Food ideas for one?

Wraps, have with a huge salad or a small baked sweet potato, cut it into wedges and season how you like it, with some low cal spray. You can quickly throw together a fajita, or use soy, balsamic, a pinch of chinese 5 spice and a tsp of peanutbutter for a "satay" wrap, or a salad wrap with all your favourite salad fillers

Stir fries, so quick and easy and you can get low calorie noodles, but brown rice is great. You can make so many different sauces that are so quick - that satay, or thai sweet chili, sweet and sour, whatever you like, keep a bag of frozen stir fry veg and add your own fresh ones and the frozen bag will you you greater variety

My ideas are still all processed/packaged stuff, so they've still got a lot of sodium, but I got so tired of the lean cuisine type stuff, so they're at least a little different than that...and I'm a terrible cook.

Lunches:
Salads w/ parmesan cheese (less calories than regular cheese), sliced almonds, and sometimes lunch meat
Chicken Wraps (I buy canned chicken that makes this nice and easy)
Uncrustables
Sandwiches (I use pita bread instead of regular bread - I just like it a lot better)

Dinner:
-Frozen veggie burgers
-Canned soup and crackers
-Grilled Cheese (my problem is not putting too much cheese on, I LOVE cheese!)
-Baked Breaded Chicken - just coat a raw piece of chicken in bread crumbs and cook for 30 minutes (this is my version of "cooking", lol, I'm a terrible cook).
-Fajitas are fairly easy if you buy the Tyson pre-cooked chicken strips - just throw them in a pan and heat them up with fajita seasoning and peppers
-Pasta w/ Marinara sauce or light alfredo sauce (again you could add the pre-cooked chicken strips). You can also buy pasta that's made partially with vegetables - I do this to help get more veggies in).

I am a big believer in cooking once, eating for a while on it. On the weekends, I'll make a massive amount of something, and eating on it during the week for lunch at work, or dinner. And another thing that helps it go a bit longer: reduce the amount of it, but add a side salad to the meal.

I try to limit my frozen meal intake, just because of sodium, but as long as you make something healthier yourself, one, it makes you feel better, and two, you're more apt to make a better food choice

My husband just had surgery last week, and he asked me to make a few extra baked chicken breasts so he could make chicken pita pockets, or add to salads while I'm here at work.

I'm eating leftovers this week, so I'll have chicken noodle soup for about 3 days, and I'll make chicken tamales for the remainder of the week. I also have taco turkey, which is just a pound of ground turkey browned, drained, and a package of low-sodium taco seasoning. I add it to a bed of salad, and top with salsa, and either plain greek yogurt or fat free sour cream. That's one of our favorites because you can switch it up to chicken, beef, pork, etc... and it still tastes amazing, and it's easy!

I do a lot of eggs for dinner. I usually just use the whites and make frittatas or omelets using different chopped veg and measured cheeses. Then I either pop an english muffin in the toaster, or do some frozen sweet potato fries. it can be a little different every time depending on what you have lying around, but it's one of these meals that's really quick and can be low in calories if you're detailed with your measuring. My advice is to start with one meal you want to make that isn't too overwhelming, and once you have that down, start with another. You'll soon have a rotating list of dishes that you can pull together any night as long as you keep the ingredients in the house.

i live alone and cook for myself. i usually do easy stir fry.. lots of veggies, as i'm not a meat fan. some kind of sauce (soy, chilli, teriyake, etc).. goes with rice or noodles.
or i'll make noodle soup. very easy as well. similar as the stir fry but just with a broth lol.
i'm a lazy cook

Baked potatoes are my favorite quick meals. They cook in the microwave and are chock full of good goodness. Where it fails in restaurants is that it's not dressed up in a healthy way. Fat Free or reduced fat Sour Cream + Cheese is all I need. If it's going to be my meal, I'll cook up an egg and stir fry some spinach or boil some broccoli.

Avocado Chicken salad sandwich is solid, too. Basically, I take some chicken (diced or canned is fine) add about half an avocado, with a touch of salsa and a quick squirt of lime. Slap it on some bread with some lettuce and I've got an amazing sandwich.

Fish is amazingly easy if you have a toaster oven. Take a frozen slab, place it in tin foil with some sauce or juice. Fold it up into a pouch. Place it on a cookie sheet and toaster oven that up for about 20 - 30 minutes at about 350 degrees. It should come out steaming. You can also add some broccoli and string beans or asparagus to that pouch. I usually use Terriyaki sauces with some garlic, onions, lemon juice or some combination. Don't add too much watery stuff. Smoked Hot Sauce works really nicely with tilapia. If you're doing Chilean Sea bass this way, just add wine, soy sauce and ginger slivers.

Sometimes, I add rice, lettuce, chicken, beans, avocado, salsa, sour cream, smoked chipotle hot sauce to make a home made burrito bowl.

Anyways, this post has made me very hungry.

Ideas and inspiration:
http://www.thekitchn.com/solo-in-the-kitchen-tips-on-co-68864

http://www.thekitchn.com/one-rotisserie-chicken-one-woman-five-days-cooking-for-one-167904

Good luck and enjoy!

Well, if you let go of the whole "dinner food" notion you can make an omelete with lots of veggies. I almost always do that when I get left home alone. Or I whip up a baked sweet potatoes with steamed veggies.

I feel ya! I live alone and some of my fav meals are:

Bisquick Heart Healthy pancakes with maps or agave syrup and a couple sausages
Sloppy joe (buy hamburger sliders and freeze in pairs for 1/4 lb servings) with ketchup, mustard, brown sugar on a sandwich thin
Salmon filet thinly coated with mayo, season with salt, pepper, and dried basil baked at 350 for 40 mins
A bowl of cereal - when i have it for dinner, I can have a bigger portion
Cook a frozen chicken patty, slice it into strips and make a wrap with shredded cheese and ketchup
Buy tortellini and portion it out into servings. You can freeze 'em and just cook a serving when you want.

I make recipes with 4 servings (or 8 if I'm cooking for me and my husband) and package them in the fridge for the week on my days off. That way I don't have to cook when I'm tired from work, or don't feel like it. But making big batches isn't so bad, esp since you can control the ingredients and flavors. Pastas are great and easy, and you can load them up with veggies, I made baked potatoes this week, and those were very easy, foil packs you can bake in the oven are fantastic and easy, you just throw the ingredients in a foil sheet, roll it up and bake! Soups are great and easy to put together and store well too. Honestly, there is a lot you can make with not a lot of effort. WebMD, Allrecipes, Keyingredient, Hungry Girl and just general google searches are what I use to find recipes, depending on what I feel like making for the week.

We also keep sandwich staples and eggs around which are great for any time. You can make a sandwich with the slim bread for about 200-300 calories depending on what you want to use in it. Eggs are great for protien and are so easy to make any time of day. I love scrambles and omlettes topped with sriacha, red onion, bell peppers etc.