While the hustle and bustle of going back to school is underway the last thing on your mind is food... or maybe its the first thing and you're "already too broke" to eat anything but a Happy Meal from McDonalds. BUT, here are some quick and easy recipes (that aren't terribly expensive and can be made with simple appliances) for your crazy college life.

In order there are 3 breakfast, 5 snack, 3 lunch and 4 crock pot ideas.

Peanut Butter Toast with Banana

1 to 2 piece(s) of Toasted Bread (I prefer wheat or whole grain)

Peanut Butter (as much as you'd like spread on the toast)

1 sliced banana

Simply toast your bread, while the bread is toasting slice your banana. Once the toast is ready spread Peanut Butter on toast then place the banana slices on top!

Cheese Toast (My personal favorite!)

1 to 2 pieces of Toasted Bread (wheat or whole grain)

1 to 2 slices of Cheese (I prefer Colby or Pepper Jack cheese made with 2% milk)

Simply toast your bread and place slice of cheese on top immediately after toasting for proper melting. If you like your cheese even more melted just pop it in the microwave for 10 seconds.

BONUS: I like to add a few extra ingredients to spice up my cheese toast!

1/2 tomato or a few baby tomatoes

1/2 avocado

about 1TBS of diced onion (or 2 to 3 rings of an onion diced

Just slice and dice the tomato, avocado and onion and throw them on top of the toast with a sprinkle of pepper for a morning delicacy. (HINT: prep the extra ingredients the night before so you don't have to do it in the morning, store in Tupperware or plastic baggy in the fridge)

The Good Morning Smoothie

1/2 cup of yogurt (I prefer Greek yogurt)

1 cup of fresh fruit (I prefer strawberries and bananas)

A splash of milk, almond milk or water (if you're more into the fruity taste, substitute any kind of fruit juice or add more fruit in general along with water)

ICE ICE ICE

Get a blender, throw all of the ingredients in and blend away. I use a miniature blender that just makes one smoothie per use but if you have a larger one, just increase the ingredient portions.

Cucumber Sandwich

1 cucumber

1 can of shredded chicken

Mayo

Pepper

This is such a simple snack that can be prepped and made the night before and last a few days in the fridge for easy eating. Just cut the cucumber into slices about a half an inch thick. Then mix the canned shredded chicken (usually found by the tuna) with the pepper and mayo (as much as your heart desires) then put a small serving on a cucumber slice and put another cucumber slice on the top (like a sandwich) if you want a more in depth chicken salad recipe just Pinterest one.

Tortilla Anything

Tortillas

1 Banana

Peanut Butter

Take a banana, cover it in Peanut Butter and wrap it in a tortilla (its kind of like sushi, but sweet!) Slice it up and make it bite sized. You can really put anything in the tortilla and slice it up but this snack is a quick sweet fix.

FroYo Blueberries

Yogurt (I prefer Greek)

Frozen Blueberries

Just grab a bag of frozen blueberries, roll them around in yogurt and freeze them. Eat them whenever and wherever. You can also use pretty much any other kind of frozen fruit if you don't like blueberries.

Granola Bar

Granola Bar (I like Nature's Valley)

This simple and easy snack comes in a box and is easy for the "on the go" lifestyle. I also like to pair a juice pouch with this snack, I usually get the organic versions of Capri Sun.

Whatever Kabob

Celery

Cherry Tomatoes

Cheese Cubes

Grapes

Get a few skewers and slice up the ingredients. Stick them on the skewers the night before, store them in the fridge then grab one whenever!

Pita Pocket with Sides

Pita Pocket

Turkey

Cheese

Lettuce (I prefer a spring mix)

Celery

Peanut Butter

Raspberries

Chocolate Chips

Grab a pita pocket and shove some sandwich items in it, like turkey, lettuce and tomato. On the side have some cut celery filled with peanut butter along with some raspberries stuffed with chocolate chips. Use these simple sides for any meal to add an extra sweet kick.

Soup or Salad

Soup

Salad (store bought and pre made!!)

Soup or salad is a great lunch for those who don't like to prep. All you do is microwave the soup in a microwave safe bowl or open up the salad pack and give it a stir. (They have all kinds of salads in miniature salad bowls at Walmart and other grocery store, usually in the produce section.)

Sandwich Spice Up

This one is simple, its a sandwich! But if you're tired of just PB&J or turkey and cheese there are ways to spice up your sandwich. Instead of PB&J try PB& Nutella (add some banana for extra pizzazz). Instead of turkey and cheese, add some fresh spring mix or arugula, tomato, avocado, bacon, pepper jack cheese, onion, oil and vinegar, salt and pepper, add basically whatever just make sure you can store it in your fridge.

Ranch Chicken

Chicken breast

Cream of chicken

Ranch dressing dry packet

Drop the chicken and cream of chicken in the pot and let cook for four hours. Then shred chicken (with fork) and add ranch packet to it and mix. You can prep it before class and it will be ready when you're done.

Chicken Italy

Chicken

Italian Dressing

Drop the chicken and the dressing in the pot and cook for four hours. You can grab a pre made salad mix from the produce section and stir that up and enjoy as a side.

Mac N Cheese

Elbow noodles

Coby jack cubes

Pepper

Milk

Throw cooked noodles in the pot then add cheese and milk, season with pepper. Let simmer until cheese is gooey. Stir accordingly as the ingredients mix.

Lettuce Wraps

This meal is simple, all you need is your cooked and shredded chicken from one the recipes above. All you have to do is get a head of lettuce and peel back the leaves. Open them up, add in the chicken and whatever ingredients you typically like in a taco. Instead of a taco shell, its a lettuce shell. It adds a refreashing twsist to an easy meal.

I hope you enjoy these easy meals!

*I am in no way a nutritionist or suggesting certain dietary nutrition, I am simply giving insight on easy meals that are affordable for the average college student.