Living by yourself cooking

If you can get one, a crockpot (slow cooker) can be a great way to have a nice hot home-prepared meal without a lot of preparation fuss. Plenty of slow cooker recipes take little time to prepare, and they they just sit in the cooker for six to eight hours. Its great if you work all day or have classes. Make-ahead recipes that you can put together and refrigerate until you are ready to just pop it in the oven are the same-deal.

Chicken breasts cook up fast, and there are many, many, many ways to season them. Lasagna just gets better as a leftover, and you can put it together ahead of time.

Keep a decent stock of frozen and canned veggies. Preparing them involves little more than a bit of heat over the stove (unless you want to get fancy). Also keep broths (chicken and beef) on hand; putting together your own soups is pretty easy.

Single-pot recipes. Complete meal, only one pot to clean up afterwards. Need I say more?

Start building your own little recipe book. It takes some effort to copy down recipes from different sources, but its very nice to have one place to go to where you know you will find something you can make quickly that you will like.

Jam it back in, in the dark.