The Tiny Appetite Kitchen is here.
Fifty small-portion, high-protein recipes for the appetite you actually have. The cookbook I needed at week six is out today.
The Quiet Part
The tiny-appetite kitchen
Small-batch cooking, freezer portions, shopping lists, and fewer vegetables dying for the cause.
Cottage cheese toast with tomato and chives (no cooking)
One slice of good toast, a thick layer of cottage cheese, halved cherry tomatoes, chives, flaky salt. Five minutes and more protein than it looks.
The dessert problem, solved in a very small cup
Dessert as the world serves it is built for an appetite I no longer have. Six espresso cups, a cottage cheese mousse, and extra spoons gave it back to me.
Ginger broth with a soft egg (a twelve-minute dinner)
A clear, gingery broth with a soft egg on top. Twelve minutes, one small pot, and it counts as dinner on a week when nothing else does.
Snacks that count as a meal when the meal didn’t happen
When dinner is three bites at 7, there's a shelf for 9. The protein-forward snacks I keep around, how I build a plate from them, and why it isn't failing.
Grocery shopping for a tiny appetite without wasting half of it
How I shop for an appetite the size of a polite houseguest: nine recipes instead of seven days, small protein packs, patient produce, and the freezer aisle.
Breakfast when you’re not hungry until noon
My appetite sleeps in now. What I eat standing at the counter, the cottage cheese era, the egg that waits, and the second breakfast that is really the first.
Leftovers, the enemy of the tiny appetite
A batch that should last two days now lasts six. The freezer system that fixed it: single portions, dated labels, the two-week rule, and three foods not worth freezing.
Protein first, then whatever fits
The one rule I cook by: protein goes on the plate first and the rest fills what's left. How it looks at breakfast, lunch and dinner, with no numbers.
The small-pot soup I make every single week
Not a recipe, a method: a two-quart pot, protein browned first, less broth than you think, and the two-day rule. Why soup is the friendliest food for a tiny appetite.
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