I live with my parents so I don\'t really have any anti-cockroach advises (besides buying some anti-cockroaches poison spray thing and spraying them with it until they drown...), but I do have a few culinary advises.
As said before, get a huge freezer, and buy bulks.
Now, what should you buy?
Meat is the most important thing. You\'ll probebly live mostly from meat because it\'s alot more filling than lettuce. And a very important thing about starting to live on your own is not to waste money. So you have to eat food that is cheap, filling, it\'s leftovers can be left in the fridge for tomorrow, and eatable.
There are two types of meat you should probebly get a few pounds of:
1. Ground meat (beef - lamb is too fat and don\'t preserve well, pork is just weird for it)
2. Fillet steak (pork - I haven\'t tried lamb or beef for it so don\'t take any risks).
Ground meat is a very good type of meat, because you can eat it in an infinite amount of variations so it won\'t be boring.
Fillet is good because it\'s probebly the easiest type of meat you can make. It\'s even easier than making a sandwich.
I\'ll start with Fillet because it\'s easier:
Take a pan, put it on the stove, light the stove, pour some cooking oil into the pan. Let the oil heat.
Meanwhile, get the Fillet out of the freezer, if you got some spices, put them on it. Then throw it into the pan.
Fillet is a T&F, Throw-And-Forget. You throw it into the pan, wait a few mins, flip it, wait some more, and that\'s it. No need to mess around with it, and it tastes good even spiceless.
Now, ground meat is diffrent.
First thing you have to remmember, is NOT TO PUT THE GROUND MEAT IN ONE CHUNK IN THE FREEZER otherwise you\'ll get a brick of meat. Sounds cool, yeah, but defrosting it will be a pain, and it\'s not good to defrost and then put back in the freezer.
What you should do is prepare the meat when you get it. You can buy 1.5kg (3 pounds for you) of ground meat, make burgers out of it, put them in the freezer, and you won\'t be hungry for a month (or more, if you eat other things besides it).
Besides burgers you can make kebabs, squarish burgers, star-shaped burgers, ring-shaped burgers, or whatever you want.
Even if you don\'t want the ground meat for these things, you should freeze it in kebab shapes. It\'s fast to defrost, you don\'t have to defrost the whole thing, and it\'s convinient.
A very nice thing you can, and should, make from the ground meat is a pot-full of it.
Pour some oil into it (not much) and fry onions and stuff like that in it.
Throw alot of (defrosted) ground meat inside, and use some big wooden spoon to stir it. You have to stir and mix the ground meat alot. Both so the meat in the bottom won\'t scortch, and so the meat won\'t stick and then you\'ll get one big chunk of uneatable meat.
Throw a few slices of tomatoes and mix them in it too. When you mix it you should do it in a half-pounding way. It\'ll both squash the tomatoes to get the juice out of them, and make sure the meat doesn\'t stick.
After all of the meat is semi-fried (you can tell by the color, it\'s kinda grayish, and completely diffrent than the look it had when you bought it), add lot\'s of olives. Lot\'s and lot\'s of \'em. The more olives you add, the better. It should be unsliced olives without the kernel, mind you. Kerneled and/or sliced olives suck.
Right after you mix the olives in the meat, get a bottle of very cheap red whine, and pour alot of it into the pot. Pour enough so the wine will get to the surface of the meat (but not pass it)
The alcohol in it doesn\'t really matter, it\'ll dissipate in seconds, so just get the cheapest one.
You\'re pretty much done. Leave it like that without a cover for some time so it\'ll thicken, stirring every once in a while. You should leave it until there\'s not much juice left. Or just taste to see when it\'s good and decide it\'s enough.
What you get is a pot-full of meat. It tastes really great because it\'s meat, and it got olives and other lesser things to give it some flavor. You just sit infront of the comp with the pot next to you, and eat it using a spoon.
When you\'re full, just shove it in the fridge.
Turned up longer than I wanted, I hope it\'s useful.
