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University student in need of help - living on my own!
I'm at school right now, and the way we do it with the first set of roommates is to have separate food except for the things that it was impossible or silly to have multiples of in the fridge - mainly gallons of milk and eggs. We also share baking stuff like flour and baking powder since no one really bakes enough to use up a whole thing of flour on their own. There are enough cabinets for everyone each to have their own cabinet of stuff (well, me and my boyfriend share one, I guess we count as one person :-P)
Otherwise we share dishes and cooking equipment, which is awesome since one of my roommates has an awesome set of knives. I agree with the advice about not taking anything really nice - while we've managed not to destroy that wonderful knife set, college students are in general incapable of not breaking dishes or understanding the concept of not piling large amounts of dishes on top of your new pans. >.
I got by for a year with a pan or two, two pots, some crappy knives for cutting, and cutting boards. I gradually bought more stuff as I needed it, as I got tired of doing ghetto things like mixing cake mix in one of the pots because I didn't have a mixing bowl.
Where Americans Are Cutting Corners: Food
My boyfriend and I have always had a food budget - $200 for the both of us, not as far down as we could get it if we were really trying, but not huge either. Still leaves room to try new things, too. However, in the past couple of months it's gotten really hard to keep within budget, so we've been eating a lot less meat.
Cook the Book: 'Kneadlessly Simple'
Whole wheat sandwich bread is what I bake the most...but I think making pizza crust is the most fun. It's not really a bread though.. does that even count?
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My friends and I always hit Walmart to grab snacks before movies - my favorite combo is juice boxes and dried cranberries for some reason.