Top 5 cooking tips For students
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Meal planning. Plan what you want to eat for the week before you go shopping and stick to it. This way you can eat as healthy as you want and will avoid snacking. Try to stay creative though, as boredom will make you go back to an unhealthy diet.
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Buy fruits and vegetables from the market in bulk. If you buy a lot, you don’t want to waste it, so you’ll have to eat it.
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Buy fresh ingredients, that way you cannot leave the healthy meals in the freezer and go back to your usual frozen pizza. Bear in mind that a healthy lifestyle takes time and motivation.
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Seasoning. Learn how to use salt and pepper properly, season in stages and buy different spices as it can make simple dishes a lot more tasteful. It will also make you want to mix and create new flavours, therefore learning how to cook!
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Keep it simple. We know that as a student, you don’t exactly have time or energy to spend making fancy dishes, but there is a huge step between Asda Smartprice Instant Noodles and a Scallop Sashimi with Meyer Lemon Confit.
Jonny’s favourite healthy recipe Salad with a spicy kick
All you need is a bag of kale, garlic, chilli flakes (or normal chilli), onion, peppers, white wine vinegar, olive oil and five spice powder. Chop the onion, peppers and garlic small and add to a hot pan. Once frying, add the chilli flakes and one tsp of five spice powder (stand back or it will take your breath away). Fry for 30 seconds. Add your kale. Remove the leaves from the stalks. Fry in the incredibly hot pan and add a touch of salt and pepper. Within five minutes, you will have a very healthy meal for well under £5! NERVE | 28