Easy single person meals?

[Marc]

Buy a box of macaroni and some jarred tomato gravy.................Boil the water, drop in macaroni and wait about 10 minutes...........in the meantime, dump the red sauce (or whatever other kind of sauce you want to use) into another pot and cook on low heat..............drain macaroni into a collander then put back into the pot that it was cooked in. Dump cooked gravy into pot with cooked macaroni and stir it around...........Serve on plate and whatever you have leftover can be put into a plastic container and reheated at a later time. To reheat, just dump macaroni and gravy into a pan, put a little bit of water in and cook on low. Stir around and keep testing it (tasting) till it's hot enough for you! As a single guy, I LIVED on this! You can also substitute the macaroni for some frozen ravioli, or frozen tortellini.



Another thing you can do is invest in a small George Forman grill (another item that I couldn't live without when I was single!). They're usually pretty cheap and will evenly and perfectly cook a piece of meat (never tried to cook fish on it, but i'm sure you could) in a matter of a few minutes. For a side, you could cook a baked potato, or even some instant mashed potatoes (can buy a serving for 2 in a bag at any grocery store and they're usually very good). For a vegetable, you could do broccoli, or cauliflower, or string beans. Easiest way to do them would be to clean them, then dump them in a pot of boiling water. Cook for 5-8 minutes and drain in a collander. To add some zest, put the cooked vegetable in a pan and saute' with a little olive oil, some chopped garlic and some crushed red pepper (just make sure you go easy on the crushed red pepper)!



2 easy and quick meals that will be pretty easy on your wallet too!



Good luck!