A healthy menu for a single person

Getting fresh veggies near my home is a bit difficult. Have to go a long way off to get celery, red onions and red cabbage to the Supermarket. And there they do not give small quantitites and the quantity that I get would be enough to feed my neighbours too! Am trying out some soy products now and yes I go make salads sometimes and sometimes a combination of all leftovers from the refrigerator!

I do not have a servant at home so I am the lone person to finish whatever I cook. I dont like to idea of throwing away food. Yes cooking for one is a very boring task and I have no option as of now!!!!

Yes. I know. In fact we find it difficult to cook only for two of us--myself and my wife. Some days we take from mess wherein it works out cheaper. So you can try for a change once in a week.

The idea of making patties of the meat is great. May be add some green peas to to. I am wondering why I did not think of it before. Yes when we were a family of 5 I would make patties very often. I have never made burittos so dont know how to make them. May be I should look on the net for the recipe and try it out. Thanks for giving me a new idea.

I have been learning as I go! I have made patties with grated cheese in them and froze them. Burritos are easy. Fry up some burger meat and season it with a package taco seasoning mix. Take large flour tortillas...lay a mound of meat in the center, add grated cheese and spread it out in a rectangle in the center of the tortilla. Take the bottom end of the circle tortilla and fold it up to the end of the meat, just overlapping slightly. Then take one side and fold it over to cover the meat and then just roll the rest on over enclosing the flap of tortilla you just folded over. This way it keeps the meat inside and it doesn't fall out when you eat it. Kind of like it makes a "envelope" out of the tortilla. Then, tightly wrap in saran wrap. and place in freezer. When you want one, take one out, remove the saran wrap and wrap the buritto in a napkin and nuke it for about 1,1/2 minute. This will change depending on the size of your buritto and the power of your nuker-wave. But mine...1,1/2 minute. And you can always put it back in if not hot enough. Then when done...chow down! I made these when the kids were in school and would come home and want a snack (I worked). These were filling, theyloved them and they were easy for them to heat up with not worries of using the stove or making a mess. And just enough to hold them till supper! } Give it a try! I still do these and when My son comes over and sees them...he knows what to do! I enjoy that as I know he is remembering his childhood and I am a part of his memory..and he will one day pass it on to his kids. A 'when I was little, my mom used to....."

I was never fond of freezing foods and reheating them and eating. But now I seem to be left with no option but making good use of my refrigerator. I do boil a lot of stuff and freeze it so that it saves me the time of cooking every day. But have not tried freezing soups.

Getting all the ingredients for a soup or salad is very cumbersome. We do not get very small quantities here and buying too much is such a waste. I do sometimes take food from a restaurant but not very often because I dont like eating outside food too often.

Yes I know it is not good to always have frozen food. But at the same time I cannot cook just a little amount of food nor do I like throwing away food. And secondly when I come home tired from work it is so much easier just having the ready food from the fridge. It is too tiring cooking after a hard days work in Office.

I do not get tinned stuff near my house. In fact I would have to travel for atleast two hours to the nearest supermarket where I would get tinned food so that is out of the question at all. I am having problems with fresh fruit and fresh vegetables because I do not get it anywhere close to my house. May be buying raw meats and boiling and freezing small quantities would be a good option.

I keep doing all kinds of weird combinations with the left overs in the fridge. Sometimes add some tomato sauce or else a fresh tomato to make a change and make it look like its cooked fresh. My colleagues laugh at me when I tell them of the combinations that I have eaten. That may be because they have not tried anything like this themselves because they have not had the opportunity of being alone.

I mix 2/3 left over veggies at times and make a new one out of the concoction. But have not tried mixing the left over with fresh veggies. Should try this out and with a scrambled egg for breakfast is a good idea. May be I will try it out soon.

I will not be too comfortable with a paying guest accomodation. And besides such accomodation is a bit difficult to get in our city. And whatever is available is just too expensive and beyond my reach.

I dont like the semi cooked meals available in the market so I do not buy them. I prefer cooking my own food. I do include rice and potatoes in my meals but not much of pasta. I dont get a chance to buy fish because it is not available nearby and have to go a long way to buy nice fresh fish.