Considering I am planning on signing my lease for my apartment next year by the end of this week, I have been thinking a lot about what I am going to be doing for meals next year. While I still plan on getting a low-level meal plan for the dining hall, I will definitely have to rely on cooking for a lot of my meals. With that being said, I do not have a strong background with cooking, but lately I have been doing research on the best places to find healthy, simple, and affordable recipes.
Considering I am a visual learner and I have always found video tutorials helpful for anything I do, the first place I decided to look for ideas is youtube. One account that I quickly came across is called tasty Tasty and they post cooking videos multiple times a day every single day. Not every video on this account posts the most healthy recipes; for example one of the most recent videos they have up is a tutorial on hot chocolate truffles. However because they post so frequently it is very easy to sift through all of the options and find ones on things like black bean soup or lemon chicken.
Also, as I said before I do not have very much experience with cooking, and sometimes online recipes can be daunting or confusing. Something that anybody can make, no matter what their background with food is, are smoothies. This is a quick breakfast snack I made for myself all of the time when I was in high school, and because I do not have a blender in my dorm is something I really miss. I found a website that has fifty different smoothie options , so whenever I do not know what to make I will always be able to whip one of these up quickly. Smoothies are great because they are so simple and can be made up in so many different varieties.
Finally, something that will be really helpful to download is a recipe organizer . While there are so many different resources to find meal recipes it can be difficult to keep track of them all of the time. If I make something I really enjoyed eating, next time I try to make it I don’t want to have to look through a dozen different websites to find the recipe again. Overall, I am very excited to live off campus next year and expand my knowledge on cooking.
I’d love to read about some your recipes you come up with by next semester. 🙂 There are lots of online resources and books with affordable and yummy food and I’m sure you’ll make mistakes and learn lots about cooking during the spring. I love watching Bon Appétit, Binging with Babish, and Tasty – they each have a lot of really neat recipes I’ve looking to test out. Hope you find lots of success with your cooking endeavors, don’t burn anything!