The Food Programme: How We Eat: Living Alone
IS it dinner, supper or tea in the evening? People used to have dinner in the middle of the day and tea at night, or did you call that supper? It was a class thing.
But research suggests one in three households in Britain - from students to widowers - eat alone.
The Food Programme's foray into how we eat was a thought-provoking story about how life has changed and the efforts needed to eat well when you are on your own.
A series of interviews with students revealed what you'd expect. One girl confessed hers was a liquid diet - and add on crisps with hummus as a hangover cure.
A boy said he bought a 25kg pack of basmati rice - it could last him six months he sighed. You do get so tired of rice.
There were confessions of super noodles in bed; pasta in bed; and pizza in bed.
Anyone for sausages and the dregs of an old bottle of Harvey's Bristol Cream at 3am... You know who you are.
The two women who run a community cafe and created the Lonely Club proved inspirational.
If you had diabetes, you'd have no problem talking about it, but loneliness is not something people like to admit to, said one of them. She is, she said, hugely passionate about loneliness.
So the women set up The Lonely Club - and the name did not seem to put people off, more than 35 people walked through the door on the first day and it has grown and grown.
In a hospice, a group of people who lost their life partners get together to enjoy cookery lessons.
Lamb and apricot casserole proved a big hit. They make wonderful meals and they also make friends.
Sharing food, presenter Sheila Dillon pointed out, is a big part of being human.
