{"id":3109,"date":"2018-04-19T16:56:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2018-06-05T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:48:51","slug":"hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/students\/communication-media-studies\/hunger-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do you find yourself always\u00a0broke? Always\u00a0hungry\u00a0yet too\u00a0lazy\u00a0to put in the work? Endless boxes of\u00a0Papa Simon\u2019s\u00a0Pizza piling up in your kitchen? Are you a non-catered student longing for someone to cook for you always? Constantly buying ready-made meals from the\u00a0purple onion? Find yourself eating the same thing and not eating sometimes because the thought of cooking makes you weaker than doing the actual cooking. Then this my friend is the post for you. By giving you tips on how to survive. My next post would be actual meals you can make that are both nutritious and delicious.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a first-year student living in a non-catered accommodation cooking is expected from you because no one else is going to feed you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>So how can I help you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u00a0are 3 important tips\u00a0to make the process of cooking less dreadful and ensure you don\u2019t starve one day.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Tip 1: Always make more than enough<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">When cooking,\u00a0think of various situations that may prevent you from cooking next time, don\u2019t be shy to add more rice, more pasta, more chicken and more of whatever you&#8217;re making. Who knows when next you\u2019ll be able to cook. That essay isn\u2019t going to finish itself, that party isn\u2019t going to wait for you and that personal trainer isn\u2019t going to wait for you to finish cooking before you make the appointment. If you\u2019re thinking of making 2 portions\u00a0<strong>Forget that<\/strong>\u00a0make 5. Go big or go home. Just think of it, after a long day of doing nothing or coming back from the gym you don\u2019t want to start thinking about what to cook you already have food. If that isn\u2019t a WIN situation then I don\u2019t know what is.<\/p>\n<h3>Tip 2: Always have plastic containers and ziplock bags on hand<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">After making a large amount of food the next thing is having a place to store it. Truth be told its easier to store cooked meals than ingredients and food items especially with the limited spaces we are allocated. Therefore, plastic containers are important you can store that food for next day and it wouldn\u2019t hurt to store it in a microwavable container so when you pull it out from the fridge it doesn\u2019t require much handling. The next post will make more sense of why the Ziplock bags are necessary till then just trust me and go and buy some.<\/p>\n<h3>Tip 3: Never cook alone or without a form of entertainment<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Surely you don\u2019t want to burn the kitchen to the ground, but you don\u2019t want to faint from boredom while cooking alone. It&#8217;s very important to have flatmates or friends around, you don\u2019t even have to talk to them their presence will motivate you to want to cook quickly and not embarrass yourself in the process. It\u2019s a necessary evil but an efficient one at the same time. In the situation, no one is around, whip out your speakers and have a little dancing session or play a movie in the background trying to eagerly go back to enjoy it will motivate you to work\/cook faster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u201cHappy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favour.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/153394.Suzanne_Collins\"><strong>Suzanne Collins<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/2792775\"><strong>The Hunger Games<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you find yourself always\u00a0broke? Always\u00a0hungry\u00a0yet too\u00a0lazy\u00a0to put in the work? Endless boxes of\u00a0Papa Simon\u2019s\u00a0Pizza piling up in your kitchen? Are you a non-catered student longing for someone to cook for you always? Constantly buying ready-made meals from the\u00a0purple onion? 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