{"id":653,"date":"2011-10-07T02:02:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T07:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lowsugar-recipes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/tips-for-cooking-great-meals-for-two\/"},"modified":"2011-10-07T02:02:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T07:02:17","slug":"tips-for-cooking-great-meals-for-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lowsugar-recipes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/07\/tips-for-cooking-great-meals-for-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips For Cooking Great Meals For Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many recipes are available focused on family dinner time. That&#8217;s great, but what about small families of two? Whether you&#8217;re empty nesters, or just cooking for two for a special occasion or on a regular basis, you may need some perfect recipes for twosomes. Some couples find it&#8217;s just quicker to pick up some fast food instead of making a nice meal for two at home. There are a few hints you can follow to get you on the track to creating tasty homemade food.<\/p>\n<p> Did you know that you can always split a regular recipe in half; eat half now and freeze the other portion for another meal? Really, this is a simple method called batch cooking, and there are many excellent recipes on the internet.<\/p>\n<p> Slowcookers are the perfect applicance to create good easy <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/familycrockpotrecipes.com\/\">crock pot recipes<\/a>. Cook with a conventional size slowcooker so you can freeze leftovers, or purchase a single size crock pot and locate recipes that are made for the size you have. There are many tasty recipes such as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.familycrockpotrecipes.com\/Chicken-Crock-Pot-Recipes.html\">chicken crock pot recipes<\/a> online to get you started.<\/p>\n<p> Try out new dishes that you wouldn&#8217;t eat if you weren&#8217;t cooking for two. It&#8217;s more difficult for families to experiment with different foods because there are usually picky eaters and children involved. So, try out a new exotic recipe. Even if you don&#8217;t like it, your waste will be minimal.<\/p>\n<p> Cook a good whole chicken or a roast and save the leftovers to make stew, bbq sandwiches or casseroles for another meal. All it takes is a bit of planning and you can make several meals for two out of one roast. While you&#8217;re cooking the first meal, make extra side dishes to freeze .<\/p>\n<p> Regardless of why you&#8217;re cooking for two, you needn&#8217;t eat fast food or at restaurants all of the time. Talk about expensive, not to mention unromantic and unhealthy! Couples can use dinner time as a time to get to know each other more and have a stress free dinner together. Now&#8217;s not the time to stress over &#8216;what&#8217;s for dinner&#8217;. Make life easier by doing some meal planning and cook great meals for two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many recipes are available focused on family dinner time. That&#8217;s great, but what about small families of two? Whether you&#8217;re empty nesters, or just cooking for two for a special occasion or on a regular basis, you may need some perfect recipes for twosomes. Some couples find it&#8217;s just quicker to pick up some fast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[924,925],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsugar-recipes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsugar-recipes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsugar-recipes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsugar-recipes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsugar-recipes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsugar-recipes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsugar-recipes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsugar-recipes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lowsugar-recipes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}