Alright, if you know me or have spent any amount of time with me, you're probably aware of the fact that I have a snacking problem. I love to eat. I am constantly picking up new treats and looking up new recipes to satisfy my itch to eat. Being a broke-as-a-joke college kid, it's hard to find the time and the money to keep your kitchen stocked with food that's easy enough to make, and doesn't take your entire night to prepare.

For the past two years, I've been trialing countless recipes in search for the perfect snacks to satisfy any midnight-munchie craving. Though there are a lot of worthy foods out there, there's nothing more reliable and more delicious than a classic grilled cheese sandwich. With only three necessary ingredients, a grilled cheese sandwich is my favorite go-to when I can't find anything else to eat.

I start with two pieces of plain white bread. I know what you're thinking: "Zoë, white bread?! Are you insane?! What about gluten?! This is anarchy!!!" To that I will say, I do not care. I love bread, I don't feel bad about it, and you can't make me! There's such a big fuss these days over carbs and gluten and what you should and shouldn't be eating. Personally, I think life's too short to not eat the bread.

I then butter the inside of the bread. This is a very crucial step. Always butter the inside. It'll help give the cheese a melty, soft texture when the time comes. It's important to use soft butter in this process, so I usually microwave a stick of butter still wrapped in its paper for 12-second intervals until its soft enough to spread.

By the way, if you're using the big tubs of imitation butter, that looks like butter, smells like butter, but doesn't quite taste like butter, you should know that it's not actually butter. Real butter is derived from animal fat and comes in the stick form. If the first ingredient of your "butter" starts with vegetable oil, then it's not butter, it's just solidified vegetable oil. Yes, the fake butter might be better for you technically, but the flavor is not even comparable to the real thing. I guess you could call me a butter snob. Oh well.

Once the insides of your bread are nice and buttered, go ahead and unwrap a slice of American cheese. That's the kind that comes individually wrapped in pieces of plastic. Yeah, they're probably not environmentally friendly and probably not even 100% cheese but they taste like my childhood and they're pretty cheap so I'm going to keep buying them.

Place the cheese between the buttered pieces of bread and then melt some more butter in a pan with the heat on high. Once the pan is sizzling hot and the butter is melted down, set the sandwich in the pan on top of the melted butter. Then take your spatula and press the sandwich flatter in the pan, and flatten it down well. This will make the sandwich absorb the butter and fry nice and evenly.

Once you've let the sandwich sit and fry on that side for a little bit (1-2 minutes), flip it over and then put another piece of butter in the pan for that bare side of bread. Repeat the pressing motion. By now you've probably realized this grilled cheese probably doesn't fit neatly in your diet plan but that's what cheat days are for am I right? The already-fried side should be golden-brown and crispy. Once you feel like the second side has been frying for long enough, flip it back over to ensure that both sides are cooked to your desired crispiness.

If you're feeling fancy, you can crack open a can of tomato soup to dip your sandwich in. If not, you just made a deliciously satisfying treat that will without a doubt hit the spot every single time. With the ingredients costing less than 10 dollars, they're also versatile enough for you to make dozens of other concoctions with! You just have to be creative, and not have a fear of gluten or fat.