The Student Cookbook: Easy, cheap recipes for students

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Sharing her mental health journey, author Lauren Lovatt presents a host of plant-based recipes that are creative, informative and most importantly: delicious. By providing practical resources and opportunities for social interaction, we want to ensure that students feel welcomed, supported, and engaged from the very beginning. Luckily, everything in this book is made using just one kitchen staple – the roasting tin – and you can use any size, shape or incarnation of it that you can find.

His latest cookbook contains 80 recipes for takeaway favourites, which can be recreated at home using just five ingredients. All the meals use only five ingredients, take less than 30 minutes to cook and are packed with nutrition and flavour.

Everybody Loves Ramen includes innovative recipes from Stroganoff Ramen Style to Easy Cheezy Ramen to Elvis’s Fav’ Gravy Ramen. These cookbooks make great companions at that time in our lives when we really start to get to grips with cooking. You won’t need lots of kitchen gadgets, hours in front of the stove or a loan to make these recipes – they are all easy and cheap and designed to satisfy.

To save you getting bored of the same old meals, though, Elly shows you how to bring your frozen goods back to life in different ways – aubergine meat-free meatballs, for instance, are served in a wrap, falafel-style; smothered in tomato sauce on pasta, and squashed into a burger patty. Check out our other recommendations for the best cookbooks, including the best baking books, best books for beginners, best Indian cookbooks and best vegetarian cookbooks. From butternut gnocchi to fisherman’s pie and falafel burgers, all the recipes are not only really straight-forward and cost-effective but super tasty!Make sure you have the basics covered: salt, pepper, olive oil and condiments - we love Belazu’s range of pestos that can be added to any dish for an instant burst of flavour.

Motivation can be lacking when it comes to pulling together a whole meal just for one – it’s easy to see why beans on toast is a staple in many student houses. We love the Easy Midweek Meals chapter that includes Wild Mushroom Risotto, Keralan Vegetable Curry and the most heart-warming Thai Sweet Potato Curry. The microwave is a student’s best friend and Mug Meals shows you how to create meals in minutes that rivals those cooked in the oven or on the hob.Create an easily customisable My BBC Good Food cookbook filled with your pick of essential uni recipes. While we love a baked spud as much as the next person and nailed the perfect version during our own student days (rub the skin with olive oil and salt, and unwrap the foil for the last 20 minutes to really crisp up that jacket), we also learned firsthand that you can’t live on carbs and Heinz alone. You won’t find any cans of soup or baked beans here; this is hearty cooking but in a simple and easy to follow way (the photographs are a BIG help). Even the most fresh-faced of culinary novices can go from zero to hero in the kitchen with the right guide and a decent recipe. We have published a new cookies policy, which you should read to find out more about the cookies we use.

If you’re looking for a quick lunch try the bowls and salad sections that are healthy and delicious. If you find cooking to be a chore, especially after a hard day in the lecture hall, master the art of batch cooking with Freeze.

You might think that dinner’s sorted if you have a packet of instant noodles in the cupboard but sometimes you crave a proper home-cooked meal without needing a degree in cookery! York St John University is pleased to launch the YSJ Student Cookbook, created by students for students. Packed full of colourful vegetarian and vegan dishes inspired by regions throughout Asia, this eye-opening book will inject some meat-free fun into any student kitchen.