First hello from Spaghetti Lovers

We are students.  

Students tend to lack money every now and then...and so do we. Students tend to prefer spending money on parties, drinkies or “necessary” clothing and make-up items....and so do we. But we thought “hey, we might not be rich but we can still eat well (and healthy)!” and managed to develop quite fine cooking skills over the course of this academic year. And because we´re not greedy, we´ve decided to share our cheap, quick and easy (not more than 20mins needed for any of the main courses!) recipes with the world via this blog. 

We are probably going to try to post a couple of recipes every week (depends on how creative we are at the moment and on how much stuff there is in our fridge :)) until we run out of ideas and start repeating ourselves. Then we´ll probably just stop.

The aim of this blog is to show that one can eat well without having to spend a fortune on groceries or take-outs, without having a huge kitchen full of latest high-tech cooking equipment and dishes and without owning every cookbook ever published. Also, most of the recipes are going to be vegetarian, since one of us is a veggie and the other one has sort of assimilated :)

 

We usually shop in ASDA and our normal budget for 2 weeks is £25 per person, this includes breakfasts and snacks. An average cost of one meal is £2 for two people (yes, we do buy the ASDA brand stuff..But to be honest, there´s nothing wrong with it and most of it is fairly comparable to the more expensive items of the same sort). We buy similar stuff every time (pasta of all kinds, mostly spaghetti..surprisingly :), rice, couscous, frozen vegetables – who lives in student halls knows, that it is rather difficult to acquire enough space in a shared fridge to store fresh vegetables..and it´s also not exactly easy to estimate how much one needs, which often leads to a lot of vegetables going bad and therefore being wasted – this can be easily prevented by using frozen vegetables, pasta sauces (4 cheese being our all time favourite), cheddar...) and we sometimes spice things up with mozzarella, veggie burgers, fresh herbs and vegetables, olives etc.

Anyway, hope some of you that come across this blog are actually going to like it. We´ll try our best to keep it varied and interesting.

This should do for now. Thanks for reading!

CM