Single-person households make up nearly a quarter of the households in Australia and this proportion is rapidly increasing. Yet the majority of cookbooks present recipes that serve 4-8 people.
To me, that means eating the same dish 3 nights in a row only to throw out the remainder of the dish as I just can’t face the dish again!
My other option is to freeze the leftovers for another time. However, years of freezing for another time have taught me that another time never comes, when I clean out the freezer three months later and throw out a collection of untouched frozen leftovers.
While in theory, it’s easy to just ‘quarter the recipe’, in practice that is not as easy and becomes a little too much on a busy weeknight when you’re trying to cook a healthy dinner for yourself after a long day at work.
When you’re trying to beat the voice in your head that says, in very caring and convincing tones, “Why bother, it’s just you, it’s too much work, grilled cheese on toast will do for you.”
The realisation that small households need their own recipes has changed my life. Not only am I eating better and more healthily it has led to the development of this site, but me writing the Cooking for You and Me cookbook for Thermomix and my new book, with Dr Susan Rowe, The Power of Baking with Mindful Intent.
Many of these recipes I’ve designed for a Thermomix as it makes life so easy and it’s what I have on my kitchen bench, however, I will now be posting Conventional as well as Thermomix recipes with added nutritional information.
In my new course Connecting to Your Inner Cook I’ll be teaching how to create recipes sized just4You to match your taste. More information here.