Don't know what to eat

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Sign up to twitter if you haven't already and get veggie recipes everyday. Then you have a project to keep you entertained and healthy.

Are you morrissey?

I can give you advice...maybe even a new obsession. There is a cookbook called the veganomicon. Its awesome, probably one of the best cookbooks ever created, and its for vegetarians and vegans. You might want to try and cook one new recipe per day from the cookbook. The cookbook is around $20 on amazon, but for you it might be worth it.

Also most cities and college towns have vegan and vegetarian pot lucks, often several of them. Try to track one down.

The truth is it is harder to cook just for one person. You are righ about menu plan websites being for families. But you are not in a hopeless situation, there is a way out!

While it can also very quickly lead to obsessiveness, I find allrecipes.com awesome for this, especially because there's not only the recipe, but then all the reviews from other people specifying if they had to do something slightly different or whatever.. so it gets rid of anything that might have been vague in the instructions, and you can also change the number of servings and it'll recalculate the ingredients. Plus you can search it specifically by what ingredients you want to use, and what ingredients you absolutely don't want to use. And it'll make a grocery list for you, but I haven't used that, I don't think you can tell it what you already have..

As a vegetarian for 35+ years, often living alone, I've learned to use a pressure cooker for grains, for legumes, and for vegetables. I usually cook enough grains for 3 or 4 days at a time,
and store it in a sealed container in the refrigerator (not freezer). Keep the refrigerator at 35 degrees Fahrenheit. Often also save cooked legumes for 3 or 4 days the same way. Vegetables I generally cook on-the-spot.

You can find a good web site for learning about using pressure cookers,
by googling for the missvickie site.
(I can't get the web address itself to display here because of the 5 day waiting period for new users here at wrongplanet. )

There have been times when I used a CrockPot a lot, too.

If you eventually develop an interest in cooking a step beyond the spartan bachelor style cooking that is all I've learned, you might like the cookbook "Ten Talents" from the 7th day Adventist organization. I have known several vegetarians, none of them Adventists, who found that book quite helpful.

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