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Student Tips – Kitchen Etiquette In Shared Accommodation

Student Tips - Kitchen Etiquette In Shared Accommodation

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Living in a shared house really can be fun for lots of reasons&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a fabulous way to make new mates&comma; there are always people around to chat to and independence can be scary when you&&num;8217&semi;re new to it&comma; so sharing the experience with others makes it that bit easier&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Unfortunately&comma; with the good also comes the bad&period; In a situation where people are forced to share a space&comma; issues will always arise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">However&comma; that doesn&&num;8217&semi;t mean it has to be out and out war&comma; there are ways to ensure conflict is minimal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>Fending For Yourself<&sol;b><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">If you come from a family where you are used to your brothers or sisters taking pieces of that lovely cake you baked yesterday&comma; or eating the last bit of butter&comma; you won&&num;8217&semi;t find it too weird when you open the fridge and find someone has nabbed a bit of your food&period; However&comma; this might get annoying if you start to notice it&comma; and others might be highly offended if you do it to them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">With this in mind&comma; it is a great idea to make some rules with the group right at the beginning of moving in together&period; If food is bought together&comma; you have to agree as a group that the food is available to everyone&period; If you buy food for group meals together and food individually&comma; agree on the group meal food being off limits apart from when you are cooking group meals&period; If you are completely shopping individually&comma; agree on each having a shelf in the cupboard or in the fridge&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>Paying For Food Together<&sol;b><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Paying for food together is a cheap way to live and means everyone can pay a set amount per week or month for food for the house&comma; and then everyone eats that food&period; If the same amount of money is in the pot for shopping every week you can create a shopping list together and take turns to order it or collect it&period; However&comma; do bear the following in mind&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>What does everyone eat&quest; Will group shopping cater for everyone&&num;8217&semi;s tastes&comma; allergies or preferences&quest; For example&comma; is it fair for someone with dairy intolerance to pay towards milk and cheese&quest; Will everyone else want to pay towards their milk and cheese alternatives&quest;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Will the shopping include extras&quest; Basics will work well like bread&comma; pasta and milk&comma; but what about luxury items like alcohol or nice chocolate&quest;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>What about if you run out&quest;  It is likely you might run out of certain things in between shops&period; If this is the case&comma; consider having ten pounds or so in the kitty for top-ups and agree who is responsible each week for getting top-ups in<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>What if someone eats more than everyone else&quest; If this is the case&comma; you should have a group chat about it when the issue arises<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>If someone is away&comma; do they still need to contribute&quest; If someone is away&comma; consider agreeing on what to do in regards to contributions<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>Cleaning<&sol;b><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Issues over kitchen cleaning can get really bad&comma; especially when the sink is full of pots or there are no dishes left for people to use&period; Try to create a cleaning rota for the kitchen that works for everyone&period; It could be rotating who cleans the dishes every night&comma; who cooks and who cleans&comma; or that you all take individual responsibility for cleaning your own pots but clean the kitchen together every week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>Cooking<&sol;b><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">One of the great things about being a student&comma; is the fact you meet other people from all walks of life&period; People you would have probably never met if you had never gone to university&period; With this in mind&comma; it would be a shame not to take advantage of everyone&&num;8217&semi;s background and culinary skills&period; Shared cooking can be a really great thing to do in shared accommodation&period; Those that love cooking get to share their skills&comma; those less confident get to improve on theirs&period; And everyone gets to enjoy a varied diet&period; Plus&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a great excuse to sit down together once a week or every evening and socialise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><b>It Is Going To Be Great&excl;<&sol;b><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">It might all seem like rules and regulations&comma; but your student accommodation St Andrews experience is going to be really fun&excl; Just get the planning out of the way and let the partying begin&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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