This is a great gift idea for a friend who is just moving into his or her first apartment. You might want to find a common theme for the recipes, such as meals that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less. Or, you can get each of your friends to contribute a few of their favourite recipes.

What you'll need:
- Dollar store photo album. I like to shop the dollar stores because you are guaranteed to get the cheesiest images on the album covers
- Index cards; different colours work well if you are going to divide the book into categories like appetizers, main course, vegetables, desserts
- Pens or markers
- Recipes

Instructions:
- Write the recipes on the index cards
- If you have room, leave a number of cards blank so your friend can add his or her own recipes
- Slip the index cards into the plastic photo album sleeves. Voila!