Supermarket giant Morrisons claims that the average weekly food budget for a student is approximately £21 (from a poll of 1,000 students). With this in mind and the fact that most 16-24 year olds do not want to spend more than 35 minutes from start to finish on cooking, here are a few recipe sites that provide cheap, time-efficient examples for you to try.

• Sam Stern (the teenage chef) recipes and tips on cooking click here
• For student recipes, recipe videos and Grub Club packs click here to check out the BBC Grub Club website.
• Leftover Recipes [click here].
• For beginner student recipes, meals for one ideas etc click here.
• For quick, cheap, British dishes from BBC Good Food [click here]
• Jamie Oliver's budget meals click here.
• Cheap meal ideas for British Classics [click here].
• Student recipe ideas click here.
• For tasty, easy to follow and healthy recipes from the DCSF's Real Meal Cookbook click here
• For picnic recipes that feed approximately 8 people for less than £25 click here
• delicious. magazine is on a mission to get teenagers cooking and, with top chef Alan Murchison, has devised five recipes to entice youngsters into the kitchen. Click here for recipes and tips that will give essential skills for life.
• A great cookbook with a huge variety of recipes that are simple, delicious and importantly, because they only use three or four ingredients, cheap! [click here].

A final tip: to make simple gravy - melt a tablespoon of butter, stir in a tablespoon of plain flour and stir in a teaspoon of marmite, bring to the boil and presto!