Recipe book recommendations for uni student?

[JacknDiane]

I'd like to get ds a couple of recipe books for Christmas. He loves pasta, and eats a lot of chicken and protein. He goes to the gym.
His flat has an airfryer but he doesn't always use it. He likes batch cooking but gets fed up eating the same thing for days. Healthy food that doesn't take ages and isn't expensive and too fiddly would suit him. Im thinking of getting him a slow cooker so something using that would be good too.

Thanks

The Roasting Tin series would be great. Nice combinations all in one dish in the oven and generally no difficult to come by ingredients.

If he’s politically minded at all, there are some lovely Palestinian cookbooks. Not that you have to be political to enjoy the lovely food of Palestine!

Jamie Oliver ministry of food

Also Ticktock has thousands of independent people with good quick food books. I like dinner with Jon.

Thanks for these recommendations

Nosh for Students Cookbook. Most ingredients can be measured using a mug. It's a great cookbook, has lots of nutritious recipes set out in a way that appeals to students.

It also explains things like how to check if food is off, how to make a shopping list and budget.

My dc have used this book through uni and beyond, they found it a great book to use after they moved on to their adult lives too.

Hairy Bikers one pot wonders. Scale down quantities.

Second recommendation for Nosh for students - there are a couple of volumes and a veggie one.

Jamie Oliver ministry of food.

or his 15 minutes or 5 ingredients recipes.

Its highly unlikely theyll use them Theyll google

So on that basis

I made our boys a family recipe book with all their favourites that they have at home
I laminated each recipe and put in a binder

The Rachel Roddy pasta book is great

Alex Hughes (Alex's kitchen bangers on socials) sound like they for your brief, she has 2 books and the recipes mostly serve 1 or 2 but the ones that serve more are easily adaptable. All recipes list the calories and protein (just because you mentioned the protein and gym) as I believe she started out as a PT before focusing more on recipes. I've followed her on Instagram for ages and love her recipes so maybe have a look on there to see if you think he'll like them before buying them.

For the slow cooker good books are - Bored of lunch, Sarah Rossi , Archer Kitchen, Dean Edwards, Poppy Cooks. Again worth checking out their socials to see if you think those recipes will suit him. You could also have a look at samples from the book on Amazon/kindle. I always do that before I purchase one.

I do sort of agree with @BrownTroutBluesAgain though, most people I know, especially younger ones mostly use recipes they find online or from social media or will buy from Kindle etc rather than use a physical book.

The Joe Wicks books

I wrote my own for dd and sent it to her as a word file. It contains 20 of her favourite ever recipes and all are explained in a super detailed step by step language. In the ingredients section I detail where to buy the things we normally use as a family, for example it tells her to get the small jar of curry paste from x brand in Lidl. She’s been using it for 1.5 years and loves it (plus can easily be shared with other uni friends).