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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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  • I quite like cooking, particularly vegetable curries and pasta concoctions, but because of my OCD, there are some foods I cannot touch, such as raw meat - it would cause me to wash my hands for a very, very long time!. My diet is therefore almost Vegetarian, although I cannot call myself that because I do eat tinned fish (tuna etc), and I sometimes eat ready cooked prawns in a ready-meal.

    My kitchen is very clean and well wiped, and no-one else can do the washing up!. I wash up straight away because I hate food sitting around, and I never eat food after its date. All the rules have to be kept or I would get very anxious.

    I try and eat a varied diet, but tend to follow a certain theme.

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  • I quite like cooking, particularly vegetable curries and pasta concoctions, but because of my OCD, there are some foods I cannot touch, such as raw meat - it would cause me to wash my hands for a very, very long time!. My diet is therefore almost Vegetarian, although I cannot call myself that because I do eat tinned fish (tuna etc), and I sometimes eat ready cooked prawns in a ready-meal.

    My kitchen is very clean and well wiped, and no-one else can do the washing up!. I wash up straight away because I hate food sitting around, and I never eat food after its date. All the rules have to be kept or I would get very anxious.

    I try and eat a varied diet, but tend to follow a certain theme.

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