Plan a week of meals for one person with zero waste

Cooking for one means a five-pack of peppers and a loaf you will never finish go off in the salad drawer. This builds a week of meals sized for one person, avoiding big packs that spoil and reusing ingredients across days, fitted to your diet, budget, skill and kitchen kit. Eating properly solo without the bin filling up.

Design a practical weekly meal plan for one person that minimises food waste and avoids buying large quantities that will spoil.

Dietary preferences or restrictions: {DIETARY_CONSTRAINTS}
Weekly food budget: {FOOD_BUDGET}
Cooking skill level: {SKILL_LEVEL}
Time available on weeknights: {WEEKNIGHT_TIME}
Kitchen equipment available: {KITCHEN_EQUIPMENT}

Constraints:
- No recipe should require buying a large pack of an ingredient used only once
- Show how ingredients are reused across multiple meals (e.g. half a can of chickpeas used Monday, rest used Wednesday)
- Include portion sizes scaled for one
- Suggest one batch-cook option to cover two or three meals
- Provide a minimal shopping list with quantities suited to a single person