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Written by Mona Baker, Working Woman
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyuCwCN78lA | | | For a look at a quintessential Girls Night Out palaver – with a delicious flashback included - take a look at this from “Sex and the City” on YouTube … what a hoot! | |
For me, knowledge brings comfort. With all the demands that living alone can place on a busy person like myself, it is frequently a challenge to find and use information that can help me in my journey to better health. Like a lot of people in the 21st century, I have come to rely on the Internet as the most prominent source for getting health information.
The Hungry Single is one of those sources. As a resource for single adults living alone who want to eat and live well, we want to help everyone who lands on this site to learn more about eating and feeling better. |
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Written by The Lone Wolf
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Editor's Note: "Bachelor Cooking Secrets Revealed" is the first in a series. It’s hard to be a confirmed bachelor. It is difficult to maintain a healthy, active lifestyle. It is difficult to go out (or entertain at home) and be able to eat right most of the time. It’s enough to make one very frustrated. But, then, I just remember that I am mostly successful at eating well, staying healthy and I still have my hair. So, what the hey! Life is grand! But at what cost? Maintaining liberty requires eternal vigilance. Maintaining a good eating regimen requires open-minded thinking, new habits, a bag of tricks and - most importantly - rules. So here’s , the first look at some of the Lone Wolf’s rules. Some of my tricks – and other secrets of bachelor cooking – will be revealed in a later installment. |
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Written by Rose, The Frugal Single
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 Being a frugal single on a limited income means I have to make my money go further without sacrificing quality in the food I buy. I like food, but I like good, fresh ingredients. No premixed, processed dinners and helpers for me. They contain way too much salt, as well as chemicals I can’t even pronounce. But I can be frugal while still eating healthy, fresh ingredients. I consider being frugal as not cheap, but as getting the most for my money and not being wasteful.
For instance, I buy packaged romaine lettuce hearts. This may seem expensive, but romaine hearts are ready to eat with no waste. They are normally sold three to a package. They taste better and are more nutritious than iceberg lettuce. Plus, they are much more economical than buying salad mix, which in my case generally goes bad before I finish the bag. |
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Written by Rose, The Frugal Single
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I've been single for over 10 years. During that time, I've discovered a number of ways to live more frugally. In this column, I'll share my tips and secrets. This edition features multiple uses for baking soda, and some tips for leftovers. |
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 Tip: One of the most frustrating and costly aspects of living alone and trying to eat well is trying to keep food fresh until you can eat all of it. So many foods are either in family-sized packages or they are generally only available in portions or sizes for 4 or more. One of these is “artisan” bread. How often have you been in the store or at a bakery and bought a loaf of freshly baked bread, taken it home and seen it spoil in a few days – you just cannot (or will not) eat that much bread before it goes bad or gets dry. Here is a tip from the world-class bakers at Central Market in Texas: Refrigeration will dry out bread but freezing will not. I learned this when I just had to have a warm loaf of parmesan bread (with Argentine parmesan baked in) from  Central Market but was afraid it would go dry in the fridge or get moldy before I could eat it. The baker gave me the tip about freezing bread. I cut into single servings, placed them in plastic storage bags and froze them for later use. To learn more about what some call the best grocery store in the world click here.Related Articles: |
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 Preparing something as simple and so emotionally charged as “Scrambled Eggs for One” is doubly difficult because it is for one instead of two and – unless you bake or eat eggs regularly – a single person has a hard time using all of the eggs in a carton. Unless you try a healthy alternative like a liquid egg product. They come in pre-measured or just egg whites and they have a refrigerator life that will allow the health conscious single to buy right and use the product when they want to. Check them out here. From Breakfast Matters → Scrambled Eggs: Yellow and White Stay Bright
 Remember to place your chopped tomato and cucumber at the bottom of the container and then cover with salad dressing. Then, when you get to work you can just place a paper plate on top of the opened container, turn it over and Presto! Your dressing just flows over the crisp greens. If you do not have a plate, then keep the container closed, turn it over, shake, put right side up and remove the lid on your perfectly tossed salad! Enjoy! From Lunch Matters → Details for Lunch
 I love cold chicken, so after I prepared a curry for the poached chicken breasts, I took the remaining parts and then stored them in my trusty Glad container for use later in the week. And while there are many, many ways to eat cold chicken – including standing up over the sink – there is one special sauce that stands above the rest for cold chicken. It is hot (she hated hot sauce too) but nothing sings like a cold drumstick dragged through this ... my favorite … but really, any good hot sauce will do the trick. From Dinner Matters → Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner
When eating leftover Tex-Mex Pie, spoon out a portion in a bowl and then add a little salsa and cheese and then nuke to taste. When preparing a good, nutritious Tex-Mex Pie with my recipe you can substitute any of the ingredients above with your favorite brand or flavor. For example, a sweet Vidalia onion instead of shallots is a great choice. But please note there is one ingredient that CANNOT be substituted: Fritos®. (Nope, restaurant style corn chips or even name brand corn chips cannot be used--at least not if you want it to be authentic!) From Leftover Matters → One-dish Wonder
After I emerged from my swamp of self-pity I managed to actually muster the energy and focus to search the Web and learn all about Snickerdoodles. Wow! Who knew? Who knew that not only are there hundreds of recipes (click here to get Betty Crocker’s) but that there actually is a very inspiring fictional character from the great Southern storyteller, Otis Ham, who first introduced the pee-wee superhero early in the last century. I still haven’t figured out if the peanut-butter variety of the cookie is the patronymic for the hero’s peanut plane or vice versa. To learn more click on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickerdoodle. Wow! From Snacks Matter → My Adventure in Cookies Related Articles: |
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