Cheap Yet Filling The Best Snacks to Munch on For Students

With the risk of sounding like your nagging parents, we are going to start off by suggesting that college students mostly spend their pocket-money on junk foods, or as they might want to call them – SOS foods.

If you have decided to read on further through this blog after reading the title, then it means that you definitely understand which part of your monthly expenses is ‘eating’ away your budget. Before we begin our list of cheap yet filling snacks for college students, read the incident mentioned below to ascertain that we are the right people to take food advice from! Almost all of us may find this story highly relevant to some of our own experiences with hunger.

You get off from the endless hours of class after class daily grind and some more tuition classes when you hear a bone-chilling almost haunting sound, like that from a man-hungry haunted mansion and you soon realize that it is nothing but the sound of your stomach. You remember that in this daily grind you completely forgot to refuel your stomach and start imagining how you can indulge in some fast food to satiate your hunger.

You head off to a nearby Indie-Chinese joint with a menu of delicacies that are mostly spelt wrong and suddenly the smell of freshly cooked tandoori or Chinese food whooshes into your nostrils making you drool uncontrollably. So much so, that while ordering the food you can barely keep your bodily embarrassment in your mouth and the waiter is slyly smiling seeing your hunger. Seeing this unspoken exchange between you and the waiter you choose to get out of the situation fast and do not even ask you about the total and order as much as possible. Soon the food arrives and you pounce at it embodying a lion in his conquests. After you’re done you ask for the cheque and seeing the amount mentioned in the bill what leaves your mouth is not a satisfactory burp but an exclamatory sigh! Darn it...you know have to diet and live on bananas for the next two days to compensate for this impulsive indulgence!

Relevant right?! But fear not as we have some other convenient options other than plain old banana for snacking within budget. Here’s a list of such foods:

Go nuts for nuts:

This is an easy way to find a healthy dose of protein while not compromising the health of your pockets. To keep things interesting try a mixed bunch of nuts for some added sweetness and combination of different textures. And the best bangs for your protein buck are pistachios and almonds.

If you want to get especially adventurous then you can also try some pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds.

You get Yogurt:

Again to save your pocket from getting hurt (rhyming unintended) you could get some yogurt which is a healthy and economical snack that is also readily available. This food has also got some recent buzz as a pop culture favourite, but it does have some valid points for staying. A snack low in sugar with a good content of protein and being a creamy delight (Greek yogurt) to be a good replacement or ice-cream makes this a weight loss staple.

Eggs for eggs-treme hunger:

Too hungry to think straight?! Do not get lured into buying that oil dripping cutlet, simply reach for the hard-boiled egg instead. They are fast filling as well as light on the pockets being around INR 5-6 only. They are also a primo protein source and are packed with healthy amino acids. The compound choline present in eggs is also known to be fat fighting.

Here were our best examples of cheap yet filling snacks that do not taste blunt, or in other words are not Oats! But jokes aside sometimes college students get really hungry and the wait to getting a healthy food when there are so many easy unhealthy options available around them is difficult. So, we recommend that you step into a quality eatery that make their foods from scratch and use fresh produce. And if you are worried about your budget, then try out a college student discount card to save on every order.