Most students don’t have a lot of cash to spend on food, but that doesn’t mean you have to go hungry. With the right recipes and some kitchen savvy, you can eat great even on a student’s budget. Here we’ll share 100 tasty recipes that you can make on the cheap over the next few weeks. Let’s start with the most important (and first) meal of the day: breakfast.
Breakfast
Get a good start to your day with these cheap-o breakfasts.
- Hash browns: Hash browns are cheap and easy to make, and cheaper than a trip to IHOP.
- Puff pastry chicken and bacon: You can make bacon and chicken in puff pastry using this recipe.
- Microwave scrambled eggs: Make scrambled eggs in the microwave with this recipe.
- Breakfast burritos: You can make these burritos ahead for a quick microwave breakfast.
- Onion quiche: This quiche makes a delicious, incredibly cheap breakfast.
- Omelet in a bag: Boil eggs and some handy ingredients for this simple, cheap omelet.
- Frittata: Add eggs to cheese, vegetables, and herbs you have handy in your fridge to make a frittata.

