(living on my own for first time) What should I buy at grocery store and cook? How do I cook it?

Answer 1

Go to www.recipezaar.com they have tons of recipes for bachelors or people living alone that are easy to make - they give you all the things you need to buy at the store, so it makes it simple.

Answer 2

The more you can learn to cook for yourself, the healthier you'll be able to eat. Prepackaged frozen food tends to be less healthy than things you could prepare.

We got a cook book for Christmas last year and it helped a ton. Buy whatever meat is on sale, get some veggies on sale, and see what you can make iwth them out of that.

This is the 'recipe' for Lemon Chicken, something my mother used to make for a quick meal, that my fiance loves!

Ingredients:

* Chicken (how ever much you will eat)
* A Lemon
* Mushrooms (if you like them, and again, however much you will eat with your chicken)
* Pasta or Rice (to go underneath)
* Also will need flour, oil (canola, veggie, olive, whatever), and spices if you want them... I usually just use italian spices, but they're pretty optional.


Cut chicken into bite size pieces. Put flour into a medium-large bowl, and add spices. Put the chicken in the flour and mix it around until its coated in flour.

Put a little oil in a frying pan or wok or whatever cooking instrument you have. Let it heat for a minute. Then put the chicken in there and cook it until it's... well, cooked. If you're not sure, cut a piece open. Then add the mushrooms (I usually buy the ones that are already cleaned/sliced to make it easier). Cut the lemon (into 4-6 pieces) and squeeze it over the chicken and throw the rest in the pan. Mix it all, let it cook until the mushrooms are soft/cooked.

At the same time you'll want to cook pasta or rice to go underneath.

Serve it up, and you're good to go.

Takes 10-15 minutes to make it, and its fairly healthy.


Other tips for starting out: its usually cheaper to buy in bulk, so if you can make something you can freeze, that works great, and you'll have meals to thaw on nights you don't feel like cooking. For things that don't freeze well, if you can eat the same thing for a few days, that works too.

Get creative with leftovers. i was craving roast chicken, and then used the leftovers to make chicken soup, which went in the freezer until a night I didn't feel like cooking. Things like that are VERY helpful!!

Good luck!!

Answer 3

if u cook a lot u should buy fresh food or food that can be stored easy and stay fresh long if u just want to pop something in the microwave u should get pizza puffs TV dinners or eat out i am a chef i could give u some recipes if u Cook but if not frozen foods or instant noodles etc

Answer 4

Start out simple, Mac and Cheese from the box and premade up hamburgers and other simple things, that you like. That is cheaper and gets you in a routine. Than branch out do one night a week where you try something new, a casserole, Pasta dish, or some kind of baked chicken. Once you get that down then go to two nights a week and so on. foodtv.com has great ideas. Also do not go out a get all super specialized cooking things, get a pan, a pot, some cooking utensils, and one casserole dish.

Answer 5

Your are to become the egg master learn how to cook perfectly Boiled, scrambled, fried and then Omlette and pancakes.

The omlette is then your key to learning to use other ingredients anything really experiment.

Now you can feed yourself with basic ingredient have learned to use the frying pan and are ready to step it up a gear and impress the honeys.

The simple pancake inorporates flour but it is a corner stone to some much nicer sweets such as fritters and making batters to coat food such as in Chinese cooking. You are also a step away from cakes master the fruit cake and u have an instant energy source that tastes great keeps for ages and is sure to impress.

Next step it up to the WOK this is an excellent piece of cooking kit and can be uses to make really good chinese food, indian food, stir fry's, chilli con carne the list is endless get a book on WOK cooking. Introducing steak and Hamburgers onto your menu is also good at thins point.

Two more key elements are learning to boil rice u can get a rice cooker but it can be done well in a pan trick is not too much water. Basmati rice is one of my favs.

Drain flash your rice drop on a plate. Take ur sauce and food from the wok poor into the pan then throw the rice in the wok for a a quick flash fry then drop ur sauce meat etc onto the rice in the wok for 5 mins. Flavours the rice a bit.

Now you have all the skills to make yourself to make all kinds of dishes it's time to learn how to make really good sauces.

Italian Bolognese and Carbonara sauces are my fav and it's all about the right blend of ingredients, herbs etc. Experiment and be patient you will get there.

Have fun

Answer 6

Here is a real easy recipe and is good for left overs! If you have a crock pot(easiest), Get a couple of potatoes ( peeled and cut in medium pieces), two / three carrots ( peeled and sliced), 1/2 onion (peeled and cut), a small rump roast. Place potatoes, carrots, and onion in crock pot. Sprinkle Garlic Powder and Pepper on the roast and place roast on the vegetables. Get 1-2 cans of Cambells Beef Consumme and pour over meat. Place lid on and cook for 5-6 hours on low. Great with French Bread.

Answer 7

this is a basic list of what you should buy: bread, butter, beans, bacon, noodles, soup, eggs, hungry man dinners, milk, cereal, frozen vegetables, tuna. With the bread and eggs you can make french toast. Soup by itself or in a casserole with the tuna and noodles. Vegetables with the tuna. Tuna sandwiches with the bread. Cereal with the milk, Fried egg sandwiches with the eggs and bread. The dinners are self explanatory. Most things come with directions on the label. I put alot of thought into this, so I wish you luck. Happy New Year

Answer 8

Here is a link to bachelors' cook books... read reviews and pick one up, shop according to recipes you want to make. Find stuff you like than buy in bulk at warehouse stores. Make a bunch at once and freeze so you can just thaw single portions.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_i_0/002-4579648-2035209?ie=UTF8&keywords=bachelor%20cookbook&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Abachelor%20cookbook%2Ci%3Astripbooks&page=1

Answer 9

When I first moved on my own, I bought the basics. Some rice, butter, salt and pepper, some canned soups, frozen vegetables, bread.

After a few weeks or so I bought some meat, then I bought more fresh fruit and vegetables, eggs,...

That's the fun part, learning to cook it all. That's how you learn, Silly.

Don't stress it, Best of luck.
& Kudos to you for living on your own.

Answer 10

hamburger helpers/tuna helpers will be a good start to stock up on, a baby can cook a nice decent meal with that, follow the rules on the box all you usually need for them is some ground beef or canned tuna, my favorite is the enchalada one , for some nutricion, buy some fruit and salads. good luck and enjoy your freedom of living on your own