I don't like eating by myself so i easily start skipping dinners if I tracel alone. So far, I have been very lucky and found company to enjoy dinner with me.
In Kangding I went to a pub (which I normally don't do while I am backpacking..) and met a nice 28 year old Tibetan girl who owned the pub. She told me great stories about Tibetan life / for example it is still very common that when a girls marries the future husband the families can agree that she marries all the brothers. The actual husband is allowed to have kids with the wife but anyway, she'd be the shared happiness of all brothers.