You were saying that it's difficult to make food just for you when everyone else isn't eating LC.
That must be tough - and I can see how making up a whole recipe seems kind of silly when it's just for one person. Plus, there's the added thing of having two people trying to cook at the same time to get dinners ready.
I do have a suggestion for you - and it's grilled/BBQ'd chicken breasts. You simply pick up a family size package of boneless, skinless chicken breasts on the way home from work one night. Once home, rinse them off and pat dry with paper towel. Place the chicken breasts into a large lasagna pan or oblong glass baking dish. Now pour some Newman's Own Italian dressing on top - it's really low carb (1 gram per 2 tablespoons), so go ahead and pour a decent amount of dressing on top of the chicken. Now turn the chicken breasts over so that the dressing in the pan coats the chicken on both sides.
Next, you go and fire up the BBQ - leave the chicken marinating in the fridge for about 20 minutes or so.
Grill all the chicken, eat some for dinner that night and refrigerate the rest for a very handy supply of "fast" food for the next couple of nights. It's great cold - cut it up and put onto a salad, or mix with some mayo and green onion for a chicken salad. Or come home, and heat up one of these cold leftover grilled chicken breasts in the microwave with some shredded cheese on top or whatever you like.
These grilled chicken breasts have been a life-saver for me, especially when things get hectic and I get hungry and don't have time to fuss over cooking. I've eaten them cold for breakast, sliced them up for salads, re-heated them for dinners. You get the idea.
Newman's Own has two excellent salad dressings for low-carbers - one is the olive oil & vinegar, and the other is the Italian. Both are only 1 gram of carbohydrate for two whole tablespoons, and since this stuff is non-creamy (meaning, not too thick and goopy) - two tablespoons goes a long way, especially as a marinade for chicken, pork chops or even shrimp.
Hope this helps.
PS - another "quick" meal is to buy some cooked, frozen jumbo shrimp ...thaw in a colander under cold running water for a few minutes...drain. Next, melt some butter in a frying pan, add some garlic powder, some crushed chili peppers and the shrimp. Next, douse the whole thing with lots of Frank's Red Hot Sauce. Top the sizzing shrimp with some grated parmesan - really good!
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