How to Keep Your Fridge Full

If you are a university student and you have a perfectly balanced, healthy, complex, and gourmet diet, then you are probably lying. If you're not lying, then kudos to you for being super-human! It is next to impossible to find enough time to plan well-rounded meals, grocery shop, and cook every day. I never realized how much I appreciated mama's cooking, and the ready-made dinners at BMH dining hall last year. Cooking for yourself is no easy task for a busy student.

My favourite way to make sure I'm well fed is to plan dinner dates with friends. We like to come up with an idea for dinner beforehand, split up the groceries, and then cook together. It's a nice way to unwind after a long day, and it certainly ensure that you will be fed (at least for the night).

OR, if you have lazy&hungry guy friends and you love to cook (like me), then you can make your friends pick up all the ingredients and then make them something! I made my boys some pumpkin pie a few days ago... how lucky are they?!

If you're short on time, like most of us are, then the best thing to do is set aside some time about once or twice a week to do all your groceries and then make a giant batch of something that you can go back to and eat all week. It's so nice to make a giant pot of some delicious meal that you can feed off of for a while, and you also don't have to worry about making time to cook. For those that don't enjoy cooking, aim for easy and tasty recipes, like stir-fry, chili, curry, pasta, or anything else that doesn't require much effort or culinary talent. Hopefully grocery shopping and cooking will eventually be fun instead of feeling like a chore!