10 Meals Easy to Cook in a Hostel

Breakfast: Eggs on Toast

Ingredients: Oil and/or butter, eggs and sliced bread.

1. Heat up some oil (or butter if you have no oil) in a frying pan
2. Fry a couple of eggs
3. Toast some bread
4. Spread butter on the bread
5. Put eggs on top of the toast (duh!)

For more stuff with eggs, head to 7 Ways To Cook Eggs In A Hostel.

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Lunch: Salad

Ingredients: Fresh and canned veggies, mayonnaise and oil.

1. Chuck your favourite canned and fresh veggies in a bowl.
2. Add spices from the free food shelf, salt and pepper.
3. Mix all together with mayonnaise and a dash of oil.

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Dinner: Mushroom Pasta

Ingredients: Pasta, sour cream, mushroom, instant onion soup powder, and spinach is an optional extra.

1. Heat oil in a frying pan
2. Fry mushrooms
3. When mushrooms are soft, stir in sour cream and instant onion soup powder
4. Cook pasta (we hope you don’t need telling how to do that, but if you do see here)
5. Add mushroom sauce to the pasta
6. Add spinach if you can afford it

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Breakfast: Chocolate Spread Sandwich

Ingredients: Chocolate spread and sliced bread. We say chocolate spread because it tends to travel well. Here are other foods that travel well.

1. Smear chocolate spread on one slice of bread or, if you are feeling wild, sandwich it!
2. Wanna make it healthier (which, of course, it is not to start with). Add sliced banana on top of the spread. Yum!

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Lunch: Wraps

Ingredients: Tortilla wraps, chicken or beef, cheese, and seasonal veggies.

You can wrap anything, really, go crazy! But to keep things simple…

1. Stir fry meat and veggies
2. Warm-up a tortilla
3. Stick meat and veggies in the tortilla
4. Ok, go ahead and stick some cheese in there as well
5. Roll it up!

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Dinner: Croque Monsieur

Ingredients: sliced bread, cheese, bacon, butter, and an optional tomato.

1. Spread butter on the toast
2. Cook a couple of rashers of bacon
3. Pile ingredients in this order: toast #1, cheese, bacon, cheese, toast #2.
4. Add a tomato, if you want to feel slightly healthier.
5. Toast it all together until the bread is golden brown

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Breakfast: Pancakes

Ingredients: Pancake mix, milk/water and something yummy to spread on the pancakes.

1. The best way to make friends in a hostel…
2. Use the instant pancake mix and follow instructions on the package
3. Add milk or water
4. Smother in jam, syrup or chocolate spread or whatever you have!

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Lunch: Chicken Curry

Ingredients: Rice, curry powder, sour cream and chicken.

1. Boil rice in water with a teaspoon of curry powder
2. Fry chicken in a frying pan
3. To the chicken, add sour cream and add a teaspoon of curry powder
4. Let them heat for a further 2 minutes and serve together however you desire.

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Dinner: Stir Fry Veggies

Ingredients: Seasonal veggies, oil, soy sauce (or another sauce you are into).

1. Heat oil in a frying pan
2. Grab a bunch of seasonal veggies
3. Toss them into the frying pan
4. Add soy sauce in the pan 2 minutes before serving.

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Dinner: Ham Fried Rice

Ingredients: Frozen or fresh veggies, ham, oil and spices.

1. Boil rice in water
2. Once the rice is cooked, fry veggies, spices and ham in a pan
3. Then add the rice 2 minutes before serving
4. Ok, we will let you exchange the Spam for bacon, chicken or eggs if you like.

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