If I ever do a second edition, I feel like I should add a bunch of recipes to the "cooking for one" section. There's a book out, something like "What we eat when we eat alone," that looks at just how different our diets our when eating solo.

Best metaphor I can give for easy, cooking-for-one meals: Flip books, as in those spiral-bound children's books where you can flip different sections of the page, you know, show this hair with those eyes and that nose and this mouth. Same thing for easy meals: a protein with a veggie with a grain/starch with some seasoning. Not all combos work, of course, but it's amazing at how much does.

Grains/starches take the longest to cook, so I've just taken to cooking an entire (small) bag of beans or lentils or whatever and storing it in a container in my fridge. This'll last half a week, easily. When it comes to cooking, I'll pan-cook a piece of fish, or maybe tofu; occasionally ground turkey or chicken, and when it's mostly done cooking, toss in a handful of beans/lentils to heat them up, along with a handful of pre-washed veggies (the bagged kind from Trader Joe's) and then some seasoning -- maybe cayenne pepper or curry powder or oregano.

Start to finish, it's ~5 to 10 minutes (I've had some practice, admittedly); during which time I wash any lingering dishes and clean up other stuff. You can cook a double or triple batch and stash the leftovers for taking to work for lunch.

Fast, easy, cheap, healthy... and delicious, too.

P.S. If you don't have a container of pre-cooked stuff, microwaves are great for yams/potatoes... ~4 to 5 minutes and you're good to go.