Given some are moaning, some are being smug
And others are moaning at the smugsters, I feel perhaps that this answer is rather important:

b3ta.com/questions/skint/post16338

It speaketh of sense. Also, if you can find it, Legless' guide to student cooking is also a very good thing to read.

You can feed yourself well, and cheaply, with comparitively little effort, and inventiveness. The uses I've found for a bottle of reggae reggae sauce...
( jim_bob can herd cats., Wed 28 Jan 2009, 10:30, 3 replies)

due to 4 days sickness
This month's pay is missing 2 seperate bonuses and 4 days less pay. Due to chickenpox I'm £600 worse off this month, yeys, so everything I cook will be based on rice.

And yes, Legless's student cooking guide is very good, well worth spending a few mins swotting this up.
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 11:07, closed)

I can also recommend...
doing a gogle search for "Wartime recipes" or "rationing recipes" - things like Woolton pie are a) tasty, b) cheap and, c) good for you - if the poor/chav underclass at stuff like this instead of turkey twizzlers and KFC, we wouldn't have rampant obesity... By the way, if you're sat on your ass all day watching Jeremy Kyle whislt livign on benefits, what excuse is there for not cooking a proper meal, as opposed to getting takeaway or heating up some processed crap? If I and my wife can manage it and we both work, I am damned sure they can...lazy fuckers
(Chad, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 11:14, closed)

I'm hungry
Direct me to Legless' guide please if you will good sir, I am but an inept newbie
(Don't tell him Pike i'll probably just stay in, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 14:03, closed)