30-minute meals…or more?
With deadlines looming and only half an hour before you take a well deserved break to watch your favourite TV programme, it’s all too easy to settle for a quick and easy microwave meal. Perhaps with this in mind, Jamie Oliver has kindly provided a solution with his ‘30-minute meals’. But are they really as easy to make as he makes it look? Leeds Student’s, Alia Hague find out.
The World’s Largest Beer Party: Oktoberfest
Are you a fan of beer? Perhaps you enjoy an accompanying sausage? Do you have a weakness for buxom blondes and/ or moustachioed men in lederhosen? If the answer is yes to any of the above then you are in luck, thanks to the famous Oktoberfest. Held, bizarrely, at the end of September (perhaps the [...]
Eco Diary: Week 2
It’s been just over a week since the OWL started monitoring our house’s energy outputs and I have made several observations whilst trying to conserve energy. Number 1: cooking in the dark just isn’t practical. Number 2: cold showers are a no go. Number 3: never EVER turn the television off during Gossip Girl: ‘I’m [...]
Growing Your Own Food: The Cheap, Healthy Way or just a Waste of Time?
As students we attempt to spend as little money as humanly possible on sensible things like books and food, and instead spend all our money (and most of our overdrafts) on drinking too much and buying numerous dresses to go out and drink too much in. No student wants to spend their loan on books [...]
The World’s Biggest Food Fight: La Tomatina Festival
Fancy pelting over-ripe tomatoes at a throng of half- naked Spaniards? This featured high up on my list of things to do in life, and with this idea in mind I persuaded my less than keen boyfriend to get up early and mission it to La Tomatina. El Buñol is a small town near Valencia, [...]
Eco Diary: Week 1
These days, everyone is trying to do their bit for the environment. Regrettably I’m all talk and very little in the way of action: to change this, I have agreed to install an OWL electricity monitor into my student home. This very nifty contraption attaches to your electricity metre and can tell you how much [...]