Anyone eat like this?

Left overs are great

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give this a read...lots of great from scratch recipes ideas ......... for ONE!!!!!

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Not here.. I love fresh fruits and veggies.. I use a food scale to be accurate about what I eat. . I use canned items and such as little as possible. . If I use them. . I get no salt added varieties~

I hated cooking for a long time, but since my husband and I decided to get healthy, cooking together has become a nice relaxing and kinda romantic thing we do every evening. If you learn how to cook for just one or two, you can eliminate wasteful cooking. We waste almost nothing when we cook now, and we've gotten good enough to make a lot of more ornate meals that you'd spend a fortune on at a gourmet restaurant at home for 1/4 the price.

I used to eat microwave dinners frequently and it helped me lose weight. Yes it has more carbs and sodium in it but it does the trick.

most of the time i am cooking for myself and i almost never use packaged stuff. either i make enough just for me, or yeah, have leftovers! love em for lunch

There are really great creative ways to use leftovers. One of my current faves is to do turkey burgers for dinner. Now granted, I'm cooking for four but this can easily adapted to just one. Anyway, my kids won't eat burgers, so I make one for me, one for my wife, and the rest get cut up for salads at lunchtime. A half turkey burger with some shredded Swiss cheese, possibly sunflower seeds, and some diced tomato, cucumber, and avocado over a mix of baby Romaine and spinach...no dressing needed! Thus, one meal starting with a lb. of ground turkey becomes 3 - 5 meals easily. I know the whole cooking for one thing...but if you're willing to be creative you can really use leftovers as a means of breaking free from the packets and cans. Is it a challenge? To be sure it is, but it can be done and is worth the effort!

Does anyone else find they don't really eat meals or even home cooked things often? I realised yesterday that most days I eat all cans and tubs and packets. Mostly do this to be accurate about calories plus it is easier! Cooking for one isn't great, so much wastage.

Yes, but I have just started using my slow cooker again.....Just chuck in the ingredients and wait a few hours and a beautiful meal......I divide it into containers and freeze......I use the recipe creator here and it gives you how many cals per serve....

Crock pots are amazing. This is a really good cookbook for slow cookers: http://www.amazon.com/Crockpot-Original-Slow-Cooker-Books/dp/1412729734/ref=pd_sim_b3

We got it as a wedding gift, and it's been wonderful.

I cook everyday! I try not to eat too much prepackaged food. You can even freeze leftovers to reheat on busier days or for work lunches, etc. I usually eat salads for lunch...they're quick, easy and healthy if you don't load them up with junk.

I'm the same way. I'm getting better about cooking something for dinner, but mostly eat pre-packaged things for lunch at work. I also am only cooking for one. I simply don't like leftovers- I don't know I've always been that way. Food just doesn't taste good once it's been re-heated, refrigerated, sitting out, etc. I don't want to waste my calories on eating something I don't want too, but I don't want to waste as you said. I search for either really small recipes or things I can just make one serving of by cutting down the recipe. Devin Alekksander has some great low-calorie recipes that only make 1 or 2 servings, and they're very easy if you're not much of a cook. I make a lot of stuff from her books regularly.

Actually I am the opposite of you. Before MFP, I was eating out of cans and other prepared meals. Since joining MFP, I actually have started cooking again and actually like it. I do have to freeze a lot of stuff or eat the same thing a couple of days a week but it is still good.

I also cook mainly for one...as my family members don't always want to eat what I am making..so I make it and I eat one serving and put the rest in single serving portions and freeze them for another date..that way all I have to do is microwave it and its done..and I have it saved in memory base for a later date...

If you make a recipe for yourself..MFP will do the math for you and calculate per serving of what it is..so you don't have to do the math! I love it! It also calculates the nutrition for you as well! ;-)

Thanks for the replies. I know how unhealthy this is and how many additives and chemicals I'm eating, I hate that.

I do cook, just not often enough because I find it more expensive and plans change and I end up going out for 3 days straight and the food goes to waste, etc. Most of what I cook is not great to freeze.

Does anyone have any quick, healthy recipes for one they want to share??

I made some really good haddock in the pan with some steamed broccoli tonight for. It's only about 200 calories for an entire plate too.

Recipe:

1 3 oz. haddock loin (boneless, skinless, thawed or frozen)
1 roma tomato, diced
1 small onion, diced
1 clove garlic, diced
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp McCormick no-salt Garlic Pepper seasoning
1 tbsp lemon juice (Realemon works fine)
1 tbsp canola oil

Line a large pan with canola oil and heat to medium. Put in frozen or thawed haddock filet. Top with everything else. Cover and cook for 10 minutes (frozen) or 7 minutes (thawed). Serve with 1/2 bag of microwave steamed broccoli (Birdseye makes great veggies with nearly no sodium that you can just stick in the microwave and eat).

With broccoli, the whole thing is about 200 calories. It's very filling, very lean (mostly fat free), and very rich in protein (21 grams). If you go to the seafood section of a grocery store, you can usually find haddock or other fish filets individually wrapped and frozen. These make great staples that can be cooked quickly.

If you don't feel like chopping stuff, you can use Pace chunky mild salsa instead of the tomatoes, garlic, an onion. It adds qutie a bit of sodium though.

Because of the accurate calorie count, I've been eating a lot of fozen meals and canned soup. I simply don't trust that I could cook something and come up with a correct calorie count.
Hubby made 3.5 gallons of chili yesterday. We drained and rinsed the beef and I wrote down and calculated calories for everything that went in there. Came up to 177 cals per cup. It took me 3 hours and re-calculating everything a bunch of times before I was finally able to eat 1 cup. I would have been happier with a can of chili with an exact calorie count.
At the same time, I'm getting very tired of all the pre-packaged stuff.

I have to admit I am very much the same purely for the reason you know exactly the calories, fat, carb content etc. I eat pre-packaged sandwichs and salads, mircowave meals, tinned soups etc I know its not the best for you, but I prefer to know exactly the cal content and it seems to work for me!