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My brother is leaving in 2 weeks for college in Boston. As his food loving older sister, I'd like to get him a healthy cookbook aimed at college students with a kitchenette. Any suggestions?

The Healthy College Cookbook: Quick. Cheap. Easy.

That is one that I would check out.


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Yes. Weat spaggetti, and Frys Food has some good deals on frozen bagged vegetables. I like to acquire vast quantities of corn, fiesta style veggies, peas and Chinese veggies (I don't have the names memorized but they're from Kroger Garden Blend and they're on sale right now I think). I found a fairly good deal on speggetti sauces from Newmans at Safeway recently too, although I can't say that the sausage and vegetable blend is the healthiest... but there are plenty of others that are good (ALWAYS buy sale and make sure that you go by the product that has the smallest price/product amount ratio... they list them (sometime erroneously) for your convience!)

You can mix up speggetti sauces and vegetables in various combos for some variety, but yeah... it does get old after a while. But the good news is that one can acquire this stuff relatively cheap and it doesn't taste bad (Plus there is a lot of it when you cook it up). Often times if I'm comparing the healthy alternatives offered outside my residence to what I can cook up with this stuff I find that I'd much rather eat this. Its hard for resteraunts to compete to a well designed home-cooked meal unless they use the addiction of greese... yum... laaaaaard... (Yeah I brake the rules too... and it just got more difficult, we have an all you can eat place at NAU that (today at least) met the standards of Las Vegas all you can eats... this place was huge and it only cost me seven something, that's about the price of a combo meal at many a fast food joint...)

NOTE: Just to give a comparison, it would cost me roughly 25-40 dollars a week on groceries here, and I've found that if I put a backpack on and carry a bag in each hand, I can get home four to five bags of groceries in one single bike trip (Probobly closer to 4 instead of five though). If you live near the store and the school eliminating a car eliminates a HUGE expense, at least for me.

Bikes have no insurance, no gas, no repairs, no parking permit charges... they don't really cost anything ! HURRAY FOR BIKES! DOWN WITH THE AUTO INDUSTRY!!! OUR GENERATION WILL TEACH 'EM FOR RAISING OUR PARENTS GAS PRICES!!!! MWAH HA HA HA!!!

I have the Sunset Microwave Cook Book: Tips & Techniques --Over 200 recipes.
I'm not sure if it's still in print --its copyright is from 1981 (found it at my mom's house). It has some amazing-looking recipes in it (I haven't used it yet --I'm on a meal plan during the school year --and on limited funds).

This summer (since there's no meal plan), I've mostly bought the cheap and unhealthy stuff from the store and tried to get some healthy things --macaroni and cheese, tuna, Miracle Whip, Turkey lunchmeat, whole wheat bread, Ramen, Tyson Chicken nuggets --mostly because I'm too lazy to whip up a high quality meal in the microwave. It just takes a lot of work --and I don't have enough money to buy all the ingredients needed for one meal --the ingredients themselves are relatively inexpensive, but put them together at several meals a week and the cost is too much. Hence the cheap and not so healthy food (though I do buy canned green beans/Baked beans and eat a bowl of that for a meal --fresh vegetables don't keep very long around here --I tend to forget I bought them...). (Man, I miss having a stove! I want some baked tilapia!)

I am really looking forward to the meal plan kicking in again in a few weeks. Our cafeteria is actually not that bad --I can get a nice salad with spinach leaves and baked fish/chicken and fresh fruit --but they also have Blue Bell ice cream (a real temptation for me --especially Mocha Almond Fudge )--so they have both the good and bad.

As I said, my brother's going to live in Boston, which has an extensive subway system and bike trails--car expenses will not be an issue. Also, his school has a food allowance which is more than enough for groceries, so cost isn't so much an issue either. I was really just looking for a nice collection of recipes to help him out.

The best all-around cookbook I can think of for him is the paperback version of The Fannie Farmer cookbook. It's got a lot of recipes plus a few guides on foods and preparation methods.

Technomancer (post: 1250688) wrote:The best all-around cookbook I can think of for him is the paperback version of The Fannie Farmer cookbook. It's got a lot of recipes plus a few guides on foods and preparation methods.

YES!! I forgot about that one! My roommate had a copy back when we lived in an apartment --and it was so helpful! It helped me cook rice (a task I do not excel at) and know how long to boil eggs.
Definitely get that one. It's amazing!