Hey all,
Ok so basically I'm useless when it comes to creativity in the kitchen.
Whilst many of my friends seem able to whip up delicious dishes from a handful of ingredients, I find myself unable to get past the humble toasted cheese sandwhich or packet-mix mac & cheese.
My dilemma is this - I need to cook for one, I live in a shared house with limited fridge/kitchen space, and I need to eat on a budget. What I find is that any time I endeavour to go a little bit creative or out there, I look up a recipe and find that I need half a tea-spoon of this, a handful of that, half a can of this etc- ingredients which I simply don't have lying around. By the time I invest in these ingredients I've doubled the cost of purchasing take-away and generally the left-over ingredients go to waste as I have nothing else to use them for!
Is there such thing as a "weekly meal plan for one" that I can buy, download, look-up in the library or anything? Such a plan would give me a shopping list and 6 recipes, and ensure that over the course of the week I ate 6 different meals and used up nearly all of the ingredients that I purchased... Does this exist?
Perhaps I'm dreaming, or perhaps just lacking inspiration... but honestly the idea of cooking my own meals seems expensive, tedious and wasteful at this point in time. Can somebody point me in the right direction?
EDIT: "Assistant Cook" is my title? I hardly deserve that
Ok so basically I'm useless when it comes to creativity in the kitchen.
Whilst many of my friends seem able to whip up delicious dishes from a handful of ingredients, I find myself unable to get past the humble toasted cheese sandwhich or packet-mix mac & cheese.
My dilemma is this - I need to cook for one, I live in a shared house with limited fridge/kitchen space, and I need to eat on a budget. What I find is that any time I endeavour to go a little bit creative or out there, I look up a recipe and find that I need half a tea-spoon of this, a handful of that, half a can of this etc- ingredients which I simply don't have lying around. By the time I invest in these ingredients I've doubled the cost of purchasing take-away and generally the left-over ingredients go to waste as I have nothing else to use them for!
Is there such thing as a "weekly meal plan for one" that I can buy, download, look-up in the library or anything? Such a plan would give me a shopping list and 6 recipes, and ensure that over the course of the week I ate 6 different meals and used up nearly all of the ingredients that I purchased... Does this exist?
Perhaps I'm dreaming, or perhaps just lacking inspiration... but honestly the idea of cooking my own meals seems expensive, tedious and wasteful at this point in time. Can somebody point me in the right direction?
EDIT: "Assistant Cook" is my title? I hardly deserve that