To explore all popular food joints around the campus area is on the college experience checklist of every student. With no one to keep tabs on when or what they are eating, a major part of their diet consists of fast food from the roadside stalls.
The thought of having healthy food resides in the farthest corner of their minds. They are too eager and enthusiastic to check out food joints around the campus that nothing but outside food satisfies their craving taste buds.
But some students also cite shoestring budgets and the shortage of time as the reasons for skipping on healthy meals and grabbing the easily available junk food items. Hence, here are some easy food hacks for college students that are both healthy and budget friendly.
Hostel Mess Specialties
Not all mess food is bad or tasteless as per the popular belief among students. Like any other chef your mess chefs to have a specialty. To figure out what that is, is your responsibility. Eating out every day burns a big hole in your pocket.
But you can easily skip eating out on the days when something good is made in the mess. Ask around and find out what’s the mess food specialty. At the month’s end, when you are running low on budget then, the mess food like ‘daal-roti’ and ‘rajama-chwal’ are great day savers.