I eat cereal for dinner on a regular basis! I love cereal - right now my fave is Blueberry Morning but in the past have also had affairs with Cinamon Toast Crunch and Special K Vanilla Almond. And, if I have bananas to slice into my dinner cereal - Utopia!

My go-to bachelorette dish (and still a favorite treat to this day), was a bowl of lima beans and fake butter. That's the whole meal. Not exactly made for two!

My favorite dinner right now is taking the single serve veggie packs, like broccoli and cheese or creamed spinach and mixing with some pasta. Another really easy one is Ribble soup- just mix egg and flour until it's a kind of pasty mixture and drop in boiling chicken broth. So easy, and cheap. My mom used to make it for us when we were sick. I wish I ate better food at home but I don't really enjoy cooking and I especially don't enjoy cooking for just myself. My fridge is full of leftover containers that are probably starting to grow new life forms.

Hubby's bachelor dinner is a bag of microwaveable popcorn.

My favorite is a hunk of cheese and a baguette with a few spoons of Branston Pickle.

Microwaved american cheese sandwich. Eat it quick before the bread dries out and the cheese hardens... Mustard, optional.

How decadent is an entire can of fat free pringles??

Ohh Elizabeth, you so fancy!
No cereal, no breakfast sandwiches.

I'd say my submission for this entry comes from a time when I had nothing to eat for lunch. I simply took 2 buttermilk Eggo waffles, some Trader Joe's turkey meatballs and a handful of shredded cheese. Tossed it all in the micro and BAM!, a perfect "sammich" to eat while catching up on The Soup.

I've also made a "casserole" of a can of corn, cheese, and hot sauce

Hey, that's what they pay me the big bucks for. Ha ha. Seriously, cold cereal and breakfast sandwiches are just saying, "I don't want to be up at this hour and I don't particularly want to be eating. So make it fast." Of course, if I loved cold cereal, it wouldn't be saying that. EL

One box of spaghetti=1 week of dinner. any bachelor also knows when the bars have the best food specials. Home cooked doesnt have to mean your home, or even anybodys home

I am known to whip up a 3 course feast just for moi. (Just because you live alone doesn't mean you shouldn't have a fab home-cooked meal. ) A simple pleasure is breakfast for dinner - pancakes/waffles with turkey bacon or sausage.

Breakfast for dinner, absolutely. For me, that was a mushroom and cheese omelet with a lil salsa, and some canadian bacon.

Having canned soup or chili right out of the pot meant one less thing to wash.

I have three stand-by meals for when my husband is away on business:

1) sushi and grapes eaten while taking a bubble bath
2) peanut butter and syrup mixed together and eaten on white bread
3) I drive 167 miles to the nearest White Castle in New Jersey and get a huge bag all for myself, extra ketchup, extra pickles. Timing is critical with this: I do it so a good amount of time elapses before he returns because, really, you aren't fit to be around other human beings after you've eaten a bag of sliders.

When hubby is away on business I still have soup and french fries for dinner. Mmmmm.

Hot dog noodle soup.

There's a book of essays on this very phenomenon-

Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone, edited by Jenni Ferrari-Adler. I read it earlier this year, quite enjoyable.

When I was but a wee lad, I would sit down to dinner with a carton of milk, a container of cottage cheese, and the daily newspaper, and finish all three.

Two large sirloins, broiled med. rare. Sassy Cotes du Rhone. Eat, drink till tum hurts. Give scraps to dogs. Finish wine. Works for breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc.

Instant mashed potatoes with a little pool of butter on top!
I am so decadent about mashed potatoes that my daughter even found an instant mashed potato ring (the ring looks like a bowl of mashed potatoes with a serving spoon on the side) from
Etsy.

Bachelor(ette) dining is usually about desperation and making do with what is around. Not always awful, but not all that satisfying compared to a real meal. Last night, I had a very juicy locally-grown peach and some (local Amish-sold) pistachios for dinner (peaches pair well with Maker's Mark). Good, but sweet mary jesus, I'm looking forward to restaurant week. And hoping for suggestions on that front.

mmmmm...white castle. Can't wait for my next trip to NJ/NY. But my family calls them belly bombs.

Lazy meals are Korean ramen or cans of store brand ravioli (I'm really not proud of the latter).

Usually, though, I take whatever veggies from my partial CSA share are threatening to rot and stir fry them with thin sliced skirt steak, or maybe hamburger, toss in some soy sauce, fish sauce and other seasonings and serve over rice. I make the rice about once a week and reheat, so this takes under 20 min. from grabbing the knife to grabbing the spoon.

I just don't like how processed foods taste.

In several of his murder mysteries, author Lawrence Sanders has his protagonist [Edward Delahaney, maybe?] make sandwiches and eat them over the kitchen sink so he won't have to wash a dish. Is this art imitating life or the other way around?

When I was single, dinner was often a box of Kraft mac & cheese, eaten right out of the pan. Can't stand the stuff now, but I can do serious damage to Stouffer's mac & cheese. All my life a favorite anytime meal has been a couple ounces of Kraft extra-sharp Cheddar, cut very thin and melted in a small pan greased with a tiny dab of butter. When it's fully melted, I dip in a couple of slices of bread. Mmmmm, melted cheese bread!

I don't understand all this crazy single cooking stuff you people are talking about. When I was single, dinner was typically grab a few buddies from work and hit the local diner.

My wife was actually astonished to eventually discover that I could cook (I just prefer to do as much from scratch as possible, and doing it for 1 person was more work than I felt like doing).

A favorite among my friends is "low budget chicken parmigiana." It involves frozen chicken fingers/nuggets, pre-shredded mozzarella (or string cheese, whatever you have on hand) and parmesan cheese from the shaker can. Combine, microwave, dip in spaghetti sauce.

Another concoction we came up with while living in the dorms was something we called "trailer park tiramisu." Twinkies, Vanilla pudding, and a canned Starbucks' double-shot. It sounds gross but it actually tastes ok, as long as you eat it before the Twinkie disintegrates.

I know this is going to make me sound like I can't cook at all (I really can and do) but Sloth - my 16 y.o. son loves "low budget chicken parm"!!!! He'd rather have that than the real thing.

You know, I almost can't remember being single ... it's been that long.

When I was single and living with a friend, we had a standard 3-course meal. First course for me was pretzels with guacamole (I still love it); for her, microwaved Brussels sprouts. Second course: ice cream. Third course: microwave popcorn.

We ate that at least once a week.

Catching up on all the posts I missed this week. When I got to this one I had to add my husbands bachelor/poor student entree of sardine spaghetti sauce. It looked and smelled as bad as it sounds.

How about this for lazy food:

Take a can of Bush's Vegetarian Baked Beans and drain off the excess sauce/fluid. Add a good dollop of your favorite BBQ sauce and then some decent buffalo wing sauce, Texas Pete is pretty good.

Stir well and make sure it doesn't burn.
While that is cooking, boil some hot dogs and when they are done, cut them up (I used an egg slicer) and mix them in with the beans. Yum! Hearty and almost healthy, except for the huge slug of sodium.

Why not just buy a can of Beanie Weenie? They used to make a Chili Weenie too, but I only saw that a few times in Mississippi sone 20 years ago. Brought a few cans back home with me. Today, if you want to make sure the TSA inspectors open your checked baggage, pack a few cans of foodstuff. Works darn near all the time.

Beth - slightly less decadent than a can of Pringle's with all of the fat in them.