So you're a student ...

You are excited, nervous, CANNOT WAIT to have your own place, own room, free of like rules and restrictions and stuff, y'kno?
Firstly. Well done on filling out the form / writing the paper all about how great you are. Well done for studying/cramming/cheating your way in. Well done for the gap year and those roads/walls/ huts you built and that piercing you got or for the LC holiday you organised and that piercing you got. Well done for packing your bags, buying the plane/train/bus ticket and moving out (or not).
Well done on arriving and realising shit. You have to clean. You have to wash your dishes. You have to ... cook.

I can guarantee this won't be realised until the first alcoholic haze is passed. This could last for anywhere between two weeks to two months to, in some cases, never. During this fun and memorable (yeh...) period, starch, fat and sugar will feature heavily in any respectable student diet. By this I mean Take-out. Take-out. Take-out. Oh, and caffeine. This is a grim time. You come out of this initial party haze disorientated, failing and grey. Simultaneously jittery from the sugar consumption and sluggish from the massive kebab you ate last night, college is looking up.

Lets add to this the awkward detail of allergies and it gets a whole lot more complicated. Sadly all our cheapest eats involve two of the most common killas: dairy and wheat.

Typical Student Diet (alco haze and beyond).

Breakfast/Snack

cereal (wheetabix, krave, cookie crisp, shredded wheat, shreddies)
+milk.
toast.
Some brunch variation.
The Fry.

Lunch/Dinner/Snack 

pizza (take-out/eat in)
pasta (many take great pride in the fact they can cook pasta. Invited over for dinner at your mates?   You're eating pasta, probably bolognese.)
Sandwiches, toast, bread plain (flavoured with mould)
ice cream, yoghurt,
chocolate bars, bars of all sorts.

(The headings are just aesthetics. There is no real mealtimes in Student Life. You eat when you are hungry or when you are hungover. End of. One of the joys is finding out that noone will frown at you when you take an overflowing bowl of crunchy nut to bed with you. They might never want to get into said bed with you but who cares, you're living the crunchy nut dream.)

As you can see, not much room for wheat free or dairy free (or fruit and veg).

Also, not much room for anything that takes over fifteen minutes to prepare or any meal that costs over a fiver.

So, I'm here to solemnly pledge to you that I, me, will do my very bestest to MAKE ROOM.

I'll try those weird looking recipes, I'll buy that odd looking cereal, I'll read boring books and skim other peoples blogs (and steal all their design ideas), I'll eat the questionable thing on the menu and be that girl who asks for the gluten free option, All for You, All so You Don't Have To. 

I'll do the hard stuff so you can live and eat like a student: cheap, easy and allergy happy.