easy to prepare and eat --- with broken elbow

bethom

My mum buys ready chopped frozen onioins and mushrooms, think they are fairly cheap.

Otherwise have you got a food processor and a SC?? I think they would be quite handy. You can operate both with one hand and with the SC it would be heavier than a saucepan so you are less likely to accidently tip it like you could stirring one handed with a saucepan and end up scalding.

If you havn't got either, mebbe a relative has that you could borrow off while you are incapacitated??

zombiecazz

Get a slow cooker and then your OH can prep the meat and veg for you the night before and your 7 year old could throw everything in the pot and you can turn it on.
menu plan and get you OH to open the tins for you either before going to work or the evening before they are needed.
Tuna mayo, banana, peanut butter and jam, salad (grated carrot, cucumber and mayo) and thinly sliced cold meat sandwiches would be easy for 7 yr old to prepare with supervision.

good luck with this.

culpepper

alice's_mum wrote:

msg, aspartame and other such things are banned from dd's diet (she's got trichtilomania - she pulls her own hair out!) and these have been id'd as being triggers

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so i try to cook from scratch,
will check out the ready meals and maybe get mum round to do some cooking i can freeze, likewise mil, pasta i can manage, though getting from boiling water to pan is fun.

any other ideas?

My DD used to do that too! She used to be super anxious.I took her to the Doc who asked her did she need help with it and she said no and never did it again.

Re the pasta..Have you got a chip pan? You can cook the pasta in the chip basket and then just lift the whole thing out at once,I do this for blanching veg . If you use the pasta shapes you can just spoon them out of it and they'll be easier to eat single handed too.

alice's_mum

thanks bethom, zombiecazz and culpepper, have got both foodprocessor and slow cooker and hadn't thought of using either:rolleyes: think must have banged head when fell and broke elbow!!!!! have got processor on to worktop, but will have to wait for oh to get sc out, (it's not been usded for a while). i'll defo get oh to chop things the night before and then i can throw everything in with help of ds before he goes to school.

thanks for all your ideas,:T i was starting to think i'd live on pasta for the next 4 - 6 weeks, but now i can start plaaning meals and stick to my budget and away from the msg and other junk, am off to search the receipe sticky for sc meals.

aimeelister

Good luck with it all and well done for even thinking of doing things. I remember breaking my wrist (left) and having it in a cast for only a short time and boy did it drive me dotty. I'm right handed but with both parents left handed and living at home then i couldnt do things like use the scissors.

hope if all sorts itself out soon.