24 Hours of Healthy Student Cooking (Cheap and Realistic)
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2024
- I wanna take you through an entire day of cooking and eating from the perspective of a broke college student who is trying to stay healthy. I'm documenting all my meals trying to focus on maximizing nutritional value while still keeping the dishes cheap, easy and fun. I made sure all recipes take less than 30 minutes to complete, they're nutritionally balanced, and they're approachable as a college student.
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I'm not a college student anymore, but as a mother of a toddler I am here for the "30 min or less" part 🤣
Hahaha nicee
One of the biggest game changes in food prep wrt saving time is realising not only is peeling your vegetables/fruits for cooking not required, it extremely healthy option as there are many valuable nutrients lost when peeling that are especially great for developing young bodies of children for building their immune system. Not to mention the additional texture and flavour add punch to the meals too.
Also, herbs, spices etc, are high value in anti-oxidents and many more, so when making baby/toddler food, don't leave them out, black pepper, paprika, herbs etc etc.
@@matthewvanrensburg3824 oh i needed this, always tell my fiance its not nessesary and now i got a reason to
@@blueof-er4rx My 5yrold has not once needed a visit to the GP as a reference for health lvls. My other 3 kids, with oldest 19, I can count on 1 hand how many times each been to see a doc for being sick since they were born.
@@matthewvanrensburg3824 Ive always thought spices and herbsin baby food wanst a good thing.. Ive always thought that would be too overwhelming for a baby/toddler but i guess not.
1:13 breakfast porridge
3:15 chicken wrap
5:43 healthy snack
7:03 chilli tofu noodles
merci
someone tell him there are chapters
unless it was commented before the update
Thank you!❤
tu es francais?@@buranko9623
"I"m adding cinnamon to add the taste of cinnamon"
"Cook this chicken until it is cooked"
this is EXACTLY how a college student cooks
Yeah the floor is made out of floor
People dies when they die
Mix until it is mixed
the moment I heard the cinnamon part, I came to check the comments lol.
Look ramps we can use these as ramps
As a student, you got over the student budget after breakfast
Well damn I'm scared to go to collage
@@relinaranohe must be homeless if he cant afford a $1.25 breakfast
@@maalikserebryakov so it's not bad as only having under 2$ as food money?
@@relinarano i think it just depends on your country and economy. My daily student budget in Europe i can feed my whole family healthily and happily in my country.
@@relinaranoif you’re able to live from home for free then not at all. Or even on campus with loans won’t have to affect your day to day. But if you’re alone renting a place on your own it may be
I tried the first two recipes today, it didn't come out perfect cause i can't cook to save my life but i was insanely surprised by how easy and delicious it is! Thank you very much!!
Cooking like any other skill is a matter of practice. Try making those recipes for like a week straight and you'll be making them with no fuss in no time.
You should try overnight oats, it's way easier
Also, cooking is one of those things that you'll get better at the more you do it
The first time I made something, i completely ruined it. I know it might make you feel worse because it's good and you don't want to mess up something you really need for sustenance, but I promise you'll get better at it the more you do it. A great place to start is eggs, if you do eat it. Make a sunny side up or scrambled eggs, fancy it up a little with something flavorful like sriracha and even some toppings like oregano, eat it with something you can get from the store like tortillas. Eggs always boost your confidence when you're starting out, so do try them
That's amazing, and with more practice you'll be looking back and seeing just how much more u can incorporate and do more in less time the basics r hard but just like any basic skill you'll hav it down in no time, if you've never done it yourself ur not "bad" perse your trying and that's what matters, it would be like asking an orangutan too solve a Rubix cube sure he could prob do it with time but u don't blame him cuz he's never tried it before‼️‼️
Found this from Instagram, everyone was a butt, but this is amazing! Truly low effort (not no effort which no one seems to know the difference) healthy, and low cost. More please!
Such a thoughtful comment. Thanks so much❤️
I just checked, people were so butthurt because he said "broke" lmao I'm not on IG but this is a good reminder to stay away from that cesspool
Bro it is 6$ a day i can't afford that when my father earns 900$ a month
@@noobiehd7523 then don't eat
@@noobiehd7523 $6.00 a day is still very cheap for nutritious food though, so saying "broke" is still valid. Being low income is not a one size fits all by any means.
calories for nerds like myself:
oats:abt 594 cals
1 med apple:85 cals
1 cup yogurt:136 cals
1 tbs cinnamon:6 cals
40 grams of oats:150 cals
10 pieces walnuts:132 cals
tbs honey:64 cals
Wrap:abt 435 cals
all spices:60 cals
1/2 cup yogurt:68 cals
1 tbs honey: 64 cals
1 pan fried chicken thigh:177 cals
1 med tomato:22 cals
1/4 iceberg lettuce:10 cals
1 tortilla:94 cals
(was shocked by this but cilantro is 0 cals so ya.)
snack thing:abt 197 cals
1 med cucumber:40 cals
1 med tomato:22 cals
1 med pepper:23 cals
1/4 canned beans:27 cals
1 tbs capers:2.5 cals
1 cracker 60
2 tbs yogurt:20
noodles:abt 604
1 pack instant noodles:386 cals
1/2 tofu: 33 cals
tbs olive oil:119 cals
1 green onion:8 cals
1 med pepper:23 cals
1 tbs ginger root:1 cals
1 garlic clove:4 cals
1tbs dark soy sauce:20 cals
1 tbs oyster sauce:9 cals
(When I made this I made it with rice noodles(192 cals a cup) bc the instant noodles are very bad tbh.)
1830 cals in a days total
1636 cals if you use rice noodles.
I hope this helped
Bye.
This is great, thanks!
thank you!!
Not a student but I have never been to a store / farmers market where you can grab 1 egg, teaspoon of herbs etc. I would appreciate the realism here that you purchase the ingerdients like a student would, so essentially, planning a grocery list and then making it from there. That's where the true savings come from. I remember when I was a student the savings also came from what I could freeze or make in bulk, essentially cooking for 4 but freezing the 3 other meals for later use.
The true savings come from actually cooking with what you have at home. Over an extended period of time, if you don't let what you buy go to waste - this is what it will actually cost you. How many people just let stuff sit and go bad? That is what I call wasting money.
yeah i meal prepped some soup to but in the freezer not long ago. The soup was great and easy too make.. but now i owned celery... The recipe called for two stalks, but can you buy just two stalks? no. You buy a plant. So after the soup was done i was having to put
celery in absolutely everything to not let it go to waste. It was a whole week of meals like: scrambled eggs - With celery, Wrap - With celery, Pasta sauce - With fucking sellery And so on.. (I drew the line at bread with celery. )
So yeah, shopping is a pain and celery an even bigger pain. I will never again sit at my desk at midnight and eat half wilted raw celery stalks like an absolute gremlin. The soup isnt worth the pain
@@cooksoya7503 yeah i tried my best to cook with it, and i did end uo making a lot of food with it. The raw celery munching was a very desperate attempt to not let it go to waste as it was vilting.. and I don't have the economy to waste food and I didn't have the economy to buy more ingredients to cook stuff with it..... but I've learned my lesson: Any food is better than going hungry, except for raw wilted celery. I'd rather go hungry than eat that shit
@@cooksoya7503 and thanks for the tips! college is going great so far! (Not including the celery incident. Or the time I was having a really rough day and my dinner consisted of shoving handfuls upon handfulls of frozen peas down my throat... but we don't talk about that)
@@ciciamanda. i am sorry for the suffering the celery brought upon you
Hard to think you're a broke college student just because your content quality is so high
Haha thanks so much
Yeah he’s defiantly lying about being broke. That apartment is fancy asf
He's definitely not broke, iceberg lettuce is expensive asf (in Australia at least)
I don't even know why I need to make this edit. Stop shaming on me for saying a joke (selective to a country, sure, but it's still a f*cking joke)
@@wizfizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz1047 your saying hes not broke because he can afford lettuce
@@skrrt702 yes
0:48 shows you were at 4.6k subs in February. Quite the glow-up my man. Well deserved, this all looked super good.
I had to rewind when I first saw that like holy shit this dude is killin it
Holy shit he’s actually at 1mil huh
That screenshot is kinda suspicious though since it says -10 views on the video
youtube shorts grind
@@Thetravelingmonke 2m now
I love that you have natural light and don’t use studio lights. Just makes it look more realistic and genuine ❤️ ps. Love the recipes 😊
Sexy comment
idt a broke college student can afford studio lighting AHAHAH but he's made good use of what he has and now it's a whole vibe
Pans are much less annoying to me than grating an apple 🙃
But this oats recipe is kinda more interesting than those I see usually
ikr that grater will be sitting in the sink for a year till it disintegrates
Yhh.
I’m a middle school girl who’s still in 7th grade. I learned cooking from your Channel! You inspire me so much. At first i wasn’t that much into cooking but you just keep posting recipes more and more and they’re all delicious! Love your videos + keep the good work!!
Happy cooking :D
jax mains incoming
HII! I’m in high school now (Freshman) and I love seeing people who are somewhat around my age or a bit younger trying out cooking. I started when I was in 8th grade but kinda stopped. Good luck on the cooking journey!
Living in South Africa, I'm always fascinated by all the talk in rest of the world about how difficult and expensive it is to eat healthy. Just mindboggling for me.
what easy access healthy foods do you guys have over there? curious
@@jaret6661 We have people selling fresh fruits and vegetable out the back of a bakkie (ford pickup sort of thing) on the side of the street.
Plenty farmers markets in town, direct from our farmers, where public have access to the very market supplying restaurants and grocery stores.
Our most basic, even low income grocers have fresh vegetables and fruit etc.
And as for takeout, we have plenty healthy options which are even cheaper than the imports from US like Mcdonalds and Burger King, they are definitely better value for money.
Even our frozen vegetables are affordable. Equivalent of US1.50 for 1kg (Over 2pounds) of mixed frozen veg.
Oh, and more on take out. On their first two attempts of getting into South Africa, Mcdonalds went bankrupt, failed, we found the food so disgusting. They had to drastically adjust their approach and still barely making their 3rd attempt work. The only truly successful import to stand test of time has been KFC and SA version is nothing like USA at all.
And my family health, well, my youngest turns 6 and has never needed to see a GP.
Well, its global capitalism here in the USA. That means being healthy and eating fresh food is a commodity not a need.
yes its true, we have easy access to fast food and unhealthy food but healthier foods are very expensive
i appreciate the note in the intro addressing how you define healthy
i like cooking and i like tasty food. but due to my health and mental problems i hadn't cooked in a while and ate just whatever i could. your videos are really inspiring me to cook smth from them! they look pretty easy and won't take much time. I'm really thankful for motivation!
If you keep making quality videos like this you won't be broke for long
”I also add some cinnamon to add the taste of cinnamon” 😂😂😭
I love your simple yet healthy recipes! This motivates me to learn how to cook
These are my favourite type of meals, simple, quick but very flavourful. Been trying out soaked oat recipes for breakfast and yours looks like an absolute winner 😋
I love your simple yet healthy recipes! 😊 This motivates me to learn how to cook 💛
I am not a university student, however I have a hard time deciding what to eat or have for breakfast, this is definitely a great help! 💗
I tried the wrap and it turned out delicious! Thank you for the recipe!
As a student, i think that prepping is a great option, you cook in bulk 4 meals to save time, id 1,5 hour you can make food for 3 days, i recommend.
Just wanted to say I made the wrap and the tofu noods (but used tiny lil chicken thigh pieces instead) multiple times so far and they were both VERY good. I used to get those expensive meal kits, but for why?! I'm going to keep actually cooking. Thanks for the recipes, keep making videos please 🙏
have to say, the chicken wrap was absolutely delicious! tweaked the recipe a tad, removed the honey and hot sauce from the sauce, used chicken breast instead of the thigh as the store was out of thighs and made a larger one as my dinner! definitely will eat again!
It’s hard for me to remember you are a college student. You’ve been teaching us so much it’s easy to think you’re older than you are. I mean it as the highest compliment. Keep it up!
This video was great! And I would love to see more of these kind of videos! :)
Thankss you will!
Love these meals! I'm studying in the Netherlands and we eat with at least 5 people everyday so our meals are more family style (like every type of food you can imagine) but these are nice for when you eat on your own!
this was probably one of the most realistic and easiest videos ever, thank you so much!!
“The pan is ready to recieve your noods” 😂 8:00
High quality without unnecessary bullshit, easy and cheap for me as a student, perfect!
The noodle is a one and done classic asian dish. Im glad to see it featured so, as it’s literally so easy to make yet so good
Please do more of these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You're amazing. Your video made my day today.
"The pan is ready to recieve your noods" 😂
Saving my life with these videos, big up bro ✊🏽❤️
I really like your videos, and these recipes are real good, nutricious tasty and easy :D
The only thing I would advice is, use what you have. I sometimes get some ingredients that I dont really use that much and they end up going bad. So, even if that means cooking the same food a couple of times, you should all do what you can with what you have. Search for recipes, improvise, try to have fun and try to not overwhelm yourself ^^
I came across this video, and the recipes are very useful. They are easy to make and, as a bonus, really delicious. I've watched many videos like this, but the recipes were complicated and ingredients weren't affordable. But these meals are perfect because you don't have to spend a lot of time cooking . Tofu noodles are the best!! Thank you for your help
Would love some more videos like this pleaseee. This is exactly what I want yum, healthy, low effort and cheapppp
As a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, I approve! Great balances 💯🙏🏾
I love how your content just gets better and better
the most useful video about cooking for students i’ve ever seen on youtube🥰 thanks
I looooove cooking, as a student I never had problems choosing what to eat. I'm always looking for healthy, delicious and easy recipes to try....but these options, OH MY 🤤🤤 so quick, colourful and delicious!!! Thank you for your sharing 🫶
I'm not a student, but I find it very enjoyable to look to all sorts of sources for inspiration for my next meal. Without inspiration I often resort to the frozen crap at my local grocery store. I like the pallette of flavor you cultivate, so I think you've earned a new subscriber. I'm going to make those beautiful chicken thigh wraps for dinner tomorrow night with that bean salad as a side.
I got pleasantly surprised when it came time for the bean salad
That is because I recognised the cracker things you were not able to name. I am from Sweden and I believe that the brand you use is as well.
In Sweden we call those crackers ”Knäckebröd”
That roughly translates to “crisp bread” which is what we (or at least me and my English teacher) call it when speaking English
True, over here in Malaysia we call them crispbread.
in Austria/Germany we call it Knäckebrot
We also have these in the Netherlands and we also call them knäckebröd. Which is Swedish so we can’t pronounce it right lol
Skål mannen försöker också hitta hälsosamma måltider nu med inflationen som ökat priset. Fan hemskt just nu
Knekkebrød here in Norway
6:20 they’re awesome. In Denmark we call them knækbrød. They’re Nordic in origin, but in English they’re called “crispbread”.
In German we call them Knäckebrot :D
In Norway they go by Knekkebrød. :)
Yep
In french we call them grilletines
@@melkrause1264 So teuer aber
I made just the chicken thigh recipe itself and it was amazing!!! My first time ever cooking a meat and you helped make the process simple. Thanks for the video!
Hey! I hope everything's good your side. Yes make more videos like these.
Much appreciated!
I appreciate you qualifying that you aren't prescribing what is and isn't healthy for everyone else. Very woke of you ❤
I'm not a broke college student anymore but your pantry has more variety than mine
Great recipes!! I really enjoyed your video. I'd love to see more like this. Thanks!!
This video is GOLD, saying this as a student. Please make more
Wow, the oaks soaked in yogurt and honey is genius! I've been having the same breakfast for days now only changing up on the fruit and it's still so bomb. It works with anything and it's so easy to make! THANK YOU! 💕
Does he use Greek yoghurt or the regular yogurt?
@@Cypherior88 not sure which one he used, but I tried both and they're both good
oh man at last a cooking video that does not obsess about eggs. I personally hate the taste of eggs, and that's why I love your meal ideas!
Please please please make more I’m trying to move out soon and really love this for cheaper food options that also look really good
just found this gem ABSOLUTELY AMAZING♥♥
Asians rn: Where’s the rice?
hear me out...
so i get these oat cluster things from the grocery store, theyre like oats and nuts and other good stuff all stuck together and i basically put those and 2 tablespoons of high protein peanut butter into a bowl and microwave it then mix it all up
it tastes so fucking good i swear
@5:54 To keep the knife sharp it is best to use the noncutting edge of the knife when sweeping chopped foods.
thanks for the tip
Subscribed immediately. Such a good video! Thanks, it gave me lots of ideas
The cracker wafer is a swedish snack/breay called crispbread in English.
''Says he's broke, yet still lives in what looks like a 4k/m apartment" Yep, the usual youtuber cook video.
Dude, this is some amazing cooking. I'll definetely try some of those recipes myself.
Please, make more of these!! I don't love the veggies you used, but I love the idea!
More vids like this plis!!
This is awesome!
I'm learning how to cook these days and I'm going to be a college student in the near future hopefully so this may be useful
You are probably the only reason I actually wanted to eat healthily and eventually started doing so :)
Hello KWOOK, I love your videos, they are learnable , not expensive, educational, and very entertaining,. Thank you for making your videos!
this is an amazing idea. However when I was a college student I didn't have access to a stove let alone pots and pans. If I couldn't do it in a microwave I couldn't do it at all. That's honestly something I feel all of these types of broke college student videos forget. You have to have the utilities to do things. And for a large portion of college students (especially the ones who'd be looking at this type of stuff) they don't
They don't forget. They just understand that not everyone is American and fucked as a student. Where I live for example all students at least have a kitchen. There is more to the world than America sorry
You'll notice he's not using a kitchen either. Those portable stove thingies aren't that expensive.
@@mysidian they’re also banned in a lot of dorm halls, not that I give a shit what the university tells me I can and can’t have but some people do
honestly if you dont have a stove, get yourself a good little rice cooker and an electric kettle. both are usually allowed and will save your life wrt cooking food - u can cook a lot more than just rice in a rice cooker!
The only change I would make is marinating the tofu during lunch time in something like dark soy,light soy and anything else cuz I feel tofu is just a bit too bland even when seasoned heavily
Good idea!
@@letsKWOOWK thanks :)
These are incredibly useful!!! Please make more videos like this
This is the college prep we all need
I love your videos, as a fellow broke collegue student, ill be making the wrap today, thanks:)
I really wanna share my perfect recipe for breakfast: I soak oat with almond milk, put them into microwave for about 2 min in 65°C, which makes the oat sucks milk and softens. While waiting oat, i omelette 2 eggs to add more protein. Finally, i add soy sauce into the surface of oat and eat it with eggs, perfect and easiest breakfast for me 🥰
Please explain how the fuck soy sauce with oats is a good idea 😭
@@4rdency soy sauce goes well with almost everything i have to say 😂
Love this!! Please make more of these!!!!!
a junior high school student here, this helped as a lazy young woman who is too shy to ask anyone to cook for me
I'm not sure what other people cook but that oat breakfast you called "zero effort" is more effort than i put into 95% of my meals .-.
4:44 please I beg future me, make this.
Did future you make this
Did...did you make it yet??
I love your relationship with food, your food philosophy
I guess I'm kinda the same
So it's really comforting to know that im not alone
your place is so bright I can never handle that brightness
Dudes got nearly 3m subs.. pretty sure he's not still a broke college student
bro def not broke anymore xD
bro went from 4.6k subs to over 3 million 💀
I have pretty much the same type of oats/fruit/cinnamon combo for breakfast almost every day, but I like using blackberries/rasberries/blueberries instead of apple. I add protein by swapping between smoked herring, muscles, oysters, and sardines.
What's great about wraps is that even if you want to refrigerate it you can always heat it in a pan later to get it nice and crispy once again
0:03 cocaine , all i hear is cocaine nowadays
3:30 "Don't forget to wash your hands"...Don't forget to wash your chicken
Great video though 👍🏾
Don’t wash chicken, you just get salmonella on your sink, the heat kills bacteria
Def subscribing, this is the video I need rn as a broke college student, thanks mate 😭
I really like the concept of your videos 😁😂 , they really help me thanks for sharing 💕✨
i rlly enjoyed watching this!!
PS: even tho there's food cooked downstairs already i feel like cooking ramen now lmao
🙌🙌go eat day thing
As italian sometimes I'm shock from what people eat when they are "busy" or "don't have time to cook". Our "easy meals" are often other country "fancy meals"
Edit: I'm not speaking about u KWOOWK, u are great. Love ur videos
Love these videos 🥹keep ‘em coming 🤤
Yes! Please do more of these!
4:45 Unfortunately, I have the "cilantro tastes like soap" gene, and for me cilantro ruins any dish it is added to.
I tried eating overnight oats once and I had one of the worse stomach pains ever for the rest of the day. I can’t imagine what would happen if I ate oats that are pretty much raw.
That was probably because your stomach started moving because of the fibers it happened to me before
The fiber took action
This video is really good, I'm in love with your recipes
I loved seeing the current subs at 4605, look down to the subscribers count, and it's nearing 4 million. Great job my guy.
You're not really broke when you have all those ingredients.
If he can eat for less than 7 dollars a day, then how are these ingredients too expensive for you?
@@yourmajesty3569 as I said broke people don't have that money and honestly, there is no zucchini and other ingredients that are below $7
Bro lets be honest … you ain’t broke !😂
It’s crazy how much subscribers you gained in the past months! Well done!
Definitely trying those noodles. Thanks for sharing.