Fast family food that tastes wonderful!

If your ravenous offspring are desperate for an after-school snack, and you need to rustle up a delicious and filling plateful of something tasty fast, this unusual cookbook could hold the answer to your prayeres--recipes that can be prepared from start to finish in less than five minutes. Likewise, if you're expected to create an all-singing, all-dancing birthday tea, look no further. All situations and numbers (from one to a crowd) are catered for. Among these 150 recipes are weekday breakfasts and lazy brunches, speedy midweek suppers and leisurely weekend lunches, not to mention weekday boxes ( the bane of most working mom's lives). There's comfort food for those days when the world has conspired against you, and one-pot dishes that are especially useful if the dishwasher has broken. You'll find recipes here to suit the fussiest of eaters, veggies, and carnivores, dishes to suit those with a sweet tooth, and new ways with everyone's store-cupboard standbys.