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11 Easy Dinner Recipes for One

Whether you live alone or your spouse/roommate/S.O. just isn’t home for dinner, you’re fending for yourself tonight. You don’t want a ton of leftovers, but you also don’t want scrambled eggs or a salad. What to do…? Oh! Make one of these scrumptious and easy dinner recipes for one and bask in the glory of not having to eat lasagna for your next four lunches and dinners.

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1. 10-minute Macaroni And Cheese In A Mug

Pretty much our childhood dreams come true.

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Girl Adulting

2. Single-serving Falafel Nachos

Brilliant.

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3. Minestrone Soup For One

The glass of red in the background is optional (but encouraged).

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BIg Girls Small Kitchen

4. Roasted Root Soup

Warming and nourishing and oh-so-delicious.

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5. Shrimp Scampi For One

Honestly, the less shrimp we have to clean, the better.

6. Quick Ramen Bowl

Yolk porn commencing in 3, 2, 1…


7. Cacio E Pepe

Equally delicious if you make it for yourself or for a crowd.

8. Healthy Lasagna

We won’t tell if you eat two ramekins yourself.

9. Oil-free Pesto Pasta

The secret ingredient? Avocado.

10. Moroccan-spiced Cod With Cauliflower Couscous And Carrots

Like those microwave fish sticks you could be having on your own…but a billion times better.


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11. Single Lady French Onion Soup

Bonus: No one's around to judge how much Gruyère you use.

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sarah stiefvater

Wellness Director

Sarah Stiefvater is PureWow's Wellness Director. She's been at PureWow for ten years, and in that time has written and edited stories across all categories, but currently focuses...