Meal Planning for One

Cooking for four is easy. Cooking for one is where the food gets wasted, the money slips away and the takeaway menu starts to look like a plan. This book shows you a calmer way. You learn a flexible weekly method built on slots instead of rigid menus, so a bad day never ruins the week. You get a stocked-kitchen checklist, smart shopping habits for small households, clear food-safety rules for cooling, storing and reheating, and four complete sample weeks. More than thirty simple recipes are written for one portion, with quantities, times and numbered steps, from ten-minute dinners to freezer batches and meals for the nights you cannot face a stove. Cook in short bursts, eat well, and stop throwing food away.

Imad Muratspahic is an independent author of practical how-to guides, technical handbooks, history and fiction. The books aim to be clear, honest and useful from the first page.