Barbara Ames

So how did you do it? When my partner was pregnant with our now-five-year-old, that’s a question we got alarmingly often from well-meaning (straight) friends. Sometimes, in a particularly benefit-of-the-doubt kind of mood, we’d answer truthfully: we inseminated at home with a known donor, a friend.

Do you feel like it just isn’t worth the time it takes to prepare a meal for only one or two people? Do you find yourself settling for less healthy frozen dinners or take-out food more often than you would like? If you are answering yes to these questions, you may be selling yourself short. Try experimenting with the following tips designed to help you find the inspiration to prepare and enjoy healthy meals…even when cooking for one or two.

Image courtesy KSRE By BARBARA L. AMES Wildcat District Extension Family and Consumer Sciences Agent Most of us live and work in a sedentary culture and studies show that sitting too much is taking a huge toll on our health. Dr. James Levine, director of the Mayo Clinic Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative, has been studying the adverse effects of a sedentary lifestyle for years and sums up his findings this way.