Meals for one?

Scottish_Lass
Scottish_Lass Posts: 76
edited January 1 in Food and Nutrition
Hey folks!


Any decent and reasonably cheap meals tailored for us poor souls who live alone? I'm quite new to living by myself and I am struggling for ideas. I like to experiment with food, and will eat pretty much anything, so give me all you got!


Thanks in advance. :D

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  • StinkyWinkies
    StinkyWinkies Posts: 603 Member
    I use Pillsbury Cooking for Two recipes quite a bit, being careful with the biscuits (I usually modify every recipe I use anyway, regardless)

    Also, check out Allrecipes . com, you can tailor those for more or less.

    Leftovers can be frozen, of course (except potatoes don't freeze real well)
  • shade0343
    shade0343 Posts: 59 Member
    Salad's are easy and can be fun if you don't load them with too much stuff. I especially like herb salad and spinach salads, Soup is easy and you can freeze what you don't eat and have the rest later. I admit to having become the master of dividing stuff and spreading it over the week.
  • Gwen7121
    Gwen7121 Posts: 126 Member
    I've lived alone for a while now. George Foreman's small grill can be your very best friend. I've found that grilling a piece of protein, and throwing some veggies on the plate is the healthiest, and not too expensive way to eat. Definitely better than canned soup and frozen meals!

    You can also cook in family size recipes, and freeze the leftovers but I'm not as fond of that. Some folks love it though.
  • ashesfromfire
    ashesfromfire Posts: 867 Member
    Chicken breasts are great because you don't really have to divide them up, making it easy to make a meal for one.
    Sweet potatoes (smallish ones) work great this way too. 1 potato for one person.
  • Rhia55
    Rhia55 Posts: 247
    I live alone and if you look at my food diary you'll see I'm not the person to be giving advice on this subject. :)
  • Scottish_Lass
    Scottish_Lass Posts: 76
    Just checked out allrecipes, wish I knew about that site before! How handy!
    Salad's are easy and can be fun if you don't load them with too much stuff. I especially like herb salad and spinach salads, Soup is easy and you can freeze what you don't eat and have the rest later. I admit to having become the master of dividing stuff and spreading it over the week.

    Soups sound good, any favourite recipes?

    Thanks for the replies!
  • Tw1zzler
    Tw1zzler Posts: 583
    I used to cook a full recipe and then freeze the leftovers in single serving sizes for later. Also you can find fish fillets individually frozen and just cook what you will eat. You can also cut regular recipes in half or quarters in a lot of cases.
  • Pixie8504
    Pixie8504 Posts: 174 Member
    check out the hungry girl books. there are alot of meals that serve one person.
  • Illona88
    Illona88 Posts: 903 Member
    What I do is that I cook for two and freeze half of it for days when I don't have time or don't feel like cooking.
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