12 Foil Packet Dinners for Seniors Living Alone (No Pans to Wash)

📖 Every diner supper and every trick Earl taught me, with the real amounts, is in my little book "Nancy's Diner Secrets": 👉 https://nancysdiner.com You can put a whole supper on one sheet of aluminum foil, fold it shut, and sit down thirty minutes later to a hot plate with no pots, no pans, and nothing to scrub. I learned it from Earl, the short-order cook at the diner on Main Street in West Plains, Missouri, where I waited tables for 35 years. Here are 12 foil packet dinners, each sized for one person, with the exact amounts, oven temperature, and minutes: hobo dinner, chicken and green beans, smoked sausage and peppers, lemon butter cod, pork chop with apples, a shrimp boil, meatball subs, sausage and cabbage, ham with sweet potatoes, creamy chicken and rice, Earl's famous Salisbury steak, and a baked apple. Plus how to fold a packet that never leaks, and how to make three at once so supper is waiting for you all week. Pull up a stool. The coffee's hot. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 — Supper on a sheet of foil 1:57 — How to fold a packet that won't leak 3:18 — Make 3: the plan for one 3:52 — #12 Hobo dinner 5:23 — #11 Chicken, potatoes & green beans 6:49 — #10 Smoked sausage, potatoes & peppers 8:20 — #9 Lemon butter cod (the no-stick trick) 10:00 — #8 Pork chop with apples & onions 11:24 — #7 Shrimp boil packet 13:07 — #6 Meatball sub packet 14:33 — #5 Sausage & cabbage (cheapest on the list) 15:58 — #4 Ham steak & sweet potatoes 17:10 — #3 Creamy chicken & rice 18:53 — #2 Earl's Salisbury steak 20:41 — #1 The packet that isn't about the food 22:37 — What to carry away Which one are you making first? And if there's somebody near you who lives alone and could use an extra packet, tell me about them in the comments. I read every one with my afternoon coffee. ABOUT THIS CHANNEL Old diner cooking for the way we live now: simple suppers for one or two, exact times and amounts, and the tricks a short-order cook taught me in 35 years behind the counter.