Food for Singles

When someone tells you cooking for one is fun – ask if you can have what they’re having?!

Shopping, when you can justify it, is usually a 10 minute trip around the supermarket and a 15 minute wait at the checkout – but at least you get to read the “Lifestyle Magazines”!

What’s not in your trolley :

A roast - 2 hours effort for 5 nights in a row… Hello!
Green vegetables - was that 5 nights and 2 vege
Pet food - even with the best intentions, there’s always leftovers…
Yoghurt - if you wait long enough, you create your own

A creative shopping idea:

Breakfast cereal – Not just the best way to start the day

What cooking books are tempting you back into the kitchen:

Single bowl meals
Quick and easy 5 minute creations
Survival of the Toughest Stomach – Iron Chef revisited
CWA Cookbook – your Mother’s copy

Take time to be thankful for not having to spend hours cleaning the oven, scrubbing the stove top and assessing the quality of cooking utensils. The energy (equate money) savings made from not having to run the dishwasher, washing up only when visitors call in, being able eat your meals while watching TV (multi-skilled) and best of all… never having to iron (or own) a table cloth!

However, some ancient wisdom:

It’s no coincidence that the kitchen is representative of your creative energy – how you see your own worth to others. Where do your friends and family congregate? Can you turn it around - make your kitchen a happy active place to encourage and create nourishment for your life? The food you buy and prepare represents your wealth. Healthy, nutritious, interesting food will sustain your greatest wealth – your ongoing health.

Start in small ways to encourage yourself back into the kitchen… a bowl of fresh fruit within easy reach, pick a simple recipe each week and invite someone over to share it. Buy fresh baked bread on the way home to leave on the bench top, put a plant in your kitchen – make it a herb and experiment with it’s flavour.

“Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon, or not at all”
-- Piet van Home