Wait, but cooking for one sucks. Cooking for 10 sucks harder, but cooking for 2-4 is better than for 1 imo, unless you want to eat the same dinner a few nights in a row
I might be biased because I was raised in an extended family and cook for a living, but I find 8-16 servings to be the ideal amount of cooking. You’re already doing the prep, so utilizing the equipment doesn’t require extra cleaning or extra cooking time, and if there’s fewer mouths than servings, it reduces future cooking needs.
I usually cook enough to have 2-3 dinners out of it and then “leapfrog” throughout the week so ill have dinner 1, dinner 2, dinner 1 again, and so on. Works pretty well and I don’t have to do as much dishes.
That is truly wild to me. I’m the exact opposite. If I’m the only one, I have no motivation to cook - I’ll just order food or graze until I’m full. If there are other people I’m suddenly very interested in making dinner. But perhaps that’s a result of me living alone
I’m a big fan of meal prep. With a freezer you can freeze the extra portions and then thaw things overnight from your built stash. Without I used to just eat the same several days. I don’t mind and it was just me :)
Wait, but cooking for one sucks. Cooking for 10 sucks harder, but cooking for 2-4 is better than for 1 imo, unless you want to eat the same dinner a few nights in a row
I might be biased because I was raised in an extended family and cook for a living, but I find 8-16 servings to be the ideal amount of cooking. You’re already doing the prep, so utilizing the equipment doesn’t require extra cleaning or extra cooking time, and if there’s fewer mouths than servings, it reduces future cooking needs.
But then there’s the dreaded wasting of food when it goes bad…
Modern refrigerators and freezers solve that problem.
Freeze what you won’t eat that week, the rest goes in the fridge.
Now you’ve covered some far future meals too and you’re not gonna get bored eating the same thing for 10 meals straight
I usually cook enough to have 2-3 dinners out of it and then “leapfrog” throughout the week so ill have dinner 1, dinner 2, dinner 1 again, and so on. Works pretty well and I don’t have to do as much dishes.
This is what I do, sometimes I’ll make 4 portions out of 1 dinner when it’s something like curry and store 3 in the freezer.
I currently have 8 meals ready to go that I cooked myself, I can go a whole week without cooking, it’s so much easier cooking for 1.
life hack: do more exercise so you can eat larger portions, then you can get the best of both worlds while also being swole.
Nah, I want to cook for just me. Adding in even 1 other person means I no longer want to cook.
That is truly wild to me. I’m the exact opposite. If I’m the only one, I have no motivation to cook - I’ll just order food or graze until I’m full. If there are other people I’m suddenly very interested in making dinner. But perhaps that’s a result of me living alone
It’s one of the reasons I enjoy living alone. I can eat what I want, when I want, and don’t need to consider anyone else’s preferences.
I’m a big fan of meal prep. With a freezer you can freeze the extra portions and then thaw things overnight from your built stash. Without I used to just eat the same several days. I don’t mind and it was just me :)