Cooking for one

I cook for one but I am a faddy eater so I can happily eat the same meal 3 days in a row. I collect the little plastic cartons takeaways come in so I can pre portion up my food and either fridge or freeze it.

my current obsession is quorn balls in tomato and tabasco sauce because for a main meal I can have pasta and for a lunch I can have a subway roll.
I also love curry so I tend to make a batch and split it into one plate and as many containers as is appropriate.
good meal for singletons (and those who eat like them) is omlette because it's single serving and you can make it as calorific as your plan requires.
I read a freezer food cook book for advice about freezing foods which helped. I think planning helps but my brain and lifestyle don't work well with that.

in for suggestions also...it's just me , to do all the planning, shopping and cooking. This is actually a goal of mine this week - to prepare more of my own and stop depending on the weird random selection work cafeteria provides...

Stir fry is very easy--a bunch of your favorite vegetables, a protein, and a bit of oil. Salads are great. So many combos! Omelets too.

I always have a batch of either homemade vegetable soup or a bean soup or vegetarian chili--something low in calories and high in nutrition--in my fridge. That way I've ALWAYS got something to build a meal around. I'll often just add a half sandwich--something on good bread with quality deli meat so I feel like I'm at a cafe and a glass of cold whole milk.

I cook for one and while sometimes i dont feel like cooking most of the time it's not too bad. I do tend to batch cook food and freeze in it portions a fair bit as otherwise I find I wont eat as well as I should do. Just have a day a week where you cook up extra portions and freeze them. Its so easy to take it out in the morning ready for the night.

I cook every meal just for myself. I mostly cook single-serve stir fries for dinner (sausage or chicken, spinach, green beans, broccoli and mushrooms in butter and avocado oil) but there are times when I want to follow a recipe. Last night, for example, I made 4 crab cakes and ate 2 for dinner and will have the other 2 for lunch today. I'll do that during the week and bring my leftovers to work for lunch. I find a recipe I like and either halve it or figure out how many servings/meals I want out of it and then just make that much of it.

Before eating healthy I cooked on Sundays and then packaged it up for the week. I'd make something in the slow cooker, like salsa chicken, that I could use to make burritos or wraps or to top a salad plus some baked chicken patties that I could put over pasta or turn into a chicken burger. It worked well, for the most part.

I find I'm now eating healthier, fresher, more tasty meals now that I cook everything right before I eat it. I work full time as well and enjoy coming home and cooking. Whatever suits your needs is good; don't be afraid to try a few different systems.

I cook for one as well. I have roommates but we pretty much all do our own thing where food is concerned. I agree that batch cooking is super handy, even if its not a whole recipe it's good to have parts ready like quinoa or brown rice. I always boil a ton of eggs on the weekend so they are there to grab for a quick breakfast or to add to a salad. A recent discovery of mine is using the slow cooker. I got one for free and have been using it a ton. Its great for one person because you can just throw everything in there in the morning and poof its ready when you get home with enough leftovers for the next day and there are TONS of good healthy recipes for slow cooking on the internet.