Recipes / cookbooks for single people, that don’t require many obscure ingredients?

[sunshine1037]

As the title says… I am single, and I really, really, REALLY need to start cooking more healthy meals for myself rather than rely on takeaways or pasta or pizza / anything I can shove in the oven.

Do you have any recommendations for cookbooks / food bloggers / websites / insta pages etc etc that ideally are:

• One person recipes
• Healthy / show calories
• Simple enough to make without a thousand ingredients that I will just end up wasting

Jamie Oliver five ingredients. Recipes are for more than one person but easily scale down and really easy to make.

Not quite what you asked for but we really enjoy Simply Cook meals. You buy the fresh ingredients and you get 3 flavour pots per meal. Always easy to cook and super tasty. For example we have courgette linguine for tea. You buy pasta, courgettes and ricotta then add the 3 pots when the recipe tells you. All meals are enough for 2 so you could just have the same 2 days running or tge left overs for lunch.

I would highly recommend Miguel Barclay. All the recipes are very simple, most of the books give instructions for a single portion, and the ingredients are usually used multiple times across the book so you don't have to have the same meal multiple days in a row (but equally can often be scaled up if you wanted to). I have used at least 75% of the recipes I the books I have and have made a significant proportion multiple time, so they have become my go to for planning my weeks meals now

Forgot to say that they unfortunately don't show calories. But as they are simple recipes it would be pretty easy to work out

Delia's One is Fun book is old skool but very good for getting an idea. No calorie counts though, sorry.

My go-to recipe book for quick, easy stuff is the Green Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer (the GRT is veggie / vegan, but she has written a series of books under the 'Roasting Tin' umbrella and they're all good).

Really good food, no expensive or faffy ingredients or methods and can be scaled up / down easily.

I find meat, carb, and a few vegetables to be easy and quick for two of us and my DGM does similar for one. So beef (or whatever) strips and veg in a stir fry with noodles, or in a wrap. Sausage/steak mash and veg. Burger with salad. Etc. I mix that with cooking a big pot of chilli or bolognese or curry that will last a few days or can be frozen.

Might be a bit healthier than you’re thinking but the Joe Wicks books are mostly for one portion, not calorie counted but there are low carb and higher card sections and lots of options.

Yes! One pot, one portion on insta
https://instagram.com/goodfoodmood__?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

I bought this for my mum when she started having to cook meals for one.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0954317939/ref=ppxyoodtbbsearchasinn_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Second Delia Smith's One is Fun

The little square BBC Good Food Magazine books might work for you? Lots of books with different themes, mostly keep things quite simple, and I think they do have nutritional info at the bottom of each recipe.

Have a browse on Amazon. My son is a uni student and has some of the NOSH books. Simple techniques and ingredients. He tends to cook for 4 and freezes half in individual portions to take as lunches. When we cook for those of use still at home we tend to do the same a favourite is lemon and oregano traybake from BBC good food website. All gets slung in one tray do some broccoli to have with it and eat the rest for lunch the next day. Yummy

Nutracheck means you can work out nutrition for yourself