Cooking for One

I did a lot of egg-based dishes when I was cooking for one. Pasta dishes also work well.

I have a crockpot, I think it's 4 qts. I read in the instruction manual that if you want to cook something smaller, to use an oven proof glass dish inside.

I'm all about the leftovers!  Do you like Mexican food & chili?  One thing I like to do is make Mexican food:  spiced beef, and then the beans separately for burritos (with the fixins - cheese, lettuce, etc).  Rather than refried beans, I always heat up tins (you could just use 1) of pinto beans & add seasonings.  Then when our Mexican meal is over, I dump all the leftovers of the meat & beans together, and voila!  You have chili con carne (with beans).  It freezes easily as well.

Also, if you still fancy a roast dinner from time to time - that's the ultimate leftovers meal!  Get yourself a smallish piece of meat to roast.  You have some leftover for a sandwich another day.  And then some to make like a curry or shepherds/cottage pie with for another hot meal (and you could freeze some of that).

And chicken...well you know all about stretching a chicken.  You could freeze the leftovers in individual size portions.

 

We have that Delia's One is Fun book but we don't use it - I think DH did when he was a bachelor.  I'll give it a look over, and you never know, I might know somewhere you can get a fabulous deal on it! 

 
I do love Mexican! I wouldn't have thought to do it that way round.

I knew there were cookbooks for two, I just never bought any. I'm horrible at making lunches for work since I have to be there at the  of dawn. Making a dish for two and having leftovers may be a good idea.