Cooking for one

Friday, 15th of April 2016

When you live alone, you soon discover that if you are hungry, you will have to be the one to cook, there is no one else that will do it for you. Sure, takeaways and precooked meals are always an option, or at least that is what you think before you understand how much money is actually flying of your bank account. Therefore, cooking turns out to be your only option.

The problem of cooking just for yourself is that you donˋt have to answer to no one or even impress someone else, you are the only one who is going to eat what you cooked and no one else will ever know. When you realize this and after a few days of just eating pasta, simply because it doesnˋt take that much work and is relatively cheap, you start wanting to change it up a bit and that leads to weird and surprising mixtures of flavours. Of course that when you go back home to meet your friends and family, you will never try to reproduce this dishes (if we can even call them that) but you will definitely remember them with a fondly smile and keep them secret.

Is also a misconception that when you live alone, you also start to eat healthier. Let me just tell you, no you donˋt. Yes, maybe you will lose a few pounds and go back home skinnier but that is not because you now have adopted a healthy livestyle, is only because you have to constantly pay attention to how much money you have so you instead of a box of cookies or chips that cost over 1.30£, you decide to buy the apple instead for 60 pences.

You will sometimes realize you were just day dreaming about food, about those restaurants you like back in your hometown or about your momˋs home cooked meals, but you will also understand that is your turn to step up and that cooking isnˋt as bad as it seems.

From a girl who wants to go to Hamburgueria do Bairro,

Mariana Fidalgo