h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Toast, Pasta and baked beans is what we used to live off as students.

Oh yeah and turkey, which is cheaper than chicken but almost indistinguishable if cooked in a Wok!

Fortunately during my period as a student the supermarkets were on an own brand baked beans price war with prices as low as 4p per can!

Easy and oh so cheap!

Ingredients:
1 can Heinz Vegetarian Beans in tomato sauce(readily available the world over)
1 medium sized yellow onion
1 large green bell pepper
1 cup instant white or brown rice
2 tbsp Heinz 57 sauce (or other suitable spicy ketchup)
1 tbsp. oil or cooking spray.

Assuming that you are recovered from your shoplifting expedition for the ingredients, find things to cook these in. You'll need a covered pot for the rice, and a frying pan for the other stuff, and stuff to stir them around. You'll also need a knife and a chopping board.

Clean the bell pepper, make sure that you've cleaned out all of the seeds, and chop into large dice. Do likewise with the onion. Start cooking the rice according to package directions.

In a medium sized frying pan. heat your oil. Cook your onions and peppers until the onions are a lovely shade of golden brown, and everything is tender and smells great. Open your tin of beans and add the whole heaping mass into the frying pan, and stir well to combine. Add two tablespoons of the Heinz 57 Sauce, stir, and let simmer until the rice is fluffy.

Serve a cup or so of rice, and a cup or so of the bean mixture, and stir them together for a pleasant tasting, nutritious and filling meal. This should last for two days of lunches and dinners.

All I eat is fishfingers, pasta, jacket potatoe & baked beans, plus sandwhiches.

Packet soup with toast and marnite (nearly all food groups?)

Or 'soup' in the general style of Ginger's wok recipe but instead of stir-frying, you boil up all the contents of the fridge (add stock cube if decadent - and blend it if wealthy student flatmate owns blender)

Where can we get other Heinz sauces rather than no. 57?

I always keep a tin of Heinz tomato soup in reserve for when I don't make it to the shops for a while and eat everything else. The value and reduced to clear sections in supermarkets are also good as are tesco fish fingers (57p or something for 20) which make exellent, back from the pub food. Tesco economy burgers are also good at 99p for 20. Better if tehy tasted like meat and didn't smell funny while cooking. Lots of bread for toast as well.