The Ultimate Meal Planning for One Cookbook: 100+ Easy, Affordable, and Low-Waste (High-Taste!) Recipes Made Just for You

Jaggers (The Ultimate Mediterranean Diet Cooking for One Cookbook) writes for a specific audience—the solo eater. While this title contains some recipes that produce multiple servings, the majority make enough for only one or two. Jaggers also addresses the issue of what to do with the rest of the can of tomato paste or carton of heavy whipping cream after extracting the tablespoon or two needed for a particular recipe. In addition to the book’s recipes, there is also a series of weekly meal plans and shopping lists, demonstrating how to combine the recipes over a week so that the leftover ingredients, before they spoil, are incorporated into other dishes. This approach works better in some of Jaggers’s weekly plans than in others; for example, in week four, readers are advised to purchase two dozen eggs, while week one requires a bottle of dry white wine, a bottle of bourbon, and a bottle of brandy. Directions are straightforward, and nutrition information is provided for each recipe; photographs for of the dishes are included sporadically. The book’s back matter includes information on reducing a recipe to a smaller serving size.