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A fantastic book for students who may be adjusting to leaving home for the first time and having to cope with feeding themselves!

Provides an equipment and utensil list, store cupboard essentials, how to prepare vegetables, how to read food labels, kitchen hygiene (!)  and menu planners.

All this and over 200 quick, cheap and tasty vegetarian recipes, from brilliant breakfasts, cheap easy meals for mates to lunch on the move and brain food  for those late night revision sessions! A super university companion.

This book is packed with essential up to date advice on healthy eating, feeding fussy eaters, dealing with an overweight child, and plenty of tips for no-hassle meals, quick snacks and lunch boxes, including brand new colour photographs of the recipes.

Children who enjoy a healthy, varied diet are more likely to be full of energy, feel brighter and more alert, suffer fewer colds and illnesses, and concentrate better at school.

But healthy eating doesn't have to mean boring meals. It's all about making nutritious food appealing and fun for kids - and appearance counts as much as taste!

Tested by parents and tasted by children, Anita's recipes will give you new ideas and inspiration on what to feed your kids.

Aimed at children from primary school age and the adults in their life, this book provides simple recipes which are easy to guide children through in preparing everything from lunch boxes and snacks to full family dinners.

“Cooking with kids will help you show your children how to cook good food, how to appreciate it and, above all, that cooking is fun!”

Suitable for children age 9 and above, this book provides children with wonderful recipes following the key ingredients from their source to the table.

Cleverly divided into produce from the sea, from the dairy, from the farm, from the mill, from the garden and from afar, Amanda Grant encourages children be inquisitive about the produce sources as well as encouraging children to learn cooking skills such as breading fish, roasting vegetables and making batter.

This is a great reference book for children to return to again and again.

A budget cookbook providing hassle free recipes for students. This handbook provides an extensive guide to shopping and choosing meat and vegetables as well as information about hygiene and food storage in a compact easily readable form.

The recipes are simple to follow and provide tips for time saving and storage in the freezer and fridge after cooking.

“The perfect stocking present for any student who can’t cook and has blown a year’s allowance on one term’s fast food.”                                                   
                                                                      Elfreda Pownall, The Spectator.

A wonderful selection of over 200 recipes with a quick glance guide at the head of each page to the nature of the meal (vegetarian etc) as well as the cost,  preparation and cooking time for easy use.

The pages are filled with excellent cooking tips and anecdotes along with a comprehensive guide to kitchen utensils, herbs and spices as well as a chapter even on how not to poison your friends.

‘Lively, vibrant and accessible. It radiates a greats sense of fun and does all this on a budget. What more could a student want?’                                                           Heston Blumenthal.