How to Feed a Fresher

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s fresher’s week, and all over the country students are settling in to their new digs, frantically buying kettles, figuring out the microwave settings and stocking up on beans. Or are they?

We all know the stereotypes about what university students eat – it’s all burnt toast and ready-meals, late night take-aways and instant ramen, right? Well, perhaps not. When chef and food writer Lope Ariyo was at university, she adored cooking. Whether it was keeping herself fuelled for late-night study sessions, or rustling up a big warming dinner for her and her housemates, cooking and eating were a huge part of the university experience. Now, Lope is taking a look at what this year’s freshers are eating, how they learn to cook, and dispelling the myth that they’re all permanently teetering on the brink of food poisoning.

Presented by Lope Ariyo, and produced in Bristol by Emily Knight.

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0:49.8	If there's one thing we all know about students, it's that they can't cook.
0:57.0	It's just going to be like toasties.
0:59.0	Sounds like beans on toast for every meal.
1:00.0	A lot of meat.
1:01.0	I do like hooking ramen and a needle. They live on burnt toast, instant
1:05.8	ramen, pizza and vodka and all of them are permanently on the verge of food poisoning
1:11.5	or starvation. Right, they've got a lot of ready meals when I first came.
1:14.0	I also eat an unhealthy amount of cheese.
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