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How to Reduce Food Waste When Cooking for One
When you first learn to cook, you learn to cook for a family. Every cookbook, every Pinterest recipe, every TikTok video is geared to feed a group of people. So when you’re cooking for one and you want to make something for yourself, your natural instinct is to do exactly what you were taught… find…

Welcome to the solo Spoon
Hi, I’m Monica, solo cook and the creator behind The Solo Spoon. I started this blog because cooking for one felt more complicated than it needed to be: too much food, ingredients going to waste, and the same meal three nights in a row.
Here you’ll find single serve and small batch recipes built around variety, not repetition. The idea is simple: one grocery run should give you a week of completely different meals, not a week of the same leftovers reheated.
































