College is back, which means quick dinners, tighter budgets and at least one night a week when cooking feels like a lot of effort.
The good news? Easy student meals do not have to mean plain pasta on repeat. With a few Fused favourites, some smart store cupboard staples and whatever is already hanging around in the fridge, you can make something properly tasty without spending a fortune.
Here are three student-friendly dinners we’d actually want to eat ourselves.
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1. Curried Fried Rice For One
This might be the ultimate end-of-the-week student dinner.
Our
Curried Fried Rice For One
is built around using what you already have: leftover rice, an egg, a handful of frozen veg and whatever protein is available.
Add Fused Chinese Curry Stir Fry Sauce and suddenly the random bits at the back of the fridge become an actual dinner.
Why it works for students
Make it with leftover rice from the night before, frozen peas instead of fresh veg and whatever protein needs using up. One egg goes a surprisingly long way here too.
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2. Use-It-Up Vegetable Chow Mein
Chow mein is ideal when you have vegetables that are getting dangerously close to their final day in the fridge.
Start with Fused Medium Egg Noodles and Fused Chow Mein Stir Fry Sauce, then add whatever makes sense: cabbage, carrots, mushrooms, peppers, broccoli or frozen stir fry veg.
Our
Easy Vegetable Chow Mein
is designed to be flexible, so there is no need to buy six different vegetables just because a recipe tells you to.
Want to make it more filling? Add chicken, beef, pork, prawns or tofu depending on what is already in the fridge or on offer that week.
Student shortcut
Buy one bag of frozen stir fry vegetables and keep it in the freezer. Then noodles + veg + Fused Chow Mein Sauce becomes a proper dinner even when the fridge is looking fairly tragic.
Get the Easy Vegetable Chow Mein recipe →
3. One-Pan Teriyaki Chicken That Sorts Tomorrow’s Lunch Too
If you are going to cook, you may as well get more than one meal out of it.
Our
One-Pan Teriyaki Chicken & Veg Bake
makes four portions and is ideal for cooking once, eating twice.
Use chicken thighs if they are better value, add carrots, onion and whatever other vegetables you have, then coat everything with Fused Teriyaki Stir Fry Sauce.
Serve it with rice for dinner, then pack another portion for college the next day.
Make the budget stretch further
Cook extra rice while you are at it. Tomorrow’s leftover rice can become the curried fried rice above, so one bit of meal prep does the work twice.
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You do not need a cupboard full of specialist ingredients. A few basics can cover a lot of dinners.
Keep in the cupboard
Rice, Fused Medium Egg Noodles, soy sauce and your favourite Fused Stir Fry Sauces.
Keep in the freezer
Frozen peas, mixed vegetables or stir fry veg. Cheap, handy and there when you need them.
Cheap fridge heroes
Eggs, carrots, cabbage, onions and whatever protein is on offer that week.
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Less Takeaway Panic. More Proper Dinners.
Student cooking does not need to be complicated. Start with one good sauce, use what you already have and make enough that tomorrow’s lunch is sorted too.
Because saving money is good. Eating something you actually look forward to is even better.
