The Challenge Of Cooking For Two
If you are looking for a real challenge, go from cooking for a family of six, to cooking for two, the kids are off to college, or have their own families. However, you still find yourself with enough leftovers for an army! What do you do? Well, you reduce your portions and make smaller amounts of food.
Cooking for two is also a great weight loss help, because now you have no extra food, only extra portions. The place to start for this is in the market, choose foods that are easy to divide or come in sizes that are made for one or two. Chops, chicken pieces, steaks, sausage, hamburger and fish fillets are a good place to start.
If you miss the old standby roast, get the smallest one you can, then if it is still too big, divide it into two pieces and freeze one for later use. Leftover roast is great in soups
and stews too, and again it eliminates leftovers.
It is easy to buy fresh fruits and veggies by the piece, except in the case of broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and even lettuce. There are ways around this: Buy broccoli and cauliflower in stir fry packages, you can take out whichever one you want and save the rest for later.
Lettuce comes in packages prepared for salads now, and shredded cabbage for cole-slaw is great for corned beef and cabbage. Whenever you can, buy the smaller packages, as cooking for two does not require large quantities. However, this isn’t always the best way to go if you are on a budget.
Cooking for two requires a great deal more planning ahead; for instance, plan to use extra canned vegetables in a soup or stew. Once again, most vegetables are available frozen, in which case you can remove the amount you need and leave the rest frozen.
Creativity and advanced planning are the main requirements for cooking for two. It requires smaller portions, but you will find it extremely cost effective when you finally get it down to a fine art.
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September 26th, 2007 at 3:48 am a
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