Women's Health Healthy Meals for One (or Two) Cookbook

Informationen zum Autor The Editors of Women's Health with Katie Walker Klappentext Take care of your taste buds, your wallet, and your health by prepping and cooking your way to healthy eating every day of the week with a cookbook designed with just one (or two) diners in mind! In the US, we eat nearly half of our meals as a party of one, with only the TV or social media followers for company. But with The Women's Health Healthy Meals for One (or Two) Cookbook, you don't have to wait until you have 2.5 kids and a spouse around the dining table to prepare simple, fresh, and nutritious meals that taste as good as they are for your health. So step away from the microwave, ditch the delivery, and get cooking! This book is filled with inventive recipes that you can make ahead, pull together on a minute's notice, or take your time to create, all for the most important person in your life: you. With shopping guides, meal-prep plans for every type of week, a kitchen tool guide, tips for a well-stocked pantry, and advice for making leftovers seem new, The Women's Health Healthy Meals for One (or Two) Cookbook is not just a cookbook: it's your new cooking bible. So whether you are prepping quick batches of grab-and-go meals for a hectic workweek or sipping rose´ with a date as you create an impressive dish from scratch to eat together, you have found your indispensable guide for simple, portioned-out, healthful eats you can make yourself. Zusammenfassung Take care of your taste buds! your wallet! and your health by prepping and cooking your way to healthy eating every day of the week with a cookbook designed with just one (or two) diners in mind! In the US! we eat nearly half of our meals as a party of one! with only the TV or social media followers for company. But with The Women's Health Healthy Meals for One (or Two) Cookbook ! you don't have to wait until you have 2.5 kids and a spouse around the dining table to prepare simple! fresh! and nutritious meals that taste as good as they are for your health. So step away from the microwave! ditch the delivery! and get cooking! This book is filled with inventive recipes that you can make ahead! pull together on a minute's notice! or take your time to create! all for the most important person in your life: you. With shopping guides! meal-prep plans for every type of week! a kitchen tool guide! tips for a well-stocked pantry! and advice for making leftovers seem new! The Women's Health Healthy Meals for One (or Two) Cookbook is not just a cookbook: it's your new cooking bible. So whether you are prepping quick batches of grab-and-go meals for a hectic workweek or sipping rose´ with a date as you create an impressive dish from scratch to eat together! you have found your indispensable guide for simple! portioned-out! healthful eats you can make yourself. ...

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The Editors of Women's Health with Katie Walker

Klappentext

Take care of your taste buds, your wallet, and your health by prepping and cooking your way to healthy eating every day of the week with a cookbook designed with just one (or two) diners in mind!

In the US, we eat nearly half of our meals as a party of one, with only the TV or social media followers for company. But with The Women's Health Healthy Meals for One (or Two) Cookbook, you don't have to wait until you have 2.5 kids and a spouse around the dining table to prepare simple, fresh, and nutritious meals that taste as good as they are for your health. So step away from the microwave, ditch the delivery, and get cooking!

This book is filled with inventive recipes that you can make ahead, pull together on a minute's notice, or take your time to create, all for the most important person in your life: you. With shopping guides, meal-prep plans for every type of week, a kitchen tool guide, tips for a well-stocked pantry, and advice for making leftovers seem new, The Women's Health Healthy Meals for One (or Two) Cookbook is not just a cookbook: it's your new cooking bible.

So whether you are prepping quick batches of grab-and-go meals for a hectic workweek or sipping rosé with a date as you create an impressive dish from scratch to eat together, you have found your indispensable guide for simple, portioned-out, healthful eats you can make yourself.

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Introduction
Cooking for One
 
When was the last time you cooked for yourself? We don’t mean the last time you heated up a microwaveable meal, or even the last time you threw together a stir-fry. When was the last time you really cooked for yourself—when you thought about what you wanted to eat, went out and bought the ingredients to make it, and put together a simple and complete meal for one?
 
It’s a scary idea, making a meal for one. For many people, it’s as daunting as eating out alone at a restaurant. And for women, it’s particularly daunting. It’s not because we’re not capable of planning, shopping, and cooking—of course we are! And it’s not because of money—cooking at home is cheaper and often faster than takeout. It’s because we’re just not used to putting that much energy into something that is just for us. Most of us will happily (if not skillfully) cook a fun meal for friends or roommates, but we’re constantly putting ourselves on the back burner (so to speak!).
 
It doesn’t help that most recipes out there in cookbooks and online serve four to six, or eight, or even ten! It’s not uncommon to find a delicious smoothie recipe that serves four. Four! Who makes smoothies for early-morning parties of four (and if you are, we are going to need an invite!)? That means that when you find a great recipe to try, you either have to remember how to use fractions to work the recipe down to two servings, or you get to eat the same meal six times in one week. Would you ever serve someone else the same boring dinner six nights in a row? Of course not. So why would you do that to yourself?
 
All of these multi-serving recipes are particularly out of touch because more Americans1 than ever before are living on their own. In fact, more women between the ages of 24 and 36 live alone than with roommates. And while living on your own is great—No sharing milk! Unlimited bathroom time!—it can take a toll on your health if you aren’t careful.2 A recent study found that people who live on their own have low diversity in the food they eat; consume fewer fruits, vegetables and fish than people in multi-person households; and are more likely to have an unhealthy diet—popcorn for dinner, anyone? Since fresh fruits and veggies are the foods that go bad the fastest, and are harder to finish as one person, it’s not a surprise they get passed over at the grocery store. And it doesn’t help that getting dinner (or lunch, or snacks, or bagels) delivered is easier than ever. We’ll get into the details of nutrition and cost of cooking for yourself later, but what’s becoming obvious is that we really are treating ourselves worse than we treat others. Much worse.
 
This book is here to help. Whether you’re a first time cook or a recipe addict who just needs to master cooking for one, we have 175 fabulous recipes to get you started on the path to better health, more money in the bank, and tastier food. This is a book about radical self-care, about focusing on what your body needs, what you want to eat, and how to support everything else you have going on by adapting and prepping for your week in advance.
 
So pull the sweaters out of your oven, Carrie Bradshaw, and embrace your inner Monica. You’re going to get cooking and, after a few weeks of planning, prepping, and preparing food for yourself, much of it will become second nature. Like anything else, cooking for yours…