If you have some great takeaway recipes up your sleeve though, there’s no need to spend next week’s bus pass budget at the local curry house.

Weaving down supermarket aisles, packed with parents filling up trollies for their bewildered-looking teens, can be overwhelming, but this is your chance to set yourself up for cookery greatness. We think it’s especially important to highlight real-life issues that many students face today, by bringing you on our YSJ cookbook journey. In this nifty book, the name of Mr O’s game is keeping things simple, with just five ingredients per recipe. Alongside the recipes are personal food stories and self-help resources designed to help students survive and thrive in their kitchens as they find their feet with university life. These happily achievable recipes won’t just come in handy for dinnertime, but for serving up at parties, nibbling on with a study group, satisfying morning-after cravings and generally making you a popular housemate.Consider investing in kitchen appliances that will help you along your culinary journey - an airfryer is perfect for healthy alternatives to fried food, whilst a Nutribullet allows for quick smoothies (great for getting your five-a-day in).

Whether you’re short on knowledge, cash or inclination, there are some great student cookbooks out there that you’d do well to add to your reading list – and dare we say will get a lot more use than the books your tutors have requested you pick up. Dr Elodie Duché, Senior Lecturer: Modern History and part of the Living Lab team said: "The YSJ Student Cookbook is an extraordinary testament to the resilience and creativity of our student community. His latest cookbook contains 80 recipes for takeaway favourites, which can be recreated at home using just five ingredients. Alongside recipes, you’ll find tons of advice about student living, advice on how to budget and save money as well as some top tips from those who have been there, done that and got the stained apron. Harry has created thoughtful, indulgent new incarnations of beloved bakes – think Victoria sponge and chocolate brownies – and come up with some novel treats, too.By offering the YSJ Student Cookbook to new students in our accommodation, we hope to encourage them to explore the joys of cooking, share meals, and build relationships that will enrich their university experience. We love the smoky chorizo BBQ beans for a satisfying 10-minute brunch, while the oven does all the hard work in creating the sticky soy and honey-glazed aubergine.