For how many people do you usually cook?

[MissMillie]

For me, it's just two, and this is true both when I am cooking at home and when I go to cook for Dad & Sis. (When my son was a teenager, we always had some of his friends at our dinner table.)

I'm very fortunate that none of us are picky eaters.

My sis and Dad are probably the least finicky. Dad doesn't care for hot dogs and sis avoids black olives. Other than that, they pretty much will eat whatever I make for them.

My guy doesn't care for peas. He doesn't care for green peppers (preferring red or yellow instead) or red onions. I don't care for the family of orange squashes, and I do not like raisins or cottage cheese.

It'd be nice to be able to make one meal for all 4 of us, but Dad eats early in the evening, Sis reheats when she gets home from work after 9 pm, and my guy and I eat around 7 pm.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. One. Myself.

[TEB]

2. Maybe 7 max

Our sons friends as well is the 7 miss millie

[Freddie]

3. Usually 2

Just DH and me. Biggest issue is he has Crohns so he can’t eat much (if any) fiber. He can eat well-cooked veggies like broccoli or green beans, and iceberg lettuce. No whole wheat bread, whole grain pasta or brown rice. So a lot of healthy things are eliminated.

[luvs2sing]

4. Usually just my husband and I

We have a very small eat-in kitchen, so the most I can cook for here is three. However, I love to cook and entertain so, a few times a year, I tag team with a friend who has plenty of room to entertain but doesn’t cook at all. We usually have between 15-20 at the tables at these parties.

My husband isn’t a terribly picky eater. He dislikes anything marshmallow or with a similar texture (meringue, soufflé), and he has a severe mollusk allergy (can eat shrimp, crab, lobster, but not clams, scallops, oysters, or mussels).

I’m actually the more picky eater. I’m severely lactose intolerant and have an anaphylactic reaction to all melons. I also dislike cabbage (hubster’s favorite), cauliflower, peas, and Brussels sprouts. I want olives in just about everything. He likes them occasionally. I want chili once a week. He like chili once a year. We make it work.

Most of what I cook, I make in large batches so there’s plenty to freeze for lunches and quick dinners. I have rehearsal most Monday nights and am gone by the time he gets home from work. I don’t like singing on a full stomach, so I don’t eat before I leave. Mondays are for slow cooker meals or one-pot dishes we can reheat when we’re ready to eat.

[Phentex]

5. 3 regularly; 4 when other son is home...

and those days are dwindling as he will graduate from college in May and be own his own for good. He is a meat eater so I add that when he's home.

When the kids were in high school, we always had extra kids for dinner, especially a certain Eddie Haskell type who would inquire about the menu before he made plans elsewhere. He never failed to be here for pasta night when I made sauce and Italian bread.

[The Polack MSgt]

6. My wife and I are "empty nesters" now, but we haven't truly adjusted to cooking for 2

So we tend to take turns cooking 3 or 4 days out of the week and eat left overs the other days.

Some things (steak or stir fries for example) are easy to do in small batches, but...

Some things we've never learned to scale down. Those dishes we share with friends since the amounts are ridiculous for 2 people.

Collards, Stew, Curry and Chili are the main culprits there. We have plenty of folks willing to take 'em off our hands, no worries

My wife also does Bolognese in huge batches - but that freezes so well (and tastes so good) that we don't share.

[get the red out]

7. Two

My husband is not picky, but wants meat with every meal. I am quite picky about meat (Either love or like veggies and fruit except for Okra, YUCK!). I am repulsed by pork, something cooked in bacon grease literally makes me gag and I can't swallow it. I get really disgusted by fat/gristle on beef and chicken.

I will make pork for him if he wants it and make a vegetarian dish to go along with and be my dinner. I eat poultry and beef, not but not all that much of it, I really like veggie burgers/veggie chicken so that can be a protein for me if I don't feel like meat.

I am so weird, but he isn't, LOL.

[Kali]

8. pretty much down to three now

I am probably the pickiest of us, husband could live on fucking pancake breakfasts and the least adventurist though he will eat it all. Son is most adventurist. I like to try new stuff but my issues are textural. Not as bad as when I was a kid, but still can be a problem. I am sick of the 3 meals a day routine. could easily live on one or two unless doing a lot of physical work and even then two well spaced is fine. Husband needs three meals a day on the clock. drives me insane, I have no problem skipping meals if I am doing something else. he is frequently in my way and disturbing my concentration, but at least he does his own breakfast and lunch.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. One.

In the past I had a husband and two sons, but after kids grew up and a divorce I'm single.

I generally like cooking. The real drawback to only cooking for one is that either there are a lot of leftovers of things that I almost never make because it's hard to scale down the amounts to a single serving.

On the up side, my food costs are minimal, especially since at this point in my life I simply don't eat very much.