In Hostel rooms we have to keep your food limited and safe. We need to store the food which stays longer as that the food which has less or no water content in it.
Well to start with i listed few of the regular essentials and other food items to have in your hostel rooms if you have the option of cooking. Otherwise you can go with the instant food mix or else have some fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts that helps to make easy recipes and fill your hungers.
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Best Food items to always have in your hostel rooms
For easy salad preparation:-
We can prepare different varieties of salad and sprout preparation with the basic ingredients.
So if you want have healthy salad just soak the green moong over night and remove the water and cover with a cloth, tie it and keep aside. The sprouts are ready for the next day.
Take the sprouts plain or else mix with the grated vegetables and just sprinkle little salt and lemon.
- Green moong
- Black chana
- Vegetables like carrot, cucumber, lemon
- Fruits like banana, apple, grapes, guava, orange, pomegranate, kiwi, berries
- Dry fruits- Almonds, Raisins, cashew nuts they are rich in calorie so keep limited. Soak the Almonds and nuts overnight and have it in the morning can give you enough energy.
For sandwich:-
- Bread
- Different spreads for bread like jam, peanut butter, chocolate spread,cheese
- eggs
Spices for biryani/Gravy curries:-
- Garam masala
- Biryani masala
- Biryani spices
- Coriander powder
- Jeera powder
For instant food recipes:-
Quickmeal Oats and cornflakes have the benefit of no-cooking. In some hostels, students are not allowed to have kettle or induction cookers etc. Hot water or Hot milk which we always get in hostel mess can be added to the Oats and Cornflakes and it is ready to eat!
Now a days different healthy instant mixes are available in the market. so just check the need and stock it un your rooms for instant fillings as either for breakfast,lunch,dinner recipes.
If you stock few items like puffed rice or poha you can make easy chats with it just by adding onions, tomatoes and lemon.
- Poha rice
- Murmure/ Puffed rice
- Oats
- Cornflakes
- Maggi
- Instant mix like dosa,upma,vada, idli
- soup packets
Regular essentials
- Oil
- Salt
- Red chilli powder
- Ghee
- Turmeric powder
- Cereals
- Pulses
- Different flours like wheat flour,besan,ragi
- Varieties of Upma ingredients
- sambar powder
- rasam powder
- pickles/powders
- sugar
- jaggery
Energy boosters
- Coffee/tea powder
- Sachets of Horlicks, boost or any other mix u can have with milk
- Green tea
- Biscuits
- Roasted peanuts
- Honey
- Ready to eat snacks or mom prepared foods
- Namkeen/chips packets
- fruit juices
Things to follow:-
We all know that hostel food is nowhere around our mom made food. And of course everyone staying outside miss the home food especially the hostlers miss the most. So, these are some of the things you can store in your rooms that helps you Stay fit and healthy! !
- Never Skip Breakfast! It is the essential food you should intake.
- Have enough sleep and proper exercise daily exercise. Enjoy what you are having and a healthy diet works only with proper workout and also a proper rest.