I lived alone for about 15 years before I met my husband. As others have said, your freezer is your best friend, both because it saves you from throwing a lot of food out, but also because all the food you froze when you did cook will be there for when you can't be bothered or aren't in the mood. On a day you're in the mood to cook, whip up a batch of spaghetti sauce, thick with meat & mushrooms and freeze it in zip lock bags of one or two servings. Go ahead and buy the value pack of steaks, saving money, and take the time to wrap them carefully against freezer burn before you freeze them for later. Another friend, along with the freezer, is soup. Soup is your very good friend. Keep a good supply of canned or frozen chicken and beef stock on hand, and an amazing number of your leftovers can be turned into the next night's meal without eating leftovers every time you turn around. Use your imagination. That bit of leftover steak? Saute some onions and garlic, add some beef stock, the steak (diced) and the container of leftover veggies from the day before, and maybe some chopped cabbage or frozen peas...whatever...simmer, top it off with grated cheese and have a nice roll or crusty baguette with it. That crusty baguette? Well, put the leftover in the fridge. The next night, when you roast a small chicken or broil some chicken thighs, set aside the leftover meat for tomorrow's dinner...toast the baguette halves, lay good cheddar or Swiss cheese on one side and the thinly sliced leftover chicken on the other...toast under the broiler until the cheese bubbles, and throw on some tomatoes & onions...maybe some bbq sauce or salsa. That and a salad. Mmmm. Another thing to do is make sure that you keep some healthier versions of convenience foods around the house so that you have that as an option on days when you just don't even want to deal with cooking, leftovers or no. If you have some microwavable meals, canned soups, instant meals etc around, you won't be as likely to just say "heck with it" and go out to grab fast food. One thing to remember. You will, if you cook for yourself, have times when you throw good food away because you either got tired of it or just forgot it. None of us like to do that, but remember that you could be spending much more money than you throw out by constantly eating out.

We goto Dinner Done!!!! We do this as a couple and I go when my wife is away, so it does work for a single person!! Each month they have around 14 meal selections. At each station is a meal. Everything u need to make the meal is at that station. All cut up, fat trimmed off, correct measurement spoons in spices, super easy, no clean up!!!! Everythin gincluding the storage containers is there, included in the price!! Of course there are other companies that do this, we have just used this one!! And you can put how many servings into a package!! So its very convenient, and healthy!! Most are straight from the freezer to the oven!! as well its a great place to meet other people. A chicken breast meal, comes with 4 to 6 chicken breats. Each meal is suppose to feed bewtween 4 to 6 people. A minimum ordfer is 8 meal selections, and each meal gives 4 to 6 servings, so close to 48 single meals!!! Belive it works out to just over $3 a serving. We love it, makes suppers so much more relaxing, get to meet new people, and no clean up,lol. I have heard some of these companies do singles events!! Here is a link that might be useful: Dinner Done

Thanks! I emailed Kevin those suggestions. I also noticed that my link to Yelp is a different page now from when I linked it - different restaurants and different photos. I guess it gets updated hourly, depending on new posts. It looks like there are some good Middle Eastern, Szechuan, and Japanese restaurants that he might like. Right now I think he has other things on his mind. There are some strange things on Facebook right now regarding this issue. He might have to go back next week, and I told him that if he does, he needs to make sure that Sony gets the hotel reservations in advance so that he will not have to commute more than Monday morning and Friday evening. This Friday we are invited to a book signing that my friend Mark is having at Hollywood Heritage (across the street from the Hollywood Bowl) for his new book, which he co-authored with the granddaughter of Cecil B. DeMille. (They were both on CBS Sunday Morning last Sunday promoting it.) However, with traffic the way it is, Kevin won't be able to make it, and I do not want to battle the Hollywood Bowl traffic by myself. No one I know wants to go through that traffic, and so I will have to see Mark another time. I just noticed that Mark will be at Book Soup this Thursday, and so maybe I can go there by myself to get the book. West Hollywood is not too far for me to drive, and the traffic might be less on a Thursday. This post was edited by publickman on Wed, Dec 10, 14 at 1:54

I like the idea of having enough to share, but there is no one earby to share with, except Joann, and she shares hers with me. I do pack portions and stick them in the freezer for anoter time, works or me. Some things are impossible to make for just one.