So, kids are gone, ex and I are no longer together (hence ex i guess lol) and I still find I over cook, I try to use less but it seems if I cook much more than a box of macaroni its too much. Sure I save leftovers, but one can only eat so much leftovers.

How have you dealt with over cooking? Or maybe I’m the only one?

  • Jo Miran
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    I’m not an empty nester but due to food allergies my wife and I eat different things. I find a good kitchen scale to be a hard requirement. Just take your recipe and scale it down. For pasta, I weigh the entire box, divide by four, weigh out and cook that fourth.

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        All credit goes to that dude in the Bible that managed to feed everyone with a single fish, loaf of bread and jug of wine. Not a lot of people realize that Jesus invented hors d’oeuvres. Holy tapas!

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      I had a pasta box that once said “get a handful of noodles. If it’s this big, that’s X many people” with a bunch of circles on the back of the box. and I just memorized how it felt in my hand.