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Cooking!

aimosan

Is it just me, or is cooking and catering for yourself a difficult everyday task?  I understand the importance of being healthy so I like to make nutrionally balanced food, but recipes that are full of words can be quite hard to follow.

Things I struggle with:

Not knowing if the food can be frozen and eaten at a later date

Is the food been cooked enough?

Is it still fresh?

Can it be reheated?

 

Cooking classes maybe an idea, but that involves people and only certain ingredients.  Unfortunately my literal mind doesn't let me guess if foods are fresh or not.  Even though it maybe OK to freeze fresh prawns, I don't know if it's OK to freeze fresh fish.  I know now you can, but even though they are both seafood they are both completely different ingredients, so my brain wants to know how to use every single ingredient.

Because I want to eat healthy, but also in big batches so I can freeze and save money, I want to use ingredients like meat, seafood, grains, etc, but I have no idea if recipes I make can be frozen or need to be thawed before cooking.  One book that has helped me is these step-by-step picture cook books.  I discovered them recently and thought it would be a good idea to make my own step-by-step recipes with pictures when I make foods.  I've also tried the Healthy Good Food app on the iPhone, it is good in a way because it tells you what recipes are freezable.  I would really like to use meat and seafood as I really like both, but preparing, cooking, and eating it is very scary.  Could make me sick if I don't do it right!

 

Has anyone else had issues with food and cooking?  And, any ideas to help me?  I need snack ideas as well that don't contain a lot of sugar, I try to limit sugar to help me keep calmer.

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  • Eled said:

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    I don't do cooking and need very exact instructions if I have to do anything because otherwise I'll get the timings wrong and end up having the meat ready half an hour before the potatoes or something.

    Same, I dont have the ADHD issues though. What I have is a bad habbit of fogetting that the meat substratethis particular mind happens to inhabit needs upkeep, leading to my simply forgetting to eat unless made to becase I was playing with intresting ideas, or being striken with a stabbing headache becase its backingly hot, I'm deydrated badly and all Ive had to drink all day is a mug of super strong coffee. 

    I never forget that I need to eat (I like food too much) but I do often procrastinate cooking far too much because my mind is busy.  Often my mind goes over and over things.  This leads to me needing super-strong coffee to get through the next day.

    I can cook decent meals, with lots of fresh vegetables, but they tend to all be very similar.  And I need to feel that I am doing absolutely everything right in terms of looking after the kitchen and keeping it clean.  There are already countless rules and protocols for it and I still want it to be cleaner and more systematic.  I can't remember letting my (rare) guests help me wash up since I first got my own flat four years ago.  They'd only do it wrong!  They just have to consider themselves lucky to be allowed in the kitchen at all).  I don't eat meat or fish though, which does cut out a lot of the worries about how to store things safely.

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  • Eled said:

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    I don't do cooking and need very exact instructions if I have to do anything because otherwise I'll get the timings wrong and end up having the meat ready half an hour before the potatoes or something.

    Same, I dont have the ADHD issues though. What I have is a bad habbit of fogetting that the meat substratethis particular mind happens to inhabit needs upkeep, leading to my simply forgetting to eat unless made to becase I was playing with intresting ideas, or being striken with a stabbing headache becase its backingly hot, I'm deydrated badly and all Ive had to drink all day is a mug of super strong coffee. 

    I never forget that I need to eat (I like food too much) but I do often procrastinate cooking far too much because my mind is busy.  Often my mind goes over and over things.  This leads to me needing super-strong coffee to get through the next day.

    I can cook decent meals, with lots of fresh vegetables, but they tend to all be very similar.  And I need to feel that I am doing absolutely everything right in terms of looking after the kitchen and keeping it clean.  There are already countless rules and protocols for it and I still want it to be cleaner and more systematic.  I can't remember letting my (rare) guests help me wash up since I first got my own flat four years ago.  They'd only do it wrong!  They just have to consider themselves lucky to be allowed in the kitchen at all).  I don't eat meat or fish though, which does cut out a lot of the worries about how to store things safely.

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