Five Things You Need In Your Student Kitchen

This blog post is not about boring kitchen essentials like a baking tray, a saucepan and a wooden spoon. This is about things in your kitchen that will bring you joy and encourage you to cook because you want to use them (and will make great Instagram photos!!) If you're interested in being excited to use the things in your kitchen cupboards at uni instead of having 'cup a soup', this blog post is for you!! <3

1. A cute mug!
If you buy yourself a mug that with a cool design that you really love, you'll want to drink tea or coffee out of it all day. If you don't drink hot drinks then grab yourself an adorable mason jar glass that you can drink water, squash, juice or whatever you like out of. if you're like me, you'll buy both. I'm obsessed with buying things for my room and kitchen that make me happy. You'll never be too lazy to get a drink and you'll keep yourself super hydrated.

 Not on the High Street glass mason jar with straw £8

Urban Outfitters mug £6.30























2. Chopping board
A white chopping board is so boring! It's definitely not asking you to use it to chop up vegetables and make a delicious home cooked meal. If you get a chopping board that looks really nice you can leave it on the work surface in your kitchen when it's clean and it will look so good. You'll see it every time you go into the kitchen and you'll want to use it.


The Rustic Dish heart shaped chopping board £12.99

similar >>> Wilko heart shaped chopping board £4

Not on the High Street marble chopping board £28

















3. Soup bowl
I was gifted a soup bowl before I came to university. It encourages me to make my own soup but I also love to eat Heinz tomato soup out of it too. In the autumn and winter it's so lovely to have one of these, it's really warming. And because it's made for soup, you can fit a full soup portion in and you're not trying to fit it in a mug and spilling it everywhere and waiting for it to cool until you can just drink it.

Lakeland blue soup mug £6.99


















4. Salt and pepper shakers
I've found that not many people in university halls have salt and pepper shakers. They tend to just keep them in the packaging they came in but that's an absolute nightmare because you can't control how much comes out and they often end up with a very salty dinner. I have salt and pepper shakers that I keep on the side because I always need them when I'm cooking and they're so handy to reach and they look super cute on the side (next to my chopping board and olive oil) so I don't mind.

John Lewis watering can salt and pepper shaker set £30

Etsy mason jar salt and pepper shakers £5.27











5. Pop tarts!
I buy my pop tarts from an American candy shop because they're soooo much nicer than the ones in the supermarket. They have loads of different flavours like cookie dough, s'mores, birthday cake and plenty of others. All students need pop tarts in their cupboard because we all know that they don't get up early enough for a proper breakfast, they're so quick and delicious on your way to a lecture or the perfect snack to get you through to lunch when you've woken up late and a proper breakfast is going to be too much and through your eating off for the whole day.

The American Candy Store Kellogg's S'Mores Pop Tarts £3.30

My Top Five Series Picks On Netflix

We all know that everyone and their mother is obsessed with Netflix. I love Crime TV Dramas that really grip you so that you have to watch the next episode so that's mostly what's on my list. If you're ready to binge watch a new and dramatic TV series, here are my top picks.

1. How to Get Away With Murder

There are two seasons of this show on Netflix however, the third season has aired on TV in America and a fourth season has been confirmed. I have never been hooked on a show as quickly as I was when I started watching this. I watched it for 10 minutes and then I couldn't stop. Viola Davis stars in this show playing a law professor who becomes involved in a murder along with 5 of her criminal law students. The thing I really love about this show and that really got me hooked is that each season begins with a crime scene and each episode reveals more
about what has happened and how it has got to
that point. I am so excited for what's coming next.

                                                                                    2. 13 Reasons Why

This show is a Netflix original that I'm sure almost everyone has heard of. Its first season came out at the end of March and it has literally been the most talked about series since. This is a story about a girl at school called Hannah Baker who took her own life. Previous to her death, she recorded 13 tapes, on each tape is a person who has pushed her towards taking her own life. This is such a hard and emotional watch but I think that it's amazing for a TV series to confront mental health issues and the struggles of teenagers in this way. Clay is such an amazing character and I wish he was my friend. In the final episode of the series (the 13th obviously), Selena's beautiful cover of 'Only You' features and it almost brought me to tears. If you haven't already caved in after seeing 13 Reasons Why all over your social media, I think that this show is really important and you should definitely watch it if you're comfortable with its content. Be aware that it can be very graphic and possibly trigger those who struggle with mental health issues.

3. Pretty Little Liars

I have watched this show for years and I feel like I have watched all these characters grow so I couldn't not have this in my top five. This show is currently in its seventh and final series and I don't want it to finish. In season 1, we find out that Alison has been missing for over a year and her four friends start receiving texts from 'A'. We're on series 7 and we still don't know who 'A' is!!!!

4. Dexter
This show is an old favourite that finished in 2013. There are 8 seasons so if you decide to watch this, you have to be committed. This is the life of Dexter Morgan played by Michael C. Hall. He is a blood spatter analyst for Miami Metro PD but he is also a serial killer who only kills criminals. At times, this proves to be difficult as Dexter faces challenges throughout the whole series. If you love to watch crime shows, you have to watch this. It's full of twists and turns and endearing characters.

                                                                                    5. Orange is the New Black

This is also a Netflix original with 4 seasons on Netflix and a 5th one coming out in June. I've recently rewatched the whole series before watching the fourth season and it didn't take too long. In season 1, Piper Chapman has to abandon her fiance and go to a low-security women's prison as a sentence for carrying drugs through an airport 10 years ago. There she is reunited with her girlfriend and throughout the series, we learn about the previous life of each character and why they are there. This series is dramatic at times, emotional and funny. In my opinion, the fourth season is the best season to date and now I would recommend watching it.

Honourable mentions that didn't make it into my top five: American Horror Story and The People v. OJ Simpson.

Happy binge watching on Netflix!