I always searched around for budget friendly meals especially in my Pinterest and on the web. As a lover of food and by the necessity of food to we, students. I have compiled 7 food ingredients plus the types of meals that can be created from them. So sit back, take notes and re-create these dishes.


1. POTATOES

The first on the list is Potatoes, this is the one of the most versatile tuber crop, and also one of the cheapest options you can find in the market, the downside about potatoes is that it does not really store for a long period. But this tuber crop, rich in Vitamin C especially the sweet potatoes is packed with nutrients, fibres and is equally filling, and it can be fried in oil, made into pottage, boiled like yam to eat with egg, pepper sauce or anything suitable, mashed and eaten like that. As students this is our very friendly option. So next time you are headed to the market don't by pass the potatoes.

2. GARRI

This should be our first though but then, we cannot overemphasise the importance of Garri, or what most students call garrium sulphate �. Garri is simply fried cassava flakes, the life saver, the stomach helper, it goes a long way in aiding students. Whether you are eating it raw, drinking it, making it into the local "Eba" or you are adding it to cooked beans as a topping, Garri has your back with little money and accompaniments as simple as water, sugar, groundnut etc. You are assured of a full belly. It also stores well, though you should watch out of rats and rodents who are interested in it. Also you can make the rich man's garri too, build your garri up with coconut, condensed milk, groundnut, sugar and even chocolate powder then add ice cubes for a chilled effect.

3. BEANS

This item also is a good example of food you cannot do without, beans is a legume that serves various purposes, but it isn't without its stress as touching kerosene, so use gas for faster cooking , but then the nutritional value is essential, as the major plant protein source for Nigerian students, it deserves a place here. Our combos for beans makes it something to look forward too, rice and beans, beans and plantain, beans and potatoes pottage, beans topped with garri, beans and bread and so on. Or if you like the more traditional route, you should blend it to make fried beancakes(akara) or steamed beans pudding (moi-moi) and enjoy with garri, pap, bread or custard.

4. NOODLES (RAMEN)

A round of applause for the number one fast food for students, noodles that comes in different brands like Indomie, Golden Penny, Minimie etc. It has rescued many students who have early morning classes and 7 am exams, your noodles can be made in various ways and it comes in different flavours. And more flavours are still made, so explore too. You can combine with rice, plantain, egg, fish, meat, crayfish. Have you heard of concoction, jollof, fried noodles ? There are just so many ways that noodles can be cooked and eaten.

5. RICE

This is a Nigerian staple diet, although its price is on the increase, we are placing it here because of the combinations and variety you can get out of it, the ease of it being cooked and it consuming less fuel. Rice is delicious, fast and goes well with various ingredients. You can make palm-oil rice at less than #1,000, student jollof rice, fried rice with 3 ingredients, white rice and beans and so on. You can ever combine rice and pasta of your choice. I'm practically drooling � over a plate of rice and ewa goyin sauce with beans �.

6. PASTA

Pasta is the general name for your Spaghetti, macaroni, twists et al. They also come in different brands and its just 10 minutes to get a perfect al dente texture, all the way from Italy, this food has adapted to our cooking techniques. It also pairs well with other types of food. You can enjoy alone white, with tomato sauce, stir fry with veggies and any protein of your choice.

7. SPICES AND SEASONING

This is invariably a game changer (salt, pepper, curry powder, thyme, ginger powder, turmeric etc ) they add tons of flavours, store well for months and make your meals delicious and appetising. They may seem cheap and little but just by adding a bit of this in your cooking along with onions. You are in for a lovely experience. Your curry gives that fried rice colour naturally, your thyme gives a buzz and if you like heat (go for pepper )

8. VEGETABLES

This plays a key role in your health,( okra, African Spinach, Pumpkin leaves, Water leaf etc ) they can be used to make delicious soups that are healthy supplements along with swallows, rich in vitamins and minerals, a hundred naira worth of okra or bitter leaf can go a long way in ensuring you have a balanced diet, add crayfish and locust beans and you have a students' soup.

Source:
https://www.campusverve.com.ng/2021/12/8-types-of-food-for-broke-students.html

My love for beans and garri is undiluted

Perfect combo wey you go use hold body until another meal drop

You see beans, soaking of garri and indomie...na life saver for many students.

Kai, me and my roomie cook colour rice tire...

All these food are not cheap anymore

Not one on the list you can get with 200 and be satisfied


All thanks to that demented vulture grilling guy’s darling daddy

Na only garri be for broke ass niggas oooo. These past few days I just dey chop garri up and down.

Why this topic Mr OP, to oppress or to do what?

If you should know the number of lives Garri have saved ehn...Garri and Groundnut deserve award from students








Hungerbad

Ok u forget add tom brown

Ok

You are wrong, are you telling me broken student will buy spaghetti daily, you know how much they sell it now. You know how much they sell beans abi. Broke student will only cook colored rice, cook rice and beans together that are colored. Drink garri. Prepare alcoholic eba

fufu

This research is not valid enough, cos if you can afford the aforementioned food items you are rich, cos they are not cheap.

There is nothing cheap about the aforementioned foods

Saskay44:
Ok u forget add tom brown

What is that?

U dey craze? Guy are u sure u are in this naija? Which of this food is cheap in the market today? No poor man food for as of today. Na only water cheap to dey drink if u can survive on it only. Open ur eyes and feel the reality.

I chop bread and beans ehn! sotey beans and beans almost comot for my head

yo yo yo
those food mentioned above
niqqaars used em to bleeep baby girls for free

Apart from garri, those other food are normal food for student na.abi what do u expect student to be eating apart from beans, rice, noodles

Back in those days ...now if u get this for house as food stuffs you're living good, no thanks to bubu

For someone that attended UNN

It is okpa and coke


NB : I was not a student of UNN

Skyfornia:
You see beans, soaking of garri and indomie...na life saver for many students.

Mine was garri and spag.

That combo dey harden belle in d Uni days.

8am to 5pm straight up.

Sweet foods

If not for the fact that prices of these items have skyrocketed, this would have been an awesome list.

Infact, you're supposed to make garri the no one on this list if you actually want to meet the expectation of the title of the post.

You just gave me an awesome idea for an online business with this post, thank you.

We have all eaten these

So broke student nowadays can buy Potatoe, Indomie, rice, pasta etc?

Well, that year when we were broke..

We go to the unbroke guys, collect garri from them and use:

1. Salt
2. Groundnut
3. Red Oil/ Groundnut oil (borrowed o)
4. Sugar
5. Cheap crayfish of #20

Etcetera..

That's if "room to room with spoon in pocket" technique no work o

But as a sharp broke guy, before you work few rooms your belle don full pass the so called unbroke guys..

The only difference be say you need to constantly connect to the Holy Spirit for direction to be in the rooms AT THE APPOINTMENT TIME

If you don't gerrit....