Need some advice on how to live alone? Please help.?

I've started living on my own about a year ago, everything is fine but the only problem is that I always seem to have trouble when it comes to meal time. For a year now, I've been going out to fast-food, Chinese food, Mexican food, etc... and find that it is not all that healthy.





My question is, to anyone who have lived alone in the past, how do you feed yourself? Do you cook or do you dine out? I'm a single male attending school and work full time. Is it wise to cook for ';one'; single person? Or should I just dine out? Please share your thoughts.Need some advice on how to live alone? Please help.?
I know what you mean, but eating out does get old after awhile...and expensive. Can you try making meals and freezing them in single portions? That way when you come home from work and only have a few minutes before you need to rush off to school you can just throw a pre-made meal in the microwave.Need some advice on how to live alone? Please help.?
I think that you should ask some friends to come over and dine with you instead of going out to eat because that does get kind of expensive... that way you won't have to eat alone and you will have someone to hang out with at the same time....
there are many ready to eat dishes in the frozen food section of your supermarket, most of them you only have to heat up or put in boiling water for a few minutes
the more u eat out the more money you're gonna spend and the less healthier you're gonna eat. if you decide to cook, you don't have to exactly cook for one. any left overs you can have the next night or something. Dining out is okay but pretty soon it's gonna eat thru ur pockets and ur waistline.
When I was on my own --- I got cookbooks and learnt to prepare my own meals. Find some recipes you like --- make a list of the items you need to fix the meal (also the dessert)... I highly recommend the cookbooks for singles(check out your local bookstore) and they also have some for meals you can prepare in 15 or 30 minutes. Learning to cook is a good thing and you can do this to impress your date! I treated myself to dinner out only on pay day.
Ask a few friends or people in college you admire what they eat. Tell em you are having a hard time %26amp; want to save money, time etc. Go shopping with a sympathetic female friend.





After awhile you'll learn a few tricks. Good luck!
Do your body a favor and cook for yourself. It is not terribly hard but I do see your delima with being a busy student and working. What I used to do when I worked, went to school and had to feed my daughter as well was I would cook a large meal on a day I had a few hours to spare. Either soup, stew, stir-fy...anything really. Then freeze some in individual freezer container and microwave when you want to eat. For the first few nights you can still eat the refridgerated meal. After a while you should have a mix of meals in your freezer. Also, make sure you have fruits and veggies on had for snacking and spur of the moment.
cook enough for a few nights so every night you don't have to cook a whole meal....


learn to love living by yourself, and be creative....


what do you really like to eat, (no pun intended there) and cook it....





eating out costs way to much, and you are right, it is not healthy
You are not actually dining out, you are eating fast food that is loaded with sugar, salt and fat. Nutritionally you are setting yourself up for a future of dealing with the consequences of this poor eating when your body quits having the metabolism you do now.





You can get a cookbook from any bookstore or online that will give you ideas for meals for one person. However when my daughter, now out of college, learned to cook for herself she started with simple things. Realistically, you aren't going to take the time to cook full meals so, start out with simple things. At any grocery you can buy meat already prepared, or mostly prepared for you. If you are a vegetarian, you can do the same thing with some of the great vegetarian precooked proteins.





Keep several of these meats in your freezer, and buy a pound or two of good quality ground round and make it into patties and then freeze them. The idea is to have real food that is right at hand and that you can pop into the microwave or oven and cook in a few minutes. Also keep a couple of pizza's, even the smaller one's. If you keep an onion and a pepper in your refridge, it takes them a while to go bad, and you can add it to your pizza to give it some nutrician. So keeps some ready to make meats, some frozen vegetables, some pasta's and rices. You can easily fix these things in a matter of minutes and get into the habit of not eating fast food. And that should be your goal at first.





Once you have broken the fast food habit, and you are preparing your own meals 4-5 nights a week, then get into the cookbook and pick a recipe thats a bit more involved and go for it.





You can also buy bags of salad, low fat dressings, cheese, and if you want precooked meats, like beef or chicken strips, or even cans of tuna if you are a fish eater and make a really healthy meal that gives you a great variety of tastes.





You can buy breads (stick to whole wheat)that give you single servings, just keep in freezer and take out a roll as you need it.





Don't forget the easy. Toast some bread(use the oven if you don't have a toaster, just watch it), hard fry a couple of eggs, add a couple of pieces of ham, or turkey, or cheese and add tabasco, and have a hot fresh hearty sandwich.





Check out the book store for books that are written for kids out on their own, they are in the cookbook section.