single serving
Just for one
Single serving describes a portion of food or drink sized for one person to consume at one time.
The term appears on packaging to indicate quantity: a single-serving bag of chips, single-serving coffee pods.
It extends beyond food to anything designed for individual, one-time use: single-serving shampoo bottles from hotels.
The phrase gained cultural resonance from the film *Fight Club*, where it described the disposable connections of modern life: single-serving friends met on airplanes, used once, then discarded.
- portionDivided share given
- portion controlLimiting serving sizes
- individualOne separate human being
- soloPerformance by one
- packetSmall sealed container
snack · microwave · TV dinner · convenient · lonely · one · sachet · instant · tray · meal · meal prep · pod · miniature · wrapper · prepackaged · airplane · flight attendant · hotel
- Meal Kitsfresh ingredients, meal plans, subscription box, cooking instructions, HelloFresh
- portionsportion, half portion, helping, double portion, half
- portion controlmeasuring cups, measuring spoons, food scale, kitchen scale, portion cups
- one-personone-man show, solo act, solo performance, monologue, sole proprietorship
- lone/single thingslone wolf, hermit, only child, sole survivor
single servingfamily-sized
Scaled for households
bulk · party size · economy size · large format · king size
single, serving, singly, singles, singled, singling, singleton, singular, singularity