Things you'll need:

• Kettle: Not only for the kitchen. If you’ve got a sink in your room, you’re all set for making a brew in the nude. If you like that sort of thing, that is…
• Cutlery: Hardcore budgeters make the most of the free plastic cutlery in the M&S ready-to-eat section.
• Plates & bowls: Try and get the kind that are oven or microwave-happy.
• Mugs & glasses: For drinking out of and, in extreme circumstances only, makeshift ashtrays.
• Pans: At least one frying, at least one sauce.
• A decent knife: For cutting veggies, not coercing your flatmates into doing the washing up.

Things to borrow:

• Toaster: You can always use the grill on the oven, and in a real toast emergency, the gas flame on the stove for that, er, smoky BBQ flavour.
• Toasted sandwich maker: A meal in five minutes.
• Colander: That pasta ain’t gonna drain itself.
• Tin-opener & corkscrew: Beans and wine, what more does a culinary feast need?
• Fish slice/spatula & wooden spoon
• Vegetable peeler

Don't bother:

• Microwave egg-poachers and anything else that belongs in the Innovations catalogue.

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