Singles who struggle for greenery - rocket and parsley seem to keep better than delicate salad leaf mixes. But best of all is lambs lettuce - the bags sold in supermarkets are wee plantlets rather than cut leaves, so they're perfectly happy for a couple of weeks in the crisper box.
Rolls keep longer and taste better defrosted if a loaf of bread is too large - but only if you have freezer space. Chiming in with all those who don't. I have a tiny icebox in a correspondingly smaller fridge.
It's currently full of individual portions of meat and fish and a block of mince (all of which are now erratic in supply thanks to those utter bleeping bleepity bleeps south of the border); also some batch-cooked lasagne and bolognese sauce, blanched broccoli, and some brambles for porridge. But ofc shitty rentals with crappy fridges often lack central heating too, and the icebox will stop working as soon as the room temp heads towards zero. Have to keep a close eye on it.
I no longer mind eating the same thing several days in a row, especially if it's something delicious I've cooked myself. I think ignoring convention helps. We fetishise an ideal of food and family which has little to so with lived reality or healthy eating. I start with nutrition and work from there.
Long Covid gives a whole new perspective. Month 21, no UKgov support, living in a country which lacks the power to close its border and implement its preferred policies of zero Covid & universal basic income. For the first 9 months I could barely stand at the stove for the 5 minutes it takes to scramble some eggs. I would chop veg one day, assemble them into a big pot of food the next, then eat it for five days. Wasting hard won food and democratic agency: two privileges I simply don't have.