Unbland jacket potatoes with these 12 delicious baked potato fillings.

Baked potatoes make for an easy and cheap student meal with a huge bag of potatoes available for a £1 or even less at the supermarket.

Rub with a little oil or butter, prick with a fork and bake at 200 degrees for 40 or so minutes, or you can cook them in the microwave for 10-15 minutes, turning halfway through.

They’re very boring on their own though so here are twelve super tasty jacket potato filling ideas aside from the classics such as beans and cheese…

Caramelized Onion and Mushroom

A super delicious vegetarian option: Fill your jacket potato with Balsamic Caramelized Onion and Mushroom. And cheese, of course.

Get the full recipe here!

Leftover curry

Make use of your leftovers by adding your curry to accompany and otherwise bland baked jacket potato.

Meatballs

Another utterly trivial one to prepare: Heat up a tin of meatballs and sauce and add on top, with optional extra cheese.

Healthy Chicken salad

Oh chicken salad! You are so tasty! You’re good! To be eaten it’s good. Make it even better by using this yummy Jamie Oliver recipe to top a freshly baked jacket potato.

here!

Apple

For those with a sweet tooth, try an altnerative jacket potato filling with onion, sage and apple.

Get the full recipe here

Tex Mex Chilli

Cook up spicy Tex-Mex Baked Potatoes With Chili with this recipe, using whatever ground meat you wish.

Get the full recipe here!