Students are often forced to save money and time, which also affects their nutrition. Student cuisine is quite simple and is based on fast food and inexpensive convenience foods. However, a student's diet can vary significantly depending on where he lives and financial resources.
Students living with parents
For reasons of economy or convenience, a significant part of the students in the first years or all the time of their studies stays with their parents. This allows them to save time on organizing their own life, including cooking. In the case of living at home, part of the time the student eats according to the tastes and standards of his family. In most cases, he encounters food popular specifically with students only at lunchtime.
A student's lunch is subject to the availability of time and the assortment of the student canteen. Most often, for a quick snack within the walls of the institute, you can buy sandwiches, pies and various snacks - chips, nuts, crackers. If the student has more free time, he can eat in the cafeteria. The menu in university canteens is usually quite standard and inexpensive - 2-3 types of simple soups, cutlets, sausages, fish with garnish and pastries.
A student can get a more varied meal than in the canteen in a cafe or restaurant. However, lunch there will cost much more, besides, the university is often too far from private catering points.
Independent student menu
The nutrition of a student living separately from his parents becomes quite specific. Rare students make soups for themselves at home or prepare complex dishes - such a menu for one person is rather irrational, moreover, students living in a hostel do not always have a separate kitchen. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account the issue of saving money, which affects a significant part of the students, as a result, on the table there are instant products - noodles and instant potatoes, as well as inexpensive semi-finished products - dumplings and sausages. Some of the students make their diet more varied due to the products passed on by their parents, for example, canned vegetables and other homemade preparations.
Some students living in a hostel equip a kitchen right in their room, and their menu is determined by what they have installed - a stove or a microwave oven.
It is quite harmonious to organize meals for those students who live together and cooperate in the purchase of food and cooking. In this way, they can save money and time. But even in such a situation, preference turns out to be simple dishes, for example, potatoes, which are fried, boiled, less often served as mashed potatoes.
