A guide that takes students through the essential skills, techniques and ingredients they need to make over 160 delicious, healthy meals on a budget and on the go. It includes tips on frugal shopping, diet maintenance, healthy-microwave cooking, hosting dinner parties, and choosing wines and mixing cocktails.

Learn to:

• Stock your kitchen with the bare necessities
• Make healthy and delicious meals on a budget
• Eat well for breakfast, lunch, dinner and in-between
• Entertain a crowd without breaking the bank

Get creative and learn to cook more for less

Cooking with limited utensils, little time and a tight budget needn't be a nightmare! This hands-on guide offers tips and tricks to get the most for your money, as well as over 160 delicious and healthy recipes that are perfect for student life. From quick-fix dinners to crowd-pleasing meals, this is the essential student cooking manual.

• Clue up on cooking basics – stock your cupboards with essential ingredients and make your money go further
• Whip up hassle-free breakfasts, lunches and snacks – whether you like a healthy start or an all-day breakfast, these tasty bites will keep you going
• Master meaty and veggie main courses – feed your brain as well as your stomach and learn to make mouth-watering meals in minutes
• Let me entertain you – host the perfect night in, impress with a full roast dinner and throw a party to remember, without blowing your budget

Open the book and find:

• How to keep your kitchen hygienic
• The best deals at markets, supermarkets and local shops
• The most effective hangover-beating breakfasts
• Quick lunches and energy-boosting snacks for when you're on the go
• How to enjoy effortless microwave cooking
• Foolproof meals to impress a date
• Delicious recipes for healthy and not-so-healthy desserts
• Cheap substitutes for more expensive ingredients

Are you a student who’s fed up with making do with greasy food and monotonous ingredients? A parent who worries about your son or daughter’s mounting tendency to nip to the fast-food van at all times of the day? Then look no further! Taking into account thepressures and stresses of university life – the work, the exams, the parties – this entertaining guide takes students through the essential skills, techniques and ingredients they need to make over 160 delicious, healthy meals on a budget and on the go. Packed with top tips on frugal shopping, diet maintenance and healthy-microwave cooking, as well as the low-down on hosting dinner parties, choosing wines and mixing cocktails, baked-bean-living will become a thing of the past!

Student Cookbook For Dummies includes:

Part 1: Getting Started

• Chapter 1: Saying ‘Hello’ To Your Kitchen
• Chapter 2: Going Shopping
• Chapter 3: Knowing What You’re Eating

Part 2: Breakfast, Lunch & Snacks

• Chapter 4: Bigging up Breakfast
• Chapter 5: Making great Lunches
• Chapter 6: Snacks

Part 3: Bring On The Main Course

• Chapter 7: Cooking For One
• Chapter 8: Eating the Right Food To Get You Going
• Chapter 9: Mastering Microwave Cooking
• Chapter 10: Making the Most of Time and Money
• Chapter 11: Decadent Desserts and Treats

Part 4: Entertaining

• Chapter 12: Lads and Girls Nights’ In
• Chapter 13: Pulling Together a Sunday Roast
• Chapter 14: Food To Impress: Cooking for a Date
• Chapter 15: Getting into the Party Spirit

Part 5: The Part Of Tens

• Chapter 16: Ten Tips For Cooking At Uni
• Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Eat On The Cheap
• Chapter 18: Ten Replacements for Expensive Ingredients