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Before buying any kitchen set decide whether you are going to stay with seniors or you are going to live in a new apartment with you friends.
• If it’s the former please don’t waste your weight on kitchen set and food. If you r living with seniors they would already be having all stocks for the month.
• If you are planning to stay with your friends in a new apartment then try to break the kitchen set list and share the load with other roommates.


Nearby Restaurants
McDonalds(burgers)
KFC(fried chicken)
Subway(sandwich-veg food available)
Wendy’s(burgers)
Jack in the Box
Taco bell(Mexican fast food-veg food available)
Indian Biryani House
Taste of India

But it would certainly be cheaper and healthier to cook yourself.

Please dont bring any kind of doubtful/pointed stuff like kitchen knives or blades or even butter knives else you will definitely put yourself into trouble before landing yourself on the soil of United States.

Cooking Utensils :
• Non-stick pan (1),
• non-stick tawa (1),
• pressure cooker (5 litre)(get spare gaskets, safety valves and weights)

Others (Prefer Steel):
• spoons,
• cups,
• glasses (3 each),
• a melamine (microwaveable) set (Optional) consisting of plates, soup-bowls and regular bowls (3 each),
• tongs,
• garni (for tea) etc.

Although, you can buy almost all kinds of Indian foodstuff here, get a reasonable quantity of the following, enough to last you for your setup period and save you some money initially.
Condiments and spices :
• garam masala,
• chole masala,
• rasam powder,
• sambhar masala,
• haldi,
• chill powder,
• jeera,
• dhania,
• asafoetida powder.



Others :
• pickles (bring them nicely sealed so that there are no spills)
• papad,


Instant Mixs :
• Sambar,Rasam
• Heat and use instant masala(rajma masala,channa masala etc)
• Mixes which can be used as gravies and used to mix with rice( like bisebella,biryani mix,tomata rice mix,pulliyotharai mix etc)
• Instant noodles and pastas

Bevrages :
• Indian instant coffee + Indian tea (a months stock enough)

Note: Please pack everything to be leak-proof.
DO NOT get any fresh fruits or meat.

Marts:
• Walmart(everything is cheap here compared to other stores…but its quite far off from campus so either u should ask your seniors to drive you there or use university shuttle which operates only on Saturday)
• All gas stations have a small shopping centre, there are 2 gas stations close to the university at walk able distance all emergency purchase can be made here.
• You can also get Indian spices and other Indian food at Dana Bazar and International food house.
Advice:
• Please learn to cook.
• Learn to cook rice and dal at least before you come at the worst case
• Tortillas(very similar to chapattis) are available as instant heat and eat food so you can manage if you know to cook one or two gravies
• Cooking is much easier here since you get cut vegetables, all kinds of paste (ginger, garlic, tomato)
• All Indian food items required for cooking is available here. So don’t load your suitcase only with food stuff.
• Bring cooking utensils only if you are planning to stay in a new apartment with your friends. If you planning to stay with seniors then contact them and then decide what utensils you have to buy.