Wow bug! Salad!? well done - you are a better person than me. I would have gone with 'but the lemon glaze is one of my 5 a day!'

don't forget cheese and bread, for cheese on toast, or welsh Rabbit as I like to call it (not rarebit, RABBIT!!!) - when I was little I refused to eat it cos I loved bunnies so much and thought it was cruel lol.

Well I am living with my mother in law - beat that! who regularly accuses me of 'fattening' by husband up by not providing him with freshly cut fruit in the morning.

1) he is a grown man and can cut his own fruit if he wants it!!!!

2) he has lost weight recently!!!! and isn't exactly obese - about half a stone overweight which is falling off due to him actually working now, rather than playing call of duty while pretending to do his PhD!

Have you thought about going part time and possible staying where you are? In my uni, its unlikely that part timers ever come in to the actual building and it would allow to be all responsible and keep the cash coming in for babygrows.

I find the grate technique works in most foods - I often grate the entire vegetable aisle into spaggetti bolognase (sp) and don't notice. Also hearty winter soups all whizzed up are a good way of cramming in five-a day. I also have a strange thing in that I hate cold food, I just can't stand it, so much prefer hot stewed apple, to cold horrible fruit!

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ooh, I tend to make a big lasagne which tends to last at least 3 nights during the week of hubby and I eating! My secret for that is grate carrot and parsnip into the meat sauce - (I hate veg, so its a way of getting my 5 a day in without noticing).



A great thing I have found for 'can't be bothered' nights is this rissotto thing - its mushroom rissotto and comes in a yellow pack, usually near the rest of the proper rissotto rice in the supermarket. You just shove some boiling water on it, and simmer for 12 mins and then its done! - sometimes I add chicken in too cos I do actually hate mushrooms, but again, as long as they are cut up small enough I can cope!



My fav recipe is my mums chicken and bacon mustard casserole (and yes, I hate mustard, but in this I can stand it)



1. fry chopped onion, garlic and mushroom until a lil brown - then pop it in the bottom of a casserole dish



2. Get chicken breasts and wrap with bacon



3. put in a jug:

1 tspn grainy mustard

1 tspn non-grainy mustard

Chicken stock cube (or real stock if you are posh lol)

1 tablespoon of plain flour (or more to thicken)

black pepper

squeeze of lemon juice.



4. Chuck the chicken in the casserole pot, and pour on the liquid (you should have enough liquid to just about cover most of the chicken)



5. Pop in an oven on 200 C or gas mark 6 for about 40 mins



Serve with a stodgy baked potato!

I haven't read all the replies so apologies if this had already been covered. But what is stopping you getting a personal loan out for the remainder. e.g. each getting £15k loan. I know its not ideal, but its probably easier than a mortgage. You could even tyr and get 8K of that from a career development loan which is interest free until you finish your course - and by then you may be able to get a mortgage when they free up the market a bit, so you could then get the 30K on a mortgage and pay off your personal loans.

I am not a financial expert so please don't bite my head (and hat) off, just an idea.

angus - give me my hat back!

It will probably be a toss up between renting somewhere near, and cost of renting. E.g. if your uni is in chelsea, then you prob will have to live further away and travel cos the rent would be way too expensive (unless you want to live in a garage, and then it would still be too much).

I save for a pension - cos I am sad (and also cos I'm lazy and if I save up now, I might be able to quit work when I'm 30, ok more like 55 but hey, you never know!)

You are entitled to holidays, but in my experience noone notices if you are there or not, so I never tell anyone I am going away lol. - depends on your uni though.

London is generally unfriendly, miserable, grey, dirty and smelly - but that's coming from a country bumpkin who has had to move here and hates it!

hmm, tricky. I don't really want to add all the names in. There doesn't seem to be an official guide on this - stupid APA referencing!

Ok so I need to say Smith, Jones and Terry's (2001) paper, but in et al terms do I put

Smith et al's (2001) paper
Smith et als (2001) paper
Smith et al (2001) paper.

Not sure if the et al (and others) paper needs as S or not - very confused!

sounds like you want to delve into networking theory - see Ibarra 1993 and Ibarra 1995, granovetter, Burt 1992 - google scholar these and then also goolge who has cited them, there should be plenty for you! you may want to look for 'social network anaysis' too.

having to move in with your mother in law and her five year old while you try to sell your house.

I definately wouldn't do this until I had published eveyrthing I wanted to get published. Not only will plagarism be a complete pain, but also, if you want to publish your work, some journals may get picky about it being online already. It will also mean that anyone out there can replicate it and get it published before you (because you will be in a post-viva haze).