College Cooking: Easy, Yummy, and Nutritious

As a senior in college, I am trying to keep my meals four things: cheap, delicious, healthy, and easy to prepare. Most of the time it is almost impossible to get all of those at once, but it doesn't stop me from trying! A friend and I have started to make freezer crockpot meals ahead of time. We went grocery shopping together and split the bill in half. This saves money! Plus, no one really needs 8 servings of something to eat all by themself (barf). 

This was tonight's meal: 

I should probably work on my food photography skills.

Anyways, the brown blob is beer braised "flank" steak. I got the recipe from slenderkitchen.com. I ended up using a sirloin steak instead of flank steak because it was much cheaper ($12 dollars total for 2, 1 pound servings but half is $6- also, it makes about 3 servings each). This recipe also calls for a lot of spices so if you already have them you're in luck! It calls for beer to braise it in so we bought a light one on sale for $1. For this recipe if you use sirloin, the crockpot does not need to run 8 hours on low. It was a little tough and dry- I'd say right around 4-5 hours since it's a thin cut and has also been seared for 2 mins on each side before freezing. 

The green things pictured are snow field peas. I washed them (just an individual portion), put them in a glass bowl, doused them in soy sauce, and microwaved it for two minutes with a paper towel covering. They were GREAT! 

Gotta run, college calls! :)