Healthy Eating: Cooking for One (FCS80008/FY1302)

Figure 1.  When cooking for one, you can alter recipes written for more people by using less of the ingredients. See the table in this publication to learn how to halve ingredients for recipes.You may think that cooking for one is a difficult task because most recipes are intended to serve four or more people. However, there are things you can do to make cooking for one easy and enjoyable. Inlcudes a table of measurements for reducing recipes. This 2-page fact sheet was written by Emily Minton, and published by the UF Department of Family Youth and Community Sciences, May 2012. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fy1302