I have found that now being alone, cooking/eating is quite difficult. Any can of vegetables, beans, cranberries etc..is just about double what I can use for one meal.
Salad fixings are hard to keep without spoiling before I could use them up.
Unless I refrigerate a loaf of bread, it will spoil before it is finished and so forth, so I had to make adjustments.
Instead of salad, I often use frozen veggies.. 1/2 a small bag at a time.
I was never a big meat eater anyway..and whether strip steak, sirloin steak or tube stake, makes little or no difference to me, so what little meat I eat is usually some kind of tube steak.
Cooking/eating solo is not easy. Come to think of it, many things done as a couple are somewhat more complicated now.
Periodically, the church elders and wives, have dinner at a local restaurant. After my wife
passed, I felt like odd-man-out, so for a partner, I took my grand daughter with me.
That didn't answer it though, because we would be discussing church business, which a teenager would not feel comfortable with..
Putting it mildly, being a widower changes things.