The quick fix that substitutes for laborious, complex preparation beyond the bachelor bandwidth. Grilled cheese sandwiches and omelets are the designer foods of bachelor existence. Macaroni and cheese is considered a gourmet item, and highly prized by hungry bachelors of all genders. On the feminine side of the refrigerator spectrum, canned tuna, salads and cartons of yogurt are the specialties of female bachelors, who make a slightly greater effort to include protein in their diets. They are also big fans of The Frozen Dinner.
Smug satisfaction is taken in the well-rounded results.
A steady diet of frozen dinners will, however, induce well-roundedness onto bachelorette hips with alarming speed, and drive the rotund single back to a more spartan regime of rice cakes, yogurt and coffee. Using heavily salted French fries to soak up the sweet red goo, he consumed everything on both plates in under four minutes. The other bachelor, in his early 50s, revealed that once, when driven to desperate measures by the craving for a quick dessert, he'd poured Campari over a bowl of stale granola. Eating it with great relish, he claimed that it had done the work of a slice of tiramisu. Once again creative substitution had been the bachelor's mother of invention.