Tip and tools for cooking for one

snowball
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:55:42 +0000

@BuckeyeMWDSG You also will eat popcorn for dinner; sometimes it is ice cream here! I have thought about the meal kits, but only for a couple of days a week. I might revisit that, but like the hate to spend thread, I feel like I could pick up a dinner out for almost the same cost.

@greenbutton I have no trouble making a starch; I could survive on pasta, potatoes and rice!

I need to get more protein back into my diet, which is why I thought the grill pan would be an easy way to prepare a piece of chicken, fish or a small steak, without doing a full fledged dish. Throw in a few piece of veggies to grill, add a side of rice and I could be done. I do use my air fryer, but not for meat; maybe I should try that.

Even if I wanted to make a large batch of something and freeze it, I don’t have freezer room. When we downsized, we lost the extra freezer as there was no place to put it here. For some reason what is mostly in my freezer is food for my GD for when she visits; she has food allergies, so we have specific safe food for her.

I have never used a slow cooker, but that is something I could try. I guess I grew up with a mother making large meals and she never used a slow cooker, so while I received one as a wedding gift in 1980, it sat unopened in our attic until a move in the mid 90’s where it was sold at a garage sale!