What to buy the moment you arrive
The day you arrive, you’re going to need to hit the supermarket for a few basic provisions. Check out the check-list for the store-cupboard essentials.
- Pasta: Quick, easy, adaptable and nutritious. Stuff the Atkins Diet.
- Pasta sauce: Spaghetti just doesn’t cut it unaccompanied.
- Milk: The cow’s gift to humankind.
- Butter: The other gift.
- Cheese: Damn, those cows are generous.
- Bread: Go for long-life.
- Coffee/tea
- Cereal
- Washing up liquid & dishcloth
- Beans: Doesn’t mean Heinz. Go economy.
- Soup: A meal in a mug.
- Biscuits: Be careful though – addiction isn’t pretty.
- Eggs, bacon, sausage: For the traditional student hangover fry-up.
- Laundry powder or liquid: forget the individually wrapped pouches – they're twice the price for fractionally more convenience. Just go for anything that's on a two-for-one offer.
Last updated on: 13 November 2008