So, I'm asking for help...

[q]

What kind of meals, lunch and supper, for one, can you suggest?

Breakfast is pretty easy for me. I almost always have the same type of thing everyday for Breakfast, of course a day with a long run, the breakfast changes.

I eat a lot of little meals:

Breakfast
2nd breakfasts (A little LOTR there, - A Snack sized brunch)
Lunch
High afternoon tea (well, mid-afternoon snack sounds less glam now doesn't it)
Supper
Evening snack.


I guess what I am asking help mostly is for healthly lunches and suppers. The snacks are usually a muffin/kashi bar and fruit or veggie (can you say mini carrots?)

I'm pretty good with the barbie, the oven and the range.

The mircowave is usually too long, or too short. Finding the perfect time seems to be a trick, a lot of stuff is like deep fired ice cream, hot on the outside cold on the inside. So, lets try to avoid those. But I'm not afraid to try if it is real good.

Oh, and I need to go to Rona or some such place for a couple of countertop appilances... Any volunteers for a road trip????

[drghfx]

I guess, reading things into this, that I'm sorry that you require meals for one. Handshakes Buddy!

[trixiee]

That was my initial thought too... Not sure, but if you need a hug - here it is ((((((((((Q))))))))))))

Now that we have down-sized to 2, I've found that using smaller pots and pans prevents me from cooking too much. We're pretty much meat and potatoes folks evey night, with leftovers for lunch... When I'm on the road, I pack those Nordica Cottage cheese things or those wee little cans of tuna, some melba toast, cucumber sticks, yogurt, an apple a pear and a banana.

Grocery Store Salad in a bag with lean protein (ham/turkey), a boiled egg/cheese might be good for you for lunch?

Cooking a whole chicken on the barbie would give you leftover chicken for sandwiches/salad for a few consecutive days...

[drghfx]

Cold barley soup is always good!

[La]

Cooking for one just means lots of leftovers for lunch the next day! I mean, if you're going to go to the trouble of cooking, might as well make a little extra so that you don't have to cook every night. And, as Trix suggested, cook a whole chicken and you can do lots of different things with it throughout the week.

Cold barley soup... good one, Dennis!

[trixiee]

If you have a slice of bread before and after, you can call it a barley sandwich!

[RA.]

You can cook a lot of meals for one.

I just usually repackage and freeze meat when I buy it - i.e. use one chicken breast and freeze the rest in individual serving sizes.

Or I'll make meals that reheat well and make enough for 3 meals (one supper, 2 reheated meals).

I also cook soups or casseroles that I can freeze individual servings for later. I like to have some different stuff in the freezer in case I need a lunch. Things that freeze well are: squash soup, rockin morracin stew, lasagna, etc.

[HCcD]

One word, Brendan ...

M&M Meat Shops

err, 3 words, I guess ..

[caro]

Unfortunately, when cooking for one, I usually eat cereal. Don't think you want that. However, I'll shop with you! I love small kitchen appliances.

[Iron-North]

You don't want to hear or taste my cooking for one... It is very uneatable although very healthy.

Mixtures of what ever goes the fastest. Usually raw or left overs from the week before.

Cooking for two is a whole new game! It is actually worth taking the time.

So what you can do is cook for two. And you have a meal for the next day!!!

make lazagna is 3 different dish. Freeze 2 them and VOILÀ!

For exemple you don't want to cook 4 boxes of Kraft dinner... cuz it is insane or will drive you ...


Oh and who is Q already?

[Jo-Jo]

One word, Brendan ...

M&M Meat Shops

err, 3 words, I guess ..

Actually this is not that crazy an idea.
I generally don't mind cooking for myself during the week (dh only home weekends) but there are times when I just don't feel like it...so I hit the M&M.
I like their Onion Soup, Mushroom Soup. Yummy with some baguette and a healthy salad and a couple pieces of cheese.
I also like their salmon with dill sauce, and turkey wrapped in bacon. Add that along with a salad, a baked potato and/or cooked veggie and you have a good meal.

This might sound like a really crazy idea but something I do in the fall and spring. I have a client whose church has a sale at those times of year with an awesome deli table. The prices are crazy..i.e. not expensive. I buys lots of stuff there

[Iron-North]

Brenden!!!!! I was thinking it might be...

[braveheart]

Yes cooking for one can be tough but I am all good with leftovers so I am ok. I usually cook a batch of chicken stir fry or taco meat or quiona and use it throughout the week

http://www.thebigcook.com/ - is a good book as it has all the ingredients needed that you can just throw in ziplock bags and bring out when needed, pop in a slowcooker and just enjoy

and if you needed a hug ((((((((((((Q)))))))))))))))

[RayMan]

I have been cooking for one for years - I just make the same size meal, and eat the leftovers the next day.

Healthy choices: a chicken or beef stir-fry, with onions, green peppers, mushrooms and some peanuts or cashews. Yummy.

Buy a jar of pasta sauce, brown 500 grams of hamburger and chuck it in. Simmer the sauce, throw in some frozen veggies (mixed carrots / peas are delicious). Freeze the sauce you don't eat, for later.

Get a good meatloaf recipe - I have one that makes mini-loaves, and they taste good after a few days in the fridge.

Get a rice cooker, if you don't have one already.

Eat well!

[Lonerunner]

Oh, and I need to go to Rona or some such place for a couple of countertop appilances... Any volunteers for a road trip????

I'm always up for a road trip.

Like others said, freezing leftovers works well for me. There is always lunch ready to take to work. The bags of salad are great. When I buy chicken or pork I divide the packages into individual portions.

And there is no reason cereal can't be for supper.

Being a non-cook myself, I've survived the last year, you'll do great.

[HCcD]

And there is no reason cereal can't be for supper.

Even cheese omlettes for supper have become one of my mainstay and makes an Egg-Cellent meal :drool:

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[La]

As evident in my over-stuffed freezer, I don't do so well with frozen leftovers. I'm more likely to reheat leftovers that are in the fridge in the few days after I make it. Once it makes it into the freezer, it's unlikely to see the light of day again! For that reason, I tend to cook enough for 2-4 portions, as opposed to giant portions of things that I won't be able (or want) to eat within a week.

[RA.]

Another option is to cook for more than 1 and invite me over.

[Stephan]

You'll be fine my friend!!!!

[CeilidhOnTheRun]

I like the cooking big and having leftovers. I would suggest you invest in some decent one-serving/meal-size glass containers with plastic seals that you can use for leftovers. Throw some in the freezer for when you just don't feel like cooking, take some to work for lunches...

[Irongirl]

I like the cooking big and having leftovers. I would suggest you invest in some decent one-meal-size glass containers with plastic seals that you can use for leftovers. Throw some in the freezer for when you just don't feel like cooking, take some to work for lunches...

ahh, I'm the other way around.

I would suggest that he invest in some good single-serving tupperware. I freeze all our leftovers in single serving dishes - really easy to grab and go.....or grab and re-heat one serving.

[CeilidhOnTheRun]

I like the cooking big and having leftovers. I would suggest you invest in some decent one-meal-size glass containers with plastic seals that you can use for leftovers. Throw some in the freezer for when you just don't feel like cooking, take some to work for lunches...

ahh, I'm the other way around.

I would suggest that he invest in some good single-serving tupperware. I freeze all our leftovers in single serving dishes - really easy to grab and go.....or grab and re-heat one serving.

That's what I mean, single-serving size...
I suggested glass just because microwaving plastic is not such a great idea (however, my house is filled with it, and I'm too cheap to replace it, and thus continue to use it)

[Irongirl]

I like the cooking big and having leftovers. I would suggest you invest in some decent one-meal-size glass containers with plastic seals that you can use for leftovers. Throw some in the freezer for when you just don't feel like cooking, take some to work for lunches...

ahh, I'm the other way around.

I would suggest that he invest in some good single-serving tupperware. I freeze all our leftovers in single serving dishes - really easy to grab and go.....or grab and re-heat one serving.

That's what I mean, single-serving size...
I suggested glass just because microwaving plastic is not such a great idea (however, my house is filled with it, and I'm too cheap to replace it, and thus continue to use it)

ah, when I read "meal size" -I thought you meant full meals

[Jo-Jo]

As evident in my over-stuffed freezer, I don't do so well with frozen leftovers. I'm more likely to reheat leftovers that are in the fridge in the few days after I make it. Once it makes it into the freezer, it's unlikely to see the light of day again! For that reason, I tend to cook enough for 2-4 portions, as opposed to giant portions of things that I won't be able (or want) to eat within a week.

Guilty as charged...I'm the same as La.

BTW...is anyone else totally impressed that HCiD knows how to make a cheese omelette...let alone eat one

[CeilidhOnTheRun]

I like the cooking big and having leftovers. I would suggest you invest in some decent one-meal-size glass containers with plastic seals that you can use for leftovers. Throw some in the freezer for when you just don't feel like cooking, take some to work for lunches...

ahh, I'm the other way around.

I would suggest that he invest in some good single-serving tupperware. I freeze all our leftovers in single serving dishes - really easy to grab and go.....or grab and re-heat one serving.

That's what I mean, single-serving size...
I suggested glass just because microwaving plastic is not such a great idea (however, my house is filled with it, and I'm too cheap to replace it, and thus continue to use it)

ah, when I read "meal size" -I thought you meant full meals

LOL - I meant a meal for Q.