Cheap and easy Recipes

By Anastasia Burton

Fashion and Lifestyle Editor

Food is love; food is life. Being a student during a pandemic is costly and hungry. From watching yummy Tiktok cooking challenges to gawking at JustEat, only two clicks away. We know damn well that takeaway is a hit or miss and a large blow to your wallet if done often so why not check out a few healthy and easy recipes you can follow that won’t break the bank?

Sounds too good to be true right? I mean if you can boil an egg, you’ll be fine. Starting off strong with homemade tacos, delicious and amazing and cheap!

 

Homemade Tacos

Ingredients:

450-500g of mince

250g of shredded cheese

2 red onions

1 red pepper

1 pack of Doritos (Cheesy or hot)

Sauce (optional)

Spices(optional)

Taco shells/ wraps

 

Steps:

1. Heat the pan and wait till it’s hot before emptying the mince inside.
2. You can use any oil you like to fry the mince in
3. Brown the mince in the pan (you can add sauce during this step if you like)
4. Chop the vegetables and add to the mince.
5. Add cheese as you like.
6. Once the cheese is nice and stringy and the mince is a nice colour you can start plating.
7. Crush up Doritos and add either inside the mince or add full chips inside the taco either underneath or on top of the mince.
8. Voila! Enjoy

Total cost of meal: 15.80            Servings: 8

 

For Dessert, Cheesecake in a cup

Ingredients:

4 digestive biscuits/ rich tea biscuits

100g cream cheese

100ml double cream

Icing sugar

Vanilla extract

Strawberries (Or other fruits)

 

Steps:

1. Crush up the biscuits into crumbs.
2. Whisk the sugar with cream cheese and a drop or two of vanilla extract.
3. Once the mixture is nice and fluffy empty the contents into glasses.
4. Add cut up strawberries on top of the mixture.
5. Create two layers of the same pattern, mixture, fruit, mixture fruit.
6. Refrigerate for a couple of hours.
7. Enjoy!

Total cost: 6-euro              Servings: 4              .

I hope you try these out and have a lovely meal that is not only cheap, but also delicious. Don’t forget to take lots of pictures and post online because everyone knows you haven’t really had a meal until you’ve taken a picture of it!