For the past year and a half, I have been adjusting to cooking for one after decades of sharing the kitchen with my spouse, a wonderful cook and enthusiastic eater. It has been a challenge.

Sometimes I have too much food, sometimes I eat chips and salsa for dinner at the kitchen sink while watching the evening news, and sometimes I have leftover soup, freeze the rest, and follow it with a big bowl of ice cream.

It turns out, there are many people adjusting to being single and cooking for one, especially as we age, and we are all so different. One friend makes a big soup or stew on Sunday and eats it all week until she can’t stand it anymore. Another calls DoorDash every night.

Still another friend eats simply — a salad or a sandwich will suffice, yet she, like me, loves to cook and stil

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