Ali Honour's easy recipes for students returning to college

It is that time of year once more when a brand new cohort of Irish mammies commences an age-old ritual, that perilous teetering around the edge of a nervous breakdown that comes with sending progeny off to college, to live away from home for the first time.
And, to further compound this great anxiety is the dawning realisation that a lifetime spent dancing attendance, catering for every whim and fancy, has actually been their greatest folly, that these near-adult offspring have no more ability to look after themselves than the average toddler, able to wipe their own bums but rather vague as to which plant toilet paper comes from.