quick and easy recipes for one person?

hi guys. i'm in the middle of planning my grocery list, and i need your help. what are some good, quick, and easy recipes that are good for one or two people? i don't have a lot of time on my hands, and i don't have a ton of money. i'm just so tired of resorting to eating out because it's easier. it's also hard because i don't like most vegetables, so saying, "eat a salad" is out of the question since my least favorite thing in the world is lettuce.

help please?


thanks in advance!

Betty Crocker has a website with loads of recipes and you can do a search under "cooking for 2".  This brings up recipes with 2-3 servings and best of all, they list the nutritional info.  I've tried several of them and they're all good.

If you like chicken, get boneless, skinless chicken breasts.  When you get them home, package them individually for the freezer.  There are more recipes for that meat than any other.

Also, if you buy very lean hamburger, you can brown it with some onions, season it, cool it and package in serving size for quick additions to chili or spaghetti sauce, or casseroles.

If you like chili, you can slap together a good one very quickly - use two of your packets of cooked ground beef with onions, a can of beans, any kind, and a jar of salsa.  Nothing else is needed, not even seasonings.  Just throw it all in a pan and get it bubbling, cover it and cook for about 10 minutes to blend the flavors.  This makes two huge servings or 4 small servings, and you can increase it if need be.  Serve it with rice, tortillas or baked tortilla chips.

Here are a few things I keep on hand which have 'saved my life' on many occasions and continue to:

• frozen veggie burgers on a Healthy Life low-carb bun w/melted 50%-less-fat cheese 'n fixings
  
• boiled chicken breasts
  
• jumbo shrimp 'n cocktail sauce; expensive, yes - but once in a while you deserve it
  
• a vat of homemade vegetable soup
• mostly cooked pasta (with just a tad of olive oil to keep it moist); heats up very quick in the nuker.
  
• Frozen dinners.  I know they sometimes stink, but it's good to have a few in the freezer.  I buy whatever's on sale.
  

This was my supper tonight (based on a Rachael Ray recipe)

Bring 1-2 cups of chicken or vegetable broth up to a boil.  In the meantime whisk an egg (or two egg whites) together with a little bit of grated parmesan.  Drip the egg mix into the boiling broth so it forms little tatters.  When all the egg is cooked, toss in some more grated parmesan and a little bit of parsley.  Great with crusty bread.

Baking bread is always something good to do (and REALLY cheap...like you can get a bag of flour for $0.99...and then all you need is yeast and a pinch of sugar / salt...both cheap).

Its pretty low calorie too (a cup of flour *400 calories* can make a nice loaf).

This is one thing I started making when I was a poor student, and had to find healthy, cheap meals for one:

Get one can of tuna, some whole wheat tortillas, taco seasoning, and veggies of your choice.

Drain the water off the tuna, put it in a wok or a frying pan, and heat it up. Mix in a bit of taco seasoning (make sure you don't take too much, it can easily get too salty, and you want to watch your sodium). Mix in your veggies (I especially like to use canned pineapple and use the pineapple juice in the pan when I'm heating up the tuna - but if you want really low cal you could skip that). I always put in red peppers and cucumber, and mix it up with other kinds of veggies.

When it's all warm, I just put a bit in a tortilla, and eat. It's good, healthy, and fills you up! I love it.