Back in the day... in my first year at Uni, many of my fellow students would have their parents send them off with a huge supplies of essential foods - pasta, backed beans etc and would boost their supply as and when. Sadly I can't provide much personal advice as I attended a London Uni and chose not to live on campus or anywhere else except home (mainly due to lack of funds, and didn't want to burden myself with a student loan). Deffo encourage your sprog to get an easy part time job to help when the money gets low tho. :))