Student Cookbook For Dummies

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