It's easy to be creative when you have kidney beans, pinto beans, black beans, lima beans, black-eyed peas, garbanzo beans (chickpeas), split peas and lentils in your pantry. Take advantage of their various shapes, sizes and colors when planning meals.
During an essay test, usually one or two paragraphs will answer short essay questions. For big essay tests, where there is only 1 question for a whole hour-long test, you will be expected to compose an entire essay. In that case, write 5 paragraphs including all the parts of a composition of between 1-2 written pages.
When I was in law school, the average length was 2,000 words for most essays and 3,000 for end-of-module papers. As you can imagine, there is a premium in law for being concise and on-point -- the idea that the lawyer is getting paid to solve the client's legal problems AND most court hearings give only 3 minutes each round of speaking to each side.