I'll tell you straight out, I personally feel as if I'm a terrible cook, but my classmates think otherwise. I'm a senior in high school and for the past couple of years, my junior year, and senior year, I've been making my own lunches. Although I made them less complicated, they get the job done.
When you're making food, it honestly doesn't matter if you're an "amazing" chef or a "garbage" one. The main thing is that you have to enjoy your food and live off of it. (If you have guests, that's a different story).
Over the past few months, the boat load of work, and so little time, I ended going to sleep late at night because I had to make my lunch. Why did it take so long you might ask, well, it's because the food was always made fresh and always done by hand.
When you're making food for yourself as a college student, you have to make things that are quick and easy, but they also have to give you all the nutrition that you need to survive.
There are five very important food groups that deliver vital nutrients to your body, these are dairy, fruit, grains, proteins, and vegetables. If you lack in them, you won't be able to maximize your potential.
In regards to fruits and vegetables, they don't require any prep unless you really want to take the time to cook them, but you can just buy raw fruits and vegetables and eat them as they are. Not only is this much healthier for you, it is quick and easy, you can snack on them while you are doing some work. They also give you a boost of energy! Also, there are so many of them, so you don't always have to eat apples for fruits and carrots for vegetables, you can and should mix it around because fruits and vegetables have their own special attribute.
Next we have have the grains group. This group has pasta, pasta, rice, bread, cakes, etc. Now with this group, you can do the following, since you have to boil the rice and pasta (and other grains sometimes), it is best to do this on one day, like a Sunday. You make a lot of it (but not too much or it will go bad) and you store it, and each day, you take some and you just have to heat it up. Something that I love to do is make my own bread, it takes a lot more time than buying loaves at the store, but you can make them how you want. I just had balls of dough and froze the entire batch, and overtime, I baked it in the oven and had bread.
Next with the dairy. Be careful with this group, if you have expired milk products, you might have some issues. But aside from worrying about that, you should always have some easy access dairy product on your hand. Some of these might be cheese, yogurt, and milk. You could always, just pop open a yogurt container and eat it. With cheese, you can easily cut it and put it on pasta, bread or just eat it plain.
Lastly, are the proteins. Always have eggs, nuts, and fish around. If you want to spend some more money, buy ground beef, make burgers and freeze them and just pop them on the stove or grill to cook them. With eggs, you don't need to get fancy, you can eat them hard-boiled, scrambled, but if you want to take more time, then you can get fancy. Always have some nuts in your home, just snack on them, they don't need preparation. For fish, I usually buy Wal-Mart bags of frozen fish. I just take it out of the bag, throw it on the stove, oven, or grill and just eat it (I add spices of course).
On a side note, try to stay away from caffeine and sugary snacks. Personally, they throw me off if I have them too often, try to get your energy and sugars naturally from plenty of rest and fruits, it's all natural sugar, nothing refined.
In short, make food in advance and freeze it so you don't have to worry about what you will eat. Just reach in the fridge and get something you made from before.
Another side note, try to avoid those cereals that are flooded with sugar and soda. Imo, it wacks you up in the long run.
Hope this answered your question on food (I got carried away). Also, try to do some research on foods and see what each does for you. Like specific nuts, fish, fruits, vegetables, etc. Good luck!
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I can cook almost anything and I cook for myself its quite enjoyable
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