Isn't there a recipe book for the GI diet, for one person?

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Surely if someone is going to go on any sort of diet, it's likely it won't involve the ENTIRE FAMILY. So why on EARTH do diet recipes usually serve FOUR or more?!

Does anyone have any low GI recipes for a singleton? Would be much appreciated.

As a singleton, not on a diet but probably should be, if I am following a recipe which serves 4 or more I just adjust the recipe more or less by division.
The other thing to do is make the 4 portions and freeze or refrigerate the 3 remaining portions for later.

The only problem with dividing a recipe is: say it serves 4 people and requires one onion, a clove of garlic, a pepper and you need only a little water too cook the whole thing (example)...firstly the problem lies with having to use quarter of an onion etc, and then if you cooked a quarter of that lot for the time you need to cook it for it'll dry out if you use even less water/stock for it.

With meat recipes if it serves 4 and you only need to cook a quarter of that amount I don't know how long the thing needs to take to cook.

Also you'd still have to plan ahead to defrost a casserole with meat in it from the freezer the night before, and what if you want something else when you get back from work the next day? I'm really not a fan of doing that, I just want to be able to prepare something for myself, whenever I like.

I just had a quick look on amazon they sell loads of recipe books directed at sole diners.

As I said, for the GI diet. Thanks anyway.