Jan Arkless tells you all the things you need to know if you are away from home and cooking for yourself for the first time. From scrambled eggs and frying sausages right up to cooking a Sunday lunch or a splendid curry. There are also plenty of vegetarian dishes.

Packed full of recipe ideas as well as giving the reader a grounding in the food groups, ingredients and store cupboard essentials. The reader will learn how to cook with confidence and realise that they don't need to spend their budget on expensive takeaways.

Jan Arkless is a qualified teacher of Home Economics who taught in Secondary and Special schools. Jan began writing as a career and pastime which could be indulged in whenever time was available. Jan soon decided that she preferred writing to teaching, and has since written several successful Right Way titles on cookery and weddings. Jan lives in Oxford, England, with her husband, Bill, and has four grown up children.