About Cooking-for-one-person.com

What is Cooking-for-one-person.com?

Cooking-for-one-person.com guides, instructs, and inspires the millions of people like you who are cooking for one. The art and science of cooking for one person is to be sensible, satisfying, and simplified.

How can Cooking-for-one-person.com help me?

Cooking-for-one-person.com is designed for you: the single person.

The kitchen poses challenges, frustrations, and burnt mistakes for the person cooking for one.

You can't get help. You can't find recipes. You don't want to be in the kitchen for hours - nor should you.

It puzzles me that many singles view eating/cooking as an inconvenience, as simply a chore of "refueling". Many spend more time putting clothes on their bodies than deciding what will go into their bodies. As adults, nobody feeds us except ourselves. We make the decisions as to what fills our stomachs.

I realize there are a number of myths and difficulties surrounding cooking for one person. It's all about you. We all live different lifestyles, so not everything will work for everyone, but everything is tailored for the person cooking for one.

There was so little information available for a person cooking for one. With millions of single people all cooking for themselves, I knew I was in good company - YOU!
This website is a product of my personal work, experience, and love. I do not believe you need to be condemned to subsist off of fast food or frozen dinners. You don't need to have a family to validate eating yummy foods to make your tummy happy.

Are you a chef?

I am not a chef, nor do I claim to be. Unless you have a chef or cook cooking for you, I designed this site with the realization that you will be doing the cooking. Individual cooking abilities will vary from person to person. Even though you are one person, you still deserve TLC.

You want to fix and eat good food, and your ambition may not to be a gourmet chef. Your mother or grandmother may not have been a chef or master cook, but their food was cooked with love and care.

Does Cooking-for-one-person.com follow a diet or health plan?

Cooking-for-one-person.com does not intentionally subscribe to a particular diet plan or health regime. Cooking-for-one-person.com's approach is simple: balanced, authentic, satisfying food.

The information on this website accentuates real, natural food in meals that reflect diversity, balance, and moderation. Basic, straight-forward ingredients are the backbone of the recipes.

If you have certain dietary concerns, you can fill in the personal gaps or exceptions. Regardless of individual dietary concerns, few things in life can affect your health and well-being more than good food.

I grew up in under the influence of my suburban family who ate local, wholesome, basic food before it became socially fashionable. I would pick cherries on an early July morning, and have homemade cherry pie for dinner that night. Summer afternoons of picking blackberries would result in chilly January mornings with jam-topped toast. My family had a generation-long relationship with a family farm acquiring fresh corn, peaches, beans, and squash as summer gave way to autumn.

I worked in the natural food industry for a short time, so this site accentuates whole, real foods without being unreasonable. If you live alone, you may not be able to "go back to the land" because your fourth floor apartment doesn't include a patch of green, but you can eat real food with real flavor and real inherent nutrients.

This website is your virtual handbook. Snoop around and come back often. The kitchen's always open for you!

Cheers,