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This post brought to you by instant noodles!

See, I do my best to eat as healthy as my budget allows (damn you, fresh vegetables, why must you cost a fortune?) but now and then, especially by the end of the month when money is tight, I revert to my old student eating habits, i.e. cheap, filling food. It reminds me of the days when I only owned two glasses, two plates, and a coffee mug, and tried my very best to come up with tasty dishes that didn't cost anything because I spent all my money on more important things (books and beer). This one was a favourite! I wouldn't eat it every night like I did back in uni, but today I found that I had all the ingredients home and decided to make it.

Noodle soup for one
1 packet of shrimp-flavoured instant noodles
1/2 dl shrimps
1/2 dl frozen vegetables (I prefer corn, peas and red pepper)
curry powder
pepper powder
sweet chili sauce
salt and pepper

Prepare the noodles, without the flavouring. Heat vegetables, shrimp, spices and shrimp flavouring in a pan with a little butter until slightly soggy. Add the shrimp mix into the noodles. Delicious soup!


Do you have any nostalgia food like that? The first food you cooked for yourself when you moved away from home? Food your parents would be horrified if they'd known you were eating practically every day? Pure comfort food, food that brings out memories!

Since I don't have anyone to cook for at the moment, I thought I'd share some recipes instead. Or...well, semi-recipes. I don't use any measurements when I cook, I just pour stuff in until it looks and tastes good. But today, I did a little experimenting and the result was pretty good, so I give you: