Emily is Smiling

When I go to college, not only will I eat in the cafeteria, but I'll also have a kitchen to share with a few other girls.  I went ahead and bought a few things I'll need ahead of time.  Here's what I chose to purchase.  I'll be sure to share links and prices with everyone.

I'm a smoothie fanatic.  I love ice cream, fro-yo, and pretty much anything cold and sweet, so smoothies are also something I love.  At my house, we have a giant blender and we make fruit smoothies all the time.  Since I do NOT want to gain the typical "freshman fifteen," fruit smoothies will be a healthy snack while I'm at college.

Obviously, I needed a small, easy to store blender.  At Kohl's, Target, and Bed Bath & Beyond, the prices seemed to be fairly identical.  Bed Bath & Beyond was perhaps the most expensive.  The neatest-looking blender I saw was called the Magic Bullet.  It was little and snazzy and came with several different portable cups that you could carry around with your smoothie.  Perfect, right?  Unfortunately, wherever I went, it was priced from $50-65... wayyy out of my college student price range.  I also found a tiny blender for $15.99, but it looked too poorly made to even work right.

I decided to go with the Oster Personal Blender.  I found it at Target for $29.99.  You can get it here for the same price.  What I love about this blender is that it becomes a water bottle with a lid and everything so you can make your smoothie and take it with you wherever you go.  The perfect breakfast.  The Oster blender comes in several different colors, but the light blue was my personal favorite.  Super cute.  I love this and cannot wait to use it all the time in college.

I found a great deal on a kitchen set at Target.  Unfortunately, I couldn't find the set on the Target website, but I'm sure you can find something very similar at the store.  For about $19.99, I got a thirty piece set of all sorts of cooking utensils, while I was looking at individual utensils for a few dollars each.

Even better, all of these utensils come in black and white, my favorite colors!  Yes, you can get adorable lime green and bright pink rubber utensils from Target and Bed Bath & Beyond, but this set is only twenty dollars and it comes with SO much.  See the list for yourself.  If you're moving or need to replace some of your kitchen utensils, this may be a great find.

Finally, I'd like to share how much I love making quesadillas.  I love Mexican food.  (You can tell I live in Texas, can't you?)  I can make quesadillas with veggies, chicken, and a couple of tortillas.  They're a frequent quick lunch at my house.  I use a George Foreman Grill, but I couldn't afford one of those to take to college.  I instead found something aimed more specifically at making quesadillas. 

I found the El Paso Chile Company Quesadilla Maker at both Bed Bath & Beyond and Target.  At Bed Bath & Beyond, it was $19.99.  At Target, it was $17.99.  It's about half the size or less of the George Foreman, which is nice for my small living space, and it's a bright and cheery red color.  You can find it online here.

These were my finds.  I recommend all three items.  Enjoy your smoothies and quesadillas. ;)