This cookbook had some fun recipes for 1-2 people and then some for like a group. There are quite a few that I want to try and a lot that I have to avoid for my sons food allergies. Towards the back of the book there was a two page spread that was upside down. Not sure if it was my download or its in all of them and needs to be corrected. I liked that there were pictures for a lot of the recipes and a large variety/sections listed in the cookbook. The citrus spice truffles, creamy chicken ramen, and taco stuffed sweet potatoes are high on my list of recipes to try from this.

I rated the cookbook based on how it works for my family, not the recipes themselves. The book for me doesn't work 100% but for others it will be five stars for sure.

There are some great recipes in here, and I love how the whole book is layed out. It is bright and happy, and I really liked the way notes were added to it.
But... this being a book aimed at students I had hoped it would have cheap and accessible ingredients. And sure, me not living in the US (nor in a big/green town) plays into the issue in a way that is not the books fault. But over half of the recipes contained ingredients that I just don't have acces to (think of liquid smoke, protein powder, nutritional yeast, miso paste, different kinds of meat replacement such as smoked tofu, 'prawns', 'chicken' broth, and 'beef' that isn't minced) or are extremely expansive (such as nut butters and 'cheese'). And then there is the equipment needed such as a good blender (mine really cannot handles cashews, and soup will just end up splattered on the walls) and a spiralizer....
So yeah, although this has some great content, for me personally the majority of it is too much hassle/expansive to be bare the title 'student friendly'.

I'm not a vegan but I am on a mission to reduce my meat intake and enjoy eating vegan meals. I was intrigued by this cookbook, with the idea that recipes based at students would probably be quite speedy. It certainly has a wide range of recipes and seemingly the ingredients base around core supplies - handy for if you've got limited kitchen space or for ensuring you don't end up with lots of empty packets with tiny bits used!

As a British reader, I found the recipes a bit confusing; they're clearly written for the American market (there's a list of handy conversions at the front) and this means that some unfamiliar ingredients do put me off. Some of the recipes are quite 'step heavy' but there is a list of 'must have' equipment at the start of the book which means there's nothing that should come as a surprise!


This is probably a great book for established vegans who might be more knowledgeable about some of the substitutions and processes that are listed in this book - as someone trying to cut back, I found them. little over complicated.

The Student Vegan Cookbook is a collection of simple, healthy and mainly affordable recipes for anyone looking to eat plant based food on a budget. It is a book for everyone not just for students. The biggest bonus is that there is a delicious colour photograph for every recipe. I loved the way the ingredient lists were pretty short and for the most part basic. There are some that use an ingredient or two that is a bit pricey or more difficult to source, but overall they are easy on the pocket and easy to find.

Plenty of additional advice and information is included such as a page of conversion tables and details of key vegan ingredients. The recipes are varied, and the layout and photography are excellent. It is a great book for anyone just starting out on the vegan or plant based cooking route.

Absolutely love this book. I'll be trying out some of the recipes for my family and buying a copy for my son to take with him to university.
If you are trying to have a couple of meat-free days as a family, there are some great ideas for pasta and main courses plus some cool breakfast treats.
For a student, it strikes the balance between having interesting, cool recipes but not having loads of weird ingredients to hunt the supermarkets for if you're a student in a fairly traditional town or city. There is also a strong emphasis on store cupboard ingredients so donations of these can be made by parents and carers at the beginning of term.
The author promises cheap, fast, easy and super-healthy and she delivers on all four.

I made a couple of the recipes and I really enjoyed the pesto pasta one! My sister as well. The cookbook is really nice for basic 'student' recipes.

I loved this cover and was excited about there being 85 fast and easy plant based recipes. 8 chapters of yummy! Included is breakfast, dips, spreads, snacks, noodles, soup, sandwich and bowl-in-one meals.
There are helpful basic staples “ideas”with a ingredients glossary. I found this part super helpful. It’s a lot to take in when starting this plant based journey and this part is essential. Furthermore are all the kitchen essentials you’ll need and a quick “how to do stuff” intro before starting this and conversion and equivalent tables.
Everything looked easy enough and I especially loved the breakfast and soup recipes. I would not only recommend this for college students but also anyone getting into plant based eating. Very helpful. The only thing this doesn’t have is calories per serving which to me isn’t a big of deal. I hope this was helpful.
Thanks Harvard Common Press via Netgalley.

If you ever lived with me for a longer period of time, you know that I never know what to cook. Literally ever. I'm not vegan nor vegetarian but I would like to try to decrease my meat consumption. This cookbook feels like the perfect solution. Not only does it have loads of fairly easy recipes, but also the list of essential cooking supplies, an ingredient glossary, life lessons regarding cooking, and most importantly (and most usefully in my opinion) a couple of tables of measurement conversations: US to metric and vice-versa but also others.

However, this truly is a student's cookbook so don't go looking for a recipe for a big Sunday lunch.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC. I'm planning to use it for a long time.

I'm not a student or a vegan, but I always try to find easy simple ways to make healthy meals. I found the Ingredient Glossary information in this book to be extremely helpful. I liked all the tips given, especially for multiple uses for items; an example being a vanilla bean. Uses were given for the inside of the vanilla bean as well as the outside, eliminating waste and getting your full money's worth. I had no idea that sprinkles were coated in confectioner's glaze (aka mashed up insects)!

Tips were given on what kitchen tools work best for a college student living in a dorm in the Essential School Supplies section. The Life Lessons section was great too. I loved the simple stuff like how to bake a potato, cook pasta, and melt chocolate. I think college students would find these sections very helpful.

As far as the actual recipes go, not many appealed to me visually. None of them left me feeling like I couldn't wait to make them. I didn't feel the recipes were cheap, fast, and easy as the title claims. I felt there were a few too many ingredients for student living and they seemed a little complicated to me and I'm not sure how many students would have the time to make many of these recipes.

This is a colourful guide to a varied amount of vegan recipes. Lots of savory and some.sweet. the recipes are easy to follow with bright colours and lovely pictures. I do wonder if some of the ingredients are a little expensive for a university student but overall a great cookbook

The recipes in here are pretty lovely. I was very happy with the introduction, with very basic tips for people who are cooking for themselves for the first time. The recipes are usually easy and quick, but at times not inexpensive. It's a book that would work fine for an American student, I presume, but not so much for an international audience who doesn't find some of the ingredients that easily or that cheap. Having said that, I took some very nice recipes from here and I'm very excited to try them out.

I received a copy of this bopk from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The book idea was good, because many students don't really know how to cook and this is a great way to introduce them to cooking. I liked the recipes and I think they are varied, but I honestly don’t see myself reaching for most of them. Also, my copy had an upside down page, which I am guessing was not made on purpose.

I liked that there were little post-it notes with further explanations, and I think the list of essential supplies and ingredient glossary from the beginning of the book can be very useful, as well as the conversion tables.

Also, the author has a food blog and you can find her at bittersweetblog.com

As a vegan, and quite recently a student, I feel quite well-placed to review this cookery book. Overall, it's a good one. It's well presented with pictures, and well organised into sections by type of dish, eg breakfast, snacks, pasta dishes etc. There are a good mix of classic recipes (eg sweetcorn chowder) and more interesting and different recipes so while this is aimed at students, I think a lot of older and more experienced cooks would still find some new ideas here. My only criticism is that perhaps some of the ingredients are just a bit too different and expensive for students to be buying (although there are quite often substitutions for the harder-to-find items which I really appreciate!). I've bookmarked a few recipes to try out which sound really interesting. So to conclude, a good recipe book, but perhaps not one for complete beginners due to some more 'out there' recipes and some slightly unusual ingredients.

I received a copy of this cookbook from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a wonderful cookbook. It's filled with interesting recipes that would all be easy to make!

I am not a student, however I do enjoy student cookbooks as they are generally filled with very simple & cheap recipes (the subtitle for this cookbook even states that these recipes are cheap, fast, easy, and super healthy). This book has a lot of very tasty sounding recipes, and I love the fact that there are photos for every single recipe as I think that is so important for a cookbook. I even love that there are a couple recipes the author flat out calls ugly (basically a plate of brown food) - she acknowledges that home cooking might not always be pretty but it’s still going to taste good.

Unfortunately, I feel that this cookbook is a bit misleading. If you’re a college student living in a dorm I simply don’t see the vast majority of these recipes being feasible; you really need to have your own dedicated kitchen space. In addition, at least half of the recipes I would not classify as “cheap“. There are a lot of spices used, and specialty ingredients such as cassava & almond flours, buckwheat groats, carrot top fronds, sunflower and daikon radish sprouts, etc. So either a poor college student would have to skip quite a few recipes, or drastically alter them. I feel this cookbook would be more appropriate for an older adult cook, not a student, but that’s just my opinion.

Thank you to NetGalley & Quarto Publishing Group for this advanced reader copy. All opinions expressed in this review are my own.

This was a really fun book with great ideas. There are some dishes I'll definitely try, like the Sri Lankan Cashew Curry, the Tom Yam Noodle Soup or the Creamy Green Pesto. Others were a bit "out there" for me, but that's just personal preference, and I know there are people who'd buy this book for exactly those kinds of recipes -- e.g. the Funfetti Dunkaroo Dip sugar-fest, Peach Wasabi Salad, Strawberry Gazpacho or No-Mato Meatless Bolognese (which gets its color from red beets, which I'm not a fan of, and looks positively technocolor-ish), to give you an idea. Don't take this as negative critique, I'm admittedly not the most adventurous eater and these are exactly the kinds of dishes that make this book stand out and also make you look like kitchen royalty when you serve them up. At any rate, there are lots of other, less outré (but by no means plain) options to choose from. A lot of the dishes also look simply terrific -- I mean, just take a look at the Purple Rainy Day Soup!!! --, so if you need to impress someone with your vegan cooking skills, this book has you covered. There were some dishes that were a tad too "meat"-centric for me, such as the Sweet Tea Pulled Jackfruit Sandwich or the Cheesesteak Sandwich, but this is mainly due to the fact that I've never liked meat and haven't eaten it in decades, so the thought of eating even fake "pork" turns me off; then again, if you are looking to cut back on animal products and/or are cooking for a sceptical carnivore, this kind of thing would probably be really helpful.
What was especially cool was that ingredient-wise, a lot of the time the author includes a "lazy" option for those of us who don't feel like chopping up 5 cups of leafy greens or whatever. I also liked that there was a lot of variety when it came to serving sizes; I was especially happy about the "breakfast for one" options, because let's face it, I'm never going to prepare breakfast for ten people (sorry), but I do like a pancake or five.
I was very happy with the variety, this book shows you how to prepare all kinds of vegan foods from breakfast to entrées to dessert to salads to noodle/pasta dishes and beverages; it even has recipes for sweet snacks such as truffles or pumpkin gummies (which would also make a fantastic gift) or a molten lava cake you simply zap in the microwave, as well as some staples like almond parmesan or vegan mac & cheese. This is pretty much a perfect little all-rounder that should be especially helpful if you're new to vegan cooking, or cooking in general. There's a nice introduction to ingredients, nutrients and the like as well, which is in-depth enough to be of help to the newbie but doesn't go on long enough to exasperate the seasoned vegan.
If I have one small complaint, it's that I would have liked a bit more tofu dishes; there's only six recipes involving tofu (although depending on your prefereces this might even be an added bonus to you).

Being vegan and being a student can both be hard. With potential expensive recipes, complicated instructions and wierd ingredients, it can be difficult to balance a healthy lifestyle whilst on a tight budget. And this is where a book like this becomes you’re best friend and a great cookery companion to college and university students who live a plant based or vegan lifestyle.

It’s filled with loads of fantastic, simple, cheap and easy recipes whilst both being delicious and very appetising. I love the layout of the recipes, they’re so easy to follow and read which is great when you’re surrounded by cooking ingredients and utensils! The pictures really do the food justice too and I could eat everything in here!

The book included breakfasts, tasty sides and snacks, soups, one bowl meals and plenty of noodle dishes which I have my eyes on. I can’t wait to start cooking and I also loved the addition of protein boosting snacks too.

A must have for all the vegan students out there, or just anyone who wants to eat well on a budget.

I absolutely love this book! If you're not a student, don't worry, I'm not either, but I feel like this is a great book for anyone interested in eating yummy, healthy, and filling vegan food. The recipes are perfect for good everyday meals. I love the pictures, and that there's a picture attached to every recipe. I enjoy the easiness of many of the recipes, because sometimes you just need tasty food, and fast. I will make spring pea toast, good morning mango lassi, almond parmesan, peanut sadeko, and protein bark right after my next trip to the store. I have already made the deli-cious eggless salad sandwiches, because I kept drooling over the picture. Also, it's great that the ingredients are mostly simply to find, and it does not take a chef to make this delicious meals Highly recommended book!

While some of the recipes in this cookbook are lovely, I think the book misses the mark on being for students. Although the description touts it as something for students living in dorms and/or cooking in small kitchens, the number of gadgets required - namely a good blending - makes many of the recipes highly inaccessible. I don't know about you, but I know I wouldn't have appreciated hearing a blender going off in a neighboring room. On top of that, many dorms have strict rules as to what electronics you can have in your dorm. My dorm didn't even allow microwaves, and that wasn't some far-off time ago - it was 2015. I also think that a lot of the recipes are far from budget-friendly as the ingredients can range from cheap to expensive to plainly inaccessible.

Overall, while the cookbook has some promising recipes and a cute layout, the branding/marketing of the book could use some work. I can't see this working in any dormitory situation.

I received The Student Vegan Cookbook as part of a NetGalley giveaway.

Veganism is not necessarily an easy or affordable choice of diet, and as ease and affordability are typically top of mind for students, a vegan diet may be difficult to maintain while attending classes. The Student Vegan Cookbook seeks to remedy this with easy and accessible recipes for people with limited time and funds.

I was impressed that the recipes were in fact fairly simple and accessible, which isn't always the case for vegan cookbooks. There were always be "base" ingredients or supplements that will cost additional money (egg substitutes, protein powder, etc.), but for the most part the emphasis is on ingredients that can be found fairly easily. There's a nice variety of recipes and the layout and photography is well-done. A really nice set of recipes for those who may be new to the world of vegan eating and cooking.