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Hello world!

Been a while since I've typed that.  Anyway, world, welcome to the Frugal Undergrad College Kitchen!  (Note the first letters if you're wondering why in the world I chose those four words)  The reasoning behind each of those words is simple, other than the fact they acronymize into, well, you know.

Frugal: this blog is intended to be about saving money...

Undergrad: while being an undergraduate...

College: college student...

Kitchen: by making your own food!  (I mean you usually do this in a kitchen, mileage may vary)

You might be asking yourself "But Fruncoki writer, what makes you think YOU can talk about it?"  Well, let me tell you.  A year ago I thought "cheap food" as a college student was mostly limited to ramen and whatever in your fridge would taste good with ramen.  And I still ate out a lot.  Like, a lot.  At least once a day.  And at some point, I realized a couple things.

1) Eating out is expensive.  Holy crap it is a lot of money to be budgeting five bucks for a lunch, let alone eight to ten when you eat as much as I do (the Ohio State campus is gigantic and my two majors are centralized on almost opposite ends of campus, so I walk a lot).

2) I was getting really tired of all the places on campus, and I didn't even eat the "campus-brand" food - just the slightly higher-quality fast food next to campus.

Now, I like my food.  It was around the time I started getting tired of the campus-area convenient food that I decided I should eat, you know, real food.  From my kitchen.  I knew I could at least not disgrace recipes easily, because I've never heard a word spoken against my teriyaki chicken (which isn't actually mine, but I've made it enough that I have the recipe memorized, so whatevs).  So the potential was there, clearly.  I just had to stop being a lazy fat undergrad college kid.  

So that's mostly what this blog is about, my trials and tribulations in becoming a frugal fooding student.  There'll probably be other tangents of frugality in this as well, at some point, but it'll be either related to food or just a short and mostly inconsequential bit.  I'm going to try to be pretty broad in scope, focusing mostly on what kind of food college students dig, starting from a couple of bare essentials (like bread, pizza, etc.) and moving along up to more complicated stuff (like pizza with toppings).  No actual content sans introduction for this entry, but that should change in the next couple days or so.

Also, if anyone's dissuaded from the idea of making most of your own food because of time constraints, I'm a dual-degree student who's also working and I can do this (so far).  Just gotta learn to be efficient.

With that, I end this post to make some tea.  Until next time, happy Fruncoking!