Meal planning for one or two, without the leftovers tax
Most recipes feed four. Cooking for one or two therefore means dividing on the fly, drowning in leftovers, or letting half a bag of spinach die in the crisper. Repast plans from serving sizes recipes actually publish, so the week, the portions and the grocery run are all built for the number of chairs at your table.
Real yields, not divided ones
Halving a recipe is quiet guesswork. Spices do not scale in straight lines, pan sizes change cooking times, and a single egg refuses to become half an egg. Repast skips the guesswork by selecting among the yields each recipe ships with: 5,971 dishes in the catalog publish a true two-serving version, tested at that size by the people who wrote them. Set your household to one or two in the setup and those are the versions that arrive.
When the best dish for a night only exists at four servings, nothing is hidden. The card says a portion will be left over, so tomorrow’s lunch becomes a decision you made rather than a surprise in a container.
A grocery list that stops the waste
Food waste in a small household is usually a planning failure at the store. You bought for dishes you never quite chose, in amounts meant for families. Here the choosing happens first, so the list can total exactly what seven sized-for-you dinners require, one row per ingredient, with the quantities computed on your phone. Shopping becomes shorter, cheaper, and honest about what the week will really use.
Nights off are part of the plan
One and two-person weeks have more moving parts than family ones: dinners out, late gym nights, travel. Tell Repast which nights you cook and it plans only those, buying nothing for the rest. And since your plans sync through your own iCloud, the person who ends up near the store is holding the current list, whether that household is one person or two phones.
Small-batch numbers
Measured across the shipped catalog.
Small household questions
Is there a meal planner for one person?
Yes. Tell Repast one person is eating and it plans accordingly, choosing serving sizes that were actually published for small batches rather than a family recipe cut in half on faith. The week, the portions and the grocery list are all sized to a single cook from the start.
How does meal planning for two work?
Repast picks from yields the recipes really offer. 5,971 dishes in the catalog publish a genuine two-serving version, written and tested at that size, so a dinner for two is not a four-serving dinner with the quantities divided and the pan time guessed. When only a larger yield exists, the extra portion is labeled so you know it is coming and can plan lunch around it.
Does cooking for one mean eating the same thing all week?
No. That fate comes from batch-cooking one big recipe on Sunday. Planning is different: seven distinct dinners, each sized right, with the shopping merged into one list. Variety stops costing extra effort when something else is doing the arithmetic.
How do I avoid wasting groceries when cooking for one?
Buy what the week needs and nothing more. Because every dinner is chosen and sized before you shop, the grocery list totals the true amounts across the week, with one row per ingredient. The half-used bunch of cilantro problem shrinks when the planner knows Thursday also wants cilantro and buys once for both nights.
Can it handle one person with allergies?
The same ten allergen rules apply at every household size. Set what you cannot eat once and each proposed dish works within it, on the first plan and on every later change. Small households get the full machinery, not a simplified version.
What happens on nights I go out?
Tell it which nights you cook and it plans only those. A social Thursday or a standing date night is part of the setup, the list buys nothing for it, and no ingredient sits in the fridge waiting for an evening that was never coming.
Sized to your table.
Real one and two-serving yields, a grocery list that buys the right amounts, and a week that fits the household you actually are. No divided recipes, no fridge of regrets.
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