Cooking for one !!

MoneyWorry

Can anyone help or point me in the direction of meal planning and budgeting for one? I tend to shop in Tesco and nowhere else, but am finding the same as everyone else, my shopping bill creeping up......currently standing at around £35 per week for me and the the cat!!!

I usually have good intentions of making from scratch, but always end up having wasted food.......then I end up going back to ready prepared meals.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Penelope_Penguin

Hello and welcome!

Take a look here - loads of earlier threads. I'll add your post to that later.

HTH, Penny. x

debtfreefuture

Can anyone point me in the direction of a link for meal plans for one person. I have been living on my own for a few months now the kids (now grown up) have all left home in the space of a year.

I am really struggling to eat healthily. I come in from work and just have toast or cereal or a ready meal:eek: . Veg that I buy is going off too quickly and I hate frozen veg. I am so used to doing OS dinner for all of us - and now it seems a bit pointless cooking veg/shep pie / roasts etc for one.

Thanks you all in anticipation.
DFF

LoopyLinz

Hi

Didnt want to read and run. Have you considered making the things you used to and frezzing them in portions just for yourself?

Sorry I dont have any other suggestions but if I think of any I will be sure to come back and post again!

Linz xoxox

count_rostov

I know exactly what you mean. I lived by myself for about three years after I graduated and although I'm naturally OS-inclined and love cooking, I really struggled to eat properly. I always intended to cook family-sized meals and freeze the extra portions so that I would build up a supply of 'ready-meals' in the freezer. I managed probably about half of the time, the other half it was pasta and butter or rice and pesto! It was so bad, especially as I'd always been with really nice flatmates as a student and we used to eat roasts together and stuff.
But, the longer they spend away the more your children will want to visit so you'll end up cooking enormous family meals again!

Penelope_Penguin

Hi there :beer: I';ll add this to an existing Cooking for One thread. There are loads more links in there.

Penny. x

fizzel81

not a huge amount of help but one weekend (ish) i have the joys of cooking for myself

it helps as suggested if you have acess to a freezer as when i bulk cook etc i freeze a portion of 2 for when im on my own or if we have a few of the same things i defrost for me and the boys

if you can bulk cook the possablitys are endless

sometimes i will do something simple like a baked spud with a tuna salad,chesses etc

and if im lazy or i see something at a fab price (ready meal wise) i will buy, this saturday i will be having a 10p vegtable lasangue (massive woopsie) with a salad