Do you cook if you are home alone?

Ummm, no. I'm not home alone often, but if I was, I'd get takeout or just make a sandwich or something. If I lived alone, I guess I'd end up freezing a lot of leftovers or just having people over for dinner if I wanted to cook.

A quesadilla is my go-to solo meal.

Sometimes I'll make something that the rest of the family doesn't like - potato soup, for example. But usually, no. I'm more likely to arrange to meet a friend for dinner.

Nope.  Leftovers, frozen something or cereal are my go to's.

I'm not home alone that often right now, but it will definitely be the norm in about 4 years.  I'm guessing I'll cook a little more when it's every nite.

Yes, I do. My husband works evenings, so we don't get to have dinner together that often. I still make a good dinner every night and we eat the leftovers for lunches. 

Sometimes I do and when that happens, it's often fish because I'm the only one who likes it.

Yep. I throw something on the grill sometimes or do a quick stir fry. Other times it's leftovers or just fruit and granola or similar.

I have not been home alone in twelve years.  I just realized that in answering this.  I have been home with kids but without my husband, and my husband has been home without me, but I don't think either of us has been home for dinner in the house alone since we had kids.  Funny.

Back when I often was by myself, I did often cook simple meals alone.  Pasta with pesto, that sort of thing.

No, I don't cook for just myself.

Yes. Absolutely. I love cooking and if I didn't cook well for myself, I'd never get recipes tested and that sort of thing. Some days I'll skimp and cheat a little bit but most time I cook full out.

I'm so rarely home alone for dinner, that I look at it as a treat to eat cereal. Added plus of no mess.

If it were more often, I'd definitely be cooking for just me. As it is now, I'm only alone at dinner once every few months.

Nope

This is something that I am working on. I am alone for dinner a number of days, and with my oldest going off to college soon-I realized recently that my youngest isn't that much further behind him. There will come a day soon where I am home alone every night for dinner.

I just had a conversation with my mom about not feeling like cooking for "just me" and she asked me why I didn't think *I* was worth cooking for-that I spent years thinking that my children were worth cooking for, why was I not worth the same consideration?

It made me stop and think. I have always enjoyed cooking for the kids. I cook mostly from scratch (not always, but mostly) and I spend a lot of time planning meals that I think they will enjoy. Up until recently, when they weren't home I generally snacked for meals, or skipped them entirely. 

But I realized that I can't spend the rest of my life not eating because I don't have anyone to cook for. I think maybe I do deserve to be fed just as well? 

So I am learning to cook for just me. It is a learning curve for sure, but eventually I will get it.