You've left your parents' house for the first time, your student loan has just been spent on rent and beer and you need some ideas for cheap sustenance. Well don't ask a musician for help on how to fill your belly...
Faris Rotter,
The Horrors
"I think investing in a sandwich toaster is one of the best things you can do as a student. Tomatoes - plain tomatoes - no sauces, no cheese, toasted, make for an amazing staple. Bananas are good too - a nice complex carbohydrate. You'd be surprised at how many unusual combinations work well in a toasted sandwich environment. Marmite and cheese - that's always rescued me."
David Thorpe,
Pete And The Pirates
"I tended to eat a very grey diet as a student - pasta, noodles, plain bread, occasionally baked beans if I was feeling exotic. To be honest, my head was always elsewhere, I was more about consumption of other substances than food. A good tip, though, is to go to an old-fashioned high street butchers and get loads of meat - when life was good we'd go in and get massive slabs of bacon, enough for a couple of weeks, and cook all that up for sandwiches - if you buy in bulk it's dead cheap."
Samantha Valentine,
Ipso Facto
"Go round and liberate things from other people's cupboards. I was in halls of residence for a while, sharing a kitchen with 25 other girls, and if you didn't have a lock on your cupboard door, your stuff would go missing. Cheese is your god in these situations. Anything can be spiced-up with a splodge of cheese. Ketchup is good too. Salad cream, everything.""
