The Complete Idiot's Guide to the College Diet Cookbook : 150 Quick and Healthful Recipes That Fit Your Lifestyle, Your Appetite—and Your Budget

Now college students can feed their minds—and their bodies! This unique cookbook serves up easy-to-follow, mouth-watering recipes that students can make in record time with just apartment or dorm appliances. Packed with great meals, snacks, and desserts that are quick to prepare and healthy alternatives to restaurants or prepared foods, this indispensable student resource is the most essential bookstore purchase a college student will make. —The only book of its kind that features both recipes and a plan for healthy eating for college students —Most of the recipes can be prepared in less time than it would take to be served at a restaurant or on the meal plan —Recipes tested and approved by students at four major universities —Provides extensive nutritional information • Understanding cooking measurements and how to measure properly• Keeping you and your food safe• Making substitutions when you have to Every cook needs to know the basics of how to handle foods and how to use cooking tools. Plus, he or she needs to know how to do it all safely. Once you learn the fundamentals, you can move on to the pleasure of cooking foods that will satiate. Do your homework, and you can be eatinggreat by dinnertime! 150 recipes for quick and delicious meals, snacks, and desserts; nutritional information--including calorie, carbohydrate, and fat content--for each recipe; quick tips for cooking with electric skillets, microwaves, and other small appliances; easy-to-understand explanations of common cooking terms and techniques