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After 20 years of marriage and a couple before that of cohabitation I can't remember single life. Work pulls me away month at a time, several times a year every couple years, and I can't wait to get home and ask my wife what's for supper.

I love to eat but damn I hate cooking. When I'm on my own it's meat, booze, and a milkshake once in awhile.

About every 2 weeks I'll make a huge pot of soup, stew or chili and get about 12-15 24 once freezer safe canning jars out of it. For instance, right now I have a mix of beef chili, cajun chicken, sausage and shrimp soup, pork chili verde, and beef stew in the freezer. I'll take 5 out of the freezer on Saturday and put them in the fridge. They're thawed out by Monday morning and I put them all in the fridge at workfor lunch.

For dinner, it's take out, something on the grill or whatever. The soups are great because I can but meat and veggies in bulk and when on sale and get 2 weeks worth of lunch out of a pot. And the canning jars keep stuff forever in that freezer. Otherwise, you're buying a little of this and that all the time. It's especially helpful when I go on something like a keto diet. I can make weeks worth of compliant meals on a Sunday.

I like Campbells tomato soup too. Other brands can be gross.

Usually oatmeal and orange juice for breakfast; occasionally eggs and either chorizo or bacon.
When I'm working I'll normally eat out for lunch, often with a friend or client; a time to relax and socialize a bit.
Dinner I'll almost always cook at home (usually starting with chicken, fish, ground turkey, sometimes pasta, Italian sausage or brats. If I'm too tired to cook, or too late, I'll heat a frozen dinner. I like to cook and have developed my own recipes from scratch.

Preparing food is a celebration of life; nearly the same with obtaining the ingredients.

If I'm really feelin' sporty... Hormel Chili with Beans.

I'm a decent cook. Been on my own for 23 yrs and did most of the cooking before that because the x was too lazy. Use the crock pot lots. Due a new grill.

I was single for over 20 years though I'm not now. I pretty much did everything. I got stuff at the grocery store deli, did some fast food, bought canned and packaged food, but most of the time I cooked for myself. I'm not a great cook but I neither starved to death nor poisoned myself. As my sister would say, it made a turd. I like cooking but I hate cleanup so often I'd make big batches of stuff, then freeze individual servings so I could pull 'em out and nuke 'em at need.

Today my GF does most, but not all, of the cooking. Self defense maybe. I'm not going to complain though, I'm just going to STFU and run the fork she hands me.

Tom

I am marred now but when I was single I cooked most of my meals. About the only time I would eat out was when I was on the road.

Coffee and a handful of nuts for breakfast and I eat out for dinner usually. A couple of nights with friends and the rest it’s just me. There’s a couple of decent restaurants within 15 miles. The Thia food restaurant is getting my business about five out of seven nights. Lots of veggies and spicy

This is a joke thread, right? The answer is obvious.





$2.68 at the grocery store. Six minutes in the microwave and you are home free! No dishes to wash, only a spoon.
And, an hour later, you drink 2 beers and still are hungry, simply cook another one.

Poor bastards..... 25th this year and every single year better than the last. Couldn’t imagine going through this life alone.

Been making big batches as long as I can remember.
Stews, pots of beans, chicken and rice, spaghet-roni,
etc.
Leftovers go in containers and refrigerator or freezer.
Had leftover chicken and mashed taters tonight.
I buy the $4.00 +- bags of leg quarters and split
em up into freezer bags. Good for chicken and
rice, dumplings, stews, grill, skillet full of grease, etc.
Tonight and last night was cleaned up and fat and
excess skin and tails etc. removed, covered with
spices and " marinated " in the refer, and cooked
in a covered pyrex dish in the micro.
Most trouble was cleaning up my hands covered
with spicy chicken greasy juice

Plenty of ways to get there. Way better than
patronizing McSalty's

Before I was married I ate in town a lot.

Cooked some...but nothing like now.

After we got married we still ate in town a fair bit.


Nearly every meal now is cooked at home. 95 percent of those from scratch.

Unless things have changed Wal Mart is where to buy MC dinners.
I was buying them for my father after mom died.

I’m a microwave and paper plate kind of guy, never been particular about what I eat.

No breakfast just hot green tea w/ milk.

Lunch whole meat yoghurt with a pint of blueberries or
granola and old fashioned oatmeal made using a thermos of hot green tea instead of milk and/or water.

Supper:
tortillas, eggs, cheese and tomatoes w/green sauce or
eggs on wheat bread w/mustard or
Jalapeño sausage and mustard potato salad or
sugar free PB and J on 12 grain bread

All fast, easy and not too expensive.

Always ate well, cooked for myself. Grandma taught me a fair bit. Hell, caught my wife by cooking dinner the first time she came to the house. Fried pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes(real ones) and white gravy, and some good sweet corn I put up the year before from the garden. And fresh homemade bread. Sun tea to wash it down. She was done...

Nowadays, we split the cooking. She does what she excels at, I do what I am good at. Works out pretty good, nobody we know ever turns down a chance to eat at our house. Few weeks ago, I took a batch of fresh cinnamon rolls to church. They disappeared fast, folks were complementing my wife about them, and you could see the shock on their faces when she informed them I had made the rolls. Like a man is supposed to be helpless or something.😂

Need some more tube steak?

hahaha

Tube steak boogie!!

That can go on the confused/mis-heard lyrics thread. 🤣

Gee I'm shocked some of these fine gents live alone....can't imagine why....

I cook a lotta' stuff that I can freeze in single or double portions, i.e. pot roast, pasta meat sauce, TX chili, ragú, brisket, stew, split pea/lentil, etc. That way I can take one out and have a meal for 2 nights. I also cook during the week but not as much. I'll usually cook a nice meal when I have my daughter - stuff like meatloaf, steak, fish, chicken, etc. I also cook a fair amount of messikan and I-talian. Burgers and such as well.

I also keep a limited amount of ground beef, chicken, sausage, bacon, etc. in the freezer, but I have limited space in my small freezer.