Your food cupboard is a place for keys, wallets, someone's left glove, that costume accessory you wore that awesome night out but due to your exhaustion it got thrown in there and never quite made it back to your room. Application forms, notes, numbers, things you thought you'd need, never did but didn't quite have the heart to throw tem out.
Out of date food
Half opened pasta (it's a given, you likely have about five packets of this)
Your favourite mug that half way through the year as your cutlery started disappearing and plates started getting broken you decided it's better safe in your cupboard where even you can't find it half the time, than out where lovely flatmates can and will get it.
Your mammys bowl/casarole dish/good container, this is of course if you were fortunate enough to be given something homemade from dear mummy's kitchen, I've heard of this rare honour, but personally I've only been given it when there was a party and far too much stew (this item in which your mammy transported that food is a sacred responsibility god help you if you break it before it finds it's way home at the end of semester)
Pens you decided you could live without but then couldn't find them until you moved out
More lighters and bottle openers than you will ever even buy for the rest of your adult life
That guy/girls jacket from that party that you don't quite remember why it was left behind but after a few months you decided it was yours.
The only set of sponges you bought all year and decided by disposable the company clearly meant, use until they disintegrate in your dishes
Straws and a dozen near empty mixers .... Don't deny it
Cello tape from someone's birthday banner
Mugs from your favorite cafés (mainly Starbucks) that you decided you've given them so much business it's time you started decorating your house with their freebies (ok so maybe they aren't meant to be free, sometimes it's like hotel rooms, they expect you to knick stuff )
The only veggies you own are the ones frozen to the bottom of the drawer in your freezer, and let's face it they're only there because it was bought when you first moved up and you and your mammy decided you'd be oh so healthy this year, maybe even join a gym (cos that happened)
6 chairs between 8 people and only three of them are actually safe to sit on
A mop bucket that was likely used as an ash try for the better part of the year
If you're a first year, the tops of your cupboards are more than likely lined with the standard stolen goods and empty trophies cough** I mean bottles ( after first year you realise this is highly unsanitary and there aren't enough cupboard tops, your appearance alone says how much drink you've consumed and help you need)
And the cherry on any student kitchen.... That mountain of rubbish that you put in the 'rubbish corner' it's the first thing anyone sees and let's face it, it should probably be their least concern since you can't remember the last time fairy liquid was bought.
HOWEVER im too classy to take photos of the extreme mess (plus i think thats boarder line abuse for you lot) so ill leave most of you to reminisce on your students days with these few photies. (or for you soon to be students, this is a fair warning on your dietary needs, and what to expect wee bit)
This is what your cupboard will look like when you are reasonably well off.... expect to see dust and uneatable objects when youre broke, maybe a tin of sainsburys basics if youre lucky.
I know this looks like a sorry site of a fridge to the unsuspecting eye (students and broke people arent in that catagory) but this is a fridge of wonders... theres MILK and and and butter, and even a form of meat. lets not lie, those are rare!
following on from the fridge of wonders, this cupboard, between a whole household actually has not just sugar but salt ! (well tbh we always seem to have salt, i dont know who buys it or why more than one person ever buys it, but we always seem to have it) this is a happy cupboard. it possess everything you need for that last comfort of home. tea.
prioritize people, prioritize
snack you say? no no, LUNCH. actually this is breakfast dinner, this is a square meal.
a big filling smarties cookie (a packet of tescos milk chocolate basics works too) some form of chocolate or nummyness and a drink in a questionable glass.
dont worry us fat students dont just live on cheap junk food that lasts far longer (and has less preparation required) than hot food, we have our one off hot meal a day hopefully (if you budgeted right) however to spread the day out you might wanna eat the above and try wait as long as possible before you get your one daily hot meal. in my case it normally happens around 11 at night so i dont have a grumbly old stomach during nights burning midnight oil. you can have the craic during the day on an empty belly, but you cant sleep or do work on an empty belly. dont be silly now.
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