My little sister moves into college this weekend. Being the amazing, ambitious older sister I am, I had the great idea to write her an e-book full of healthy, delicious foods she could make in a microwave (or other appliances you can have in a dorm). And then, in order to fully show off the skills I learned in college, I procrastinated all summer long and never actually got around to doing it. Fortunately for me, there’s no due date for nice gestures. Instead, I’ll post the handful of recipes I have here and hopefully she’ll find enough food not to starve to death.
First up, microwave nacho cheese. I didn’t know this easy vegan nacho cheese could get any easier, but apparently it can! Even better, you can make a big batch of the mix so you have vegan cheese sauce almost instantly whenever you want it. Perfect for a college student — steal the seasonings and flour from your parents house when you’re home doing laundry and bring it back to your dorm for a tasty time later.
This cheese sauce is great for dipping tortilla chips, making nachos, topping tacos (also vegan and made in the microwave), drizzling over microwave-baked potatoes, or scrambled microwave eggs. If you have access to more than just a microwave, this recipe also perfectly swaps for the easy vegan cheese sauce in any of my other recipes using it, like these vegan enchiladas, vegan Ranch potato burritos, and beefy avocado quesadillas.
New to nutritional yeast and don’t want to commit to a whole big batch of mix? Add an extra tbsp. of flour to this recipe and microwave in 30 second increments (stirring between each) for 2 – 3 minutes, until desired consistency is met. That recipe makes about a cup.
Any suggestions on healthy dorm snacks or other college survival tips? Leave `em for my sister (and other college freshmen) in the comments!
Tagged with: Dairy Free • Easy • Egg Free • Microwave • Nut Free • Soy Free • Vegan • Vegetarian
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What?! This looks so easy. Can’t wait to try!
Simply cannot wait to make this recipe and just shared it on my blog in my Friday Foodie Faves post where I link up 10 of my favorite recipes finds from around the web.
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Love it! This is so easy, and sounds so delicious. Gotta try it 🙂
Let me know how you like it! Sometimes, you’re just too lazy to stand over a stove 😀
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This sounds so easy and it is nice to know there are no preservatives in your nacho cheese sauce! Pinning!
haha I always have all these great ideas and then they just never end up happening! But hey – even this one recipe looks awesome! So creamy!
I can’t believe how creamy this looks! Such a great recipe! I don’t think there’s anything nutritional yeast can’t do!
You better believe I will most definitely be trying this one out! I LOVE how easy it sounds 🙂
I think our nutritional yeast consumption has been growing at an exponential rate since I first made this a couple of months ago. Seriously, SO easy to make a quick batch of cheese sauce when the mix is already ready and waiting in a mason jar. We’ve been topping everything with it and I’m definitely not complaining about that 😉
Hi Kelly, what a nice big sister you are, love this idea of vegan nacho cheese.
Thanks, Cheri!
I’m going to point my sister in your direction because she just started college also! I think with this cheese sauce…she’ll be making quite a few friends in her dorm!
Aren’t you just a little bit jealous? I guess you’re still wrapping up school, but I’d love to be back at 18 again!
Haha, this looks delicious, but my favorite part is “stealing the seasonings and flour from your parents while home doing laundry.” Been there, done that 😉