Thread: Single Hotrodder's food

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Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Just this past Xmas my Son Don got me a small crockpot

I'm with Don on this one, Duane. For a few years after my employer (a now defunct airline) went down the tube I fed my family by being an itinerant construction worker. I Learned fast that a man can exist on peanut butter and sardines for only so long. A pipefitter buddy I worked with told me "Fool! Get a crock pot". I did.

You can drop in a little roast (maybe a little cornish game hen on Sunday) with a potato and whatever seasonings grab you, and plug 'er in. That'll take you ten minutes maybe, then grab the lunchbox and hit the door.

They even give you a cook book with the crock pot.

Then, maybe ten hours later (it's just about impossible to over-cook in one of those things) you drag your weary hiney through the door and a great aroma hits you in the nose. DINNER IS SERVED! You might even want to invite a lady over.

But be advised ...... be sure to plug the pot in before you go. Raw beef or chicken isn't too good. In that case you then go and open another can of sardines.

Good luck!


Jim

Jim I do most ofl that. I have a small crock pot and a great stove. Just seems that I end up like Dave with stuff in the freezer growing strange fuzz. I hate eating the same thing two or three days in a row. Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to learn to cut back on my portions. So far I haven't forgotten to plug the crock pot in. But there is always the first time for everything.

Duane - another option is to head on over to your favorite big box book store (Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc) and head for the cook book aisle. Then check out cook books featuring "cooking for one or two people". I am sure they got them, cause they got everything else. If you don't have a store nearby, go to one of the online stores, like Amazon.com, etc. They got'em. As well as QVC.com (they also have all kinds of neat kitchen toys). Just remember though, STAY OUT of the car magazine aisle, especially the one with hot rod magazines.

Originally Posted by mopar34

Duane - another option is to head on over to your favorite big box book store (Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc) and head for the cook book aisle. Then check out cook books featuring "cooking for one or two people". I am sure they got them, cause they got everything else. If you don't have a store nearby, go to one of the online stores, like Amazon.com, etc. They got'em. As well as QVC.com (they also have all kinds of neat kitchen toys). Just remember though, STAY OUT of the car magazine aisle, especially the one with hot rod magazines.

RATHER THAN CHECK THE BOOK STORE,I WOULD SUGGEST LOOKING FOR A GOOD LOOKING COOK.DUANE MUST BE FELLING BETTER.

Don In Austin

Duane, to go back to your original point, the food industry has responded to more and more people being single, with small portion packages of food. Things like "soup for one" etc. The problem is you pay almost as much for these little packages as the big ones.

I usually did the cooking in our family because of the hours my ex wife worked, plus I like to cook. Now that I am alone I have learned to recycle food, so that if I make a roast one day and have left overs, I make a pot roast the next. And, as I mentioned before, I love leftovers as most food like chili and stew improves overnight in the fridge......the flavors have a chance to blend together.

I've also found out that the old adage "two can live as cheaply as one" is BS. When I have been with a lady my food bills were a lot higher because of having to make something different every night, or going out to eat a lot. That "wining and dining" doesn't come cheap. (more money for car parts now )

Don

Originally Posted by Don Dalton

RATHER THAN CHECK THE BOOK STORE,I WOULD SUGGEST LOOKING FOR A GOOD LOOKING COOK.DUANE MUST BE FELLING BETTER.

Don In Austin

Actual, Don, this whole medical thing is making me fiesty.

A crock pot, a fry pan and a counter top oven are really all a single guy needs along with a coffee maker if you are a lover of that brew. A bread machine can help with a taste change. That nice big fancy oven is great too, if you have friends and relatives over but while I was single, I had 2 kids in college plus a bunch of bills that my ex very kindly left me and the fact that the stove oven is an energy hog($$$) led me to use only small cookers that heated up quickly. I have a tendency to look at food labels as well as my son was (is?) allergic to artificial colors and flavors and years of doing that has me trained and my wife (current) has taken up the crusade as a well. But I'm not a fanatic - as can easily be seen by my dunlap