Cooking for One? 10 Loaf Pan Suppers Under $2 a Plate

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You live alone, or you're the only one home most nights, and you're still shopping like there's four of you. The recipe says serves four, the beef comes in a pound, the casserole dish feeds six, so you eat the same thing five nights running or scrape half of it in the trash on Thursday. Go get your loaf pan. It holds two suppers, three if you're not a big eater, it fits in the toaster oven, and it freezes.

In this one I'll walk you through 10 loaf pan suppers for one, under $2 a plate:

🍞 Meatloaf stretched with oats and carrot, scalloped potatoes with what's in the fridge, and a lentil loaf
🍚 Oven rice that never scorches, and a supper bread pudding from the heels of the loaf
🍝 Loaf pan lasagna with no-boil noodles, and chicken thighs roasted over potatoes
🌽 Tamale pie under a cornbread top, and lazy cabbage rolls

…and number one, the Thursday pie that turns the week's odds and ends into a supper that doesn't taste like any of them.

Line the pan with foil, eat half tonight, freeze half, and in a month you've got your own frozen dinners for a fraction of the price. Start with two potatoes and two chicken thighs this week.

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Are you cooking for one? What's the thing you keep throwing away? Tell me down in the comments.

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