"For me, as a student, it's important that the cookbook contains meals that were quick and easy to make with non-fancy, everyday ingredients, without being too bog-standard (e.g. beans on toast). I got stuck in a rut making the same few meals over and over again, even though I had several cookbooks with hundreds of recipes in them. There's always that one technique or that one ingredient that holds me back. Or the recipes are too time-consuming.

Somehow I found this book and it is perfect!

The Vegetarian student cookbook concept: quick plant-based meals that fuel your body, cheaply, and easily and with very little equipment and a few common ingredients but ones which give the meal a lot of flavour (to make up for the fast cooking time, which can cause food to be bland).

What makes this different from other student cookbooks? This book sticks to the basics but is never bland or boring. It strikes a perfect balance between quick but healthy, easy but tasty; The recipes also make repeated use of many common store cupboard ingredients so you can build up a useful but small stock of items that you will keep using, not buy lots of things once for one recipe and find you don't use it for anything else.

The information included in the book about how to make your own vegetarian-student pantry and 3-Week Simple Vegetarian Meal Plan etc. is superb. It's clear and reassuring. It's warm, and written in a friendly manner. "

--Lauren Farrell, student