It will definitely be worth investing in a student cookbook or using a cooking website while you are at university. If you can get into university and pass all your school exams, you can learn to cook and follow a recipe. There are many recipe websites out there; here are just a few of the easier to use ones:

BBC Food - celebrity chefs + recipes from the bbc tv shows

StudentRecipies.com - very basic instructions – quick and easy to use

StudentCook.co.uk – ideas for all the different meals, as well as meals for a £1 and party ideas

OutOfTheFryingPan.com - loads of ideas

Video Jug - step-by-step video guides

StudentCooking.tv - step by step video guides

Cookthink.com - enables users to create meals out of the foods they are craving –you simply enter what you are craving and the site will pull up some ideas.

The Vegetarian Society - recipes for vegetarians, basic instructions

Vegan Yum.Yum – recipe ideas for vegans

Cooking by Numbers - user selects what ingredients they have, and the site brings up suggestions as to what they can make