A survival guide for men who find themselves living alone.
When a man finds himself alone at the end of a long term relationship, or during a prolonged separation, often it’s the first time in his life he’s had to look after himself.
This little book will be a big help when you are learning to do those things she used to do for you.
Are you one of those guys who can make all kinds of things but can’t make himself a meal? Or one of those guys who manages multiple projects at work but doesn’t have a clue when it comes to managing his personal space?
This book is for you.
It covers the basics of:
•buying food and preparing meals
•keeping the place clean
•doing the washing, and
•looking after yourself, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
It’s a survival guide written by a fellow traveller, who has survived alone, to let you know you can too. The other titl in this series are Cooking 4 One and Sanity Savers.
Buy yourself a copy today!
Excerpt
Staying alive
Feeding yourself
If you can't feed yourself you'll either starve or spend a lot of money on takeaways, or even more on eating out. You could of course become dependent on someone else, like your sister or your mother in-law, however, I don't recommend giving your power away to a well meaning relative, when you can easily learn to feed yourself.
To feed yourself you need to know something about food and cooking, so I'm covering this in two parts: buying food and preparing meals.
Buying food
You probably know where to go to buy food: the supermarket, the butcher's, the baker's, the greengrocer's or fruit and veg shop. If your life has been anything like mine, you've probably been sent down to one or more of those places with a list at some point.
Now that you're on your own, the challenge is writing the list before you go. And, writing a list is essential, if you don't want to blow your budget or wind up with a lot of stuff that you'll end up throwing out.
I started by doing my food shopping in the supermarket, and moved out to the specialty stores, like the butcher and fruit and veg shop, once I had some degree of confidence that I knew what I was doing.
If you can't find something to eat in a supermarket, you're not looking. Not only do they stock the basic ingredients for the dishes you might want to cook, they also have prepared meals that only require the application of heat, and ready made salads that only need to be opened.
The first time you go to the supermarket, spend some time getting yourself oriented with the layout, so that you can structure your list to align with the layout as you move through the supermarket. This saves a bit of backtracking, but don't get too carried away because, every now and then, they shift things just to see if you're awake.
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