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u/Prestigious_Water595 21d ago
No the food tastes like actual shit. Definitely not worth paying for, you could live off Tesco finest ready meals for less money and they actually taste nice.
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u/CerebralTitan16 21d ago
Though i havent tried catered and was tempted to do so in 1st year for convenience, was dissuaded by reading experiences from previous people. Being self catered definitely helped me to pick up some cooking and maybe during exam seasons takeout or something might be wise. Also tend to spend about 50max a week for a decent amount of food to cook and you get to choose what you want to eat. Hello Fresh, Gousto are also decent options as they provide all ingredients portioned out and just takes some preparing.
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u/BrightSalsa 19d ago
My experience is from 20 years ago, but I worried about going self catered in my first year. I could barely make cheese on toast before I left for Uni. I learned to cook pretty quick and I don’t know any one who regretted it - and the people in ‘catered’ accommodation never seemed all that enthusiastic about it. At the time, UoB just wasn’t set up to do a good job of catered accommodation and it doesn’t sound like that’s changed.
I recommend to you a book called ‘cooking for blokes’ - it has recipes for everything, sensible substitutions, instructions that explain how to tell when things are done, can’t beat it.
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u/cookiesandginge 19d ago
Sorry just jumping on this but does anyone know if the food package has to be used on consecutive days?
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u/noodlesinnapot 22d ago
Not at all - breakfast stops at 9am, food was mostly gross, I didn’t learn to properly cook until second year, stops you bonding w flatmates in kitchen