Hello everyone. Chef Marty Rich here. Sitting here on the front porch and decided to shoot you quick video for you. I just got back from the store. I was in the produce aisle, prowling around. I was in Tallahassee and the selection there is much better than it is where we are. We are about 40 miles outside of town, and sometimes the produce can be a little scary.

I was talking to this woman and we got to chatting about fruit and how to tell if something is ripe. So I asked here what her biggest culinary challenge was. And she said, “Oh, I am a drive through queen.” She is a single woman; her husband has already passed away. So she said, “What is the point of cooking for yourself?” And so, as fate would have it, in my cart I had a package of chicken thighs. Six chicken thighs for $2.58. First of all I couldn’t pass it up even though I didn’t need the chicken, it was just so cheap. So I said I just have to have it. So I tell her, “What if you eat 2 chicken thighs for your dinner? And then you froze the other four in packages of two. Then you have your entrée for your meal and it is less than a dollar. It’s like 75 cents for your main course.” We went over to the vegetable bin and picked up a big bag of green beans which was only $1.58. More green beans than you could possibly eat in three meals. We could have bought a five pound bag of potatoes, but I picked up a single potato, weighed it, and it was only 38 cents.

So for less than $2.00 (count them 2) you have dinner for one. And I know there are a lot of cookbooks out there about cooking for two, but there are a lot of you out there, like me, still single. And you are just cooking for one. It is easy to do. You don’t have to go to Costco or the big warehouse stores, even at your own grocery store if you buy a family pack and break it down. I am going to do a video shortly on the food saver system. I swear by it. I was a butcher for 4 years in Newport and I am telling you I cryovaced all kinds of meat orders for private yachts and homes and what not. It is an indispensable device and it is going to save you a lot of time and money. Portion control is all great stuff. I will have a follow up video for you. Stay tuned. It’s going to be great.

My Favorite “Cooking For One” Cookbooks

Alone in the Kitchen With an Eggplant by Jenni Ferrari-Adler

The Pleasures of Cooking for One by Judith Jones

Going Solo in the Kitchen by Jane Doerfer

The 15-Minute Single Gourmet: 100 Deliciously Simple Recipes for One by Paulette Mitchell

The Pleasure Is All Mine: Selfish Food for Modern Life by Suzanne Pirret

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