Stefanie: I just found this site and this topic. This topic has fascinated me for quite a while as I live alone,work full-time, had a heart attack at very young age (54) and then came up with beginning-stage Type 2 Diabetes. And I love to cook. It took me YEARS to figure out how to cook for one after years of cooking for a family. I am surprised there are few cookbooks for this topic. I may have missed your article already :-(

My 2 cents:
1. anyone who has cooked from scratch can cook most of the recipes they love;
Cut down on the recipe, freeze into individual portion meals, or eat the
same thing for a couple of days. (I haven't found a way to freeze potatoes
so they are good (ie: in beef stew); so I take them out before freezing)
2. Grilling in the oven or on an electric grill is just as fast for one
pork chop or steak takes exactly as long as grilling lots of pork chops
or steaks.
3. Bagged salads are expensive, but the no-work solution for one. (a bag lasts
longer for one...one bag wouldn't have fed my family!) Dressings: a little
olive oil, a squeeze of lemon or drop of balsamic vinegar. Parmesan cheese
curls (from a wedge of real parmesan), a dash of fresh ground pepper....Anyone who loves grapefruit...put grapefruit sections on top of greens
and squeeze grapefruit juice onto salad greens...be careful if you add
herbs (dill is TERRIBLE with this).
4. Use frozen garlic breads..the Texas toast kind where you can bake only
one or two (in about 10 minutes!)
5. Eggs are a good dinner (and are beginning to shed their bad reputation).
Omelets especially can be a whole meal if planned with vegetables too--provides both protein and carbohydrates. (I am never full unless I have some
protein.)
6. Find one easy kind of meal and have it on the night you are tiredest...
Wednesday is my tiredest night. I don't have to think then about what to
cook.
7. Keep some decent store-bought frozen dinners in the freezer so when you
really don't want to cook, you aren't tempted to just snack instead of
eating...it is SO easy when you live alone to rationalize how healthy cheese
and crackers are.

This is getting long. I do have recipes I'd be glad to share...and would love to get more