty sure they just ask you to add boiled water, milk and butter. Super easy, pretty cheap, and they make great portions.

In first year I made egg and cheese toasted sandwiches for lunch and then start off with pasta for dinner until you slowly introduce new thing. Pasta you boil for 7-10 mins, throw in some store bought sauce and stir and you have a meal! Worked well for me

I like tuna a lot, so I get canned tuna (in water not oil), and I like to add it to mixed greens and other veggies, sometimes I add chickpeas to the salad along with my choice of dressing and condiments. Whatever you like! I usually eat this for lunch or days my parents are too busy to prepare a traditional meal.

Top things I eat when my parents aren't home:
Breakfast:
1. Cereal
2. Rice with eggs and toast
3. Waffles

Lunch:
1. Sandwich with lots of snacks
2. Leftover dinner

Dinner
1. Pasta with Alfredo sauce, possibly some sausages if I'm not feeling lazy
2. Sloppy Joe (just bought a can of sloppy joe, heated it on a stove and slapped it on some hamburger bread)
3. Cereal lol
4. Mac and Cheese if I'm desperate
5. Rice with something like cooked chicken breast (its actually so simple)
6. Hamburgers
7. Tomato or Veggie or Lipton soup

HOPE THAT HELPS

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I eat a lot of quinoa salads - just put in whatever you like!
Also eggs for lunch to get protein.
Lots (probably too much) of pasta.
Home-made pizza, super easy to make - flour+water+yeast+sug ar = dough, and then put whatever you want on top.
Sometimes I'll spend a few hours on the weekend making a large casserole or lots of soup and then just have that throughout the week.

My breakfast is a staple 2 cups of Natur-a Original Light soy milk and 1.5 cups of Berry Sensible Beginnings gluten free cereal. Before, that used to be skim milk and Special K.

For lunch, I usually have about 2 cups of white basmati rice and a cup of cooked chicken. Toss in some vegetables and a few sauces and baby, you've got a stew going.

Repeat for dinner.

I switch it up by varying the type of protein paired with the carbs: Sometimes I'll switch out the chicken for scrambled eggs and vegetables, or salmon with lemon and herb, beef, chickpeas, lentils. It seems weird to eat rice twice a day almost every day, but if you pick a lean rice, it becomes a great staple. I find that rice is much harder to "overeat" the same way you would with a heavier pasta or fried rice, allows you to stick to your diet better and works as a fantastic base. I can easily polish off a whole pot of pasta or pizza by myself, but rice is much more filling. It's also pretty cheap and doesn't need a lot of expensive sauces or "add-ons" the same way some other carbs do.

Rice cookers are fantastic investments; once the rice is cool, package it in Ziploc containers and freeze it. Defrost in the fridge or the microwave under the same settings as "chicken" and it tastes as good as when you first cooked it.