Cooking/recipe advice with disability

myonlysunshine

Serendipitious wrote: »

I used to make my own version of Coronation Chicken, to serve with salad and crusty rolls etc.

Cooked chopped chicken
Handful of sultanas
Tub of plain soya yoghurt - large
Curry powder.

Put yoghurt in a large bowl, keep adding curry powder till it tastes right, add chicken, add sultanas, stir well, refrigerate and serve cold.

Used to do this for parties, was always asked for recipe.

Ooh sounds delicious thanks! We are all chicken eaters and I've managed to the get the youngest on salad now too 😊👍🏻

Cafekate

Hi I to have physical disabilities mainly arthritis in my back and hands that don't like to cooperate as well as constant pain .What I've found useful is to batch cook when possible, get children to take stuff out of oven, ok mine aren't disabled. Also get a food slicer/chopper which makes prep work such as grating and chopping so much easier. Nothing wrong with pre prepared ingredients either.If bending a problem would a multicooker be any use.

Hope you get more answers soon.

suki1964

I'm totally exhausted right now, have been the past 4 weeks and am really struggling to cook for the 3 of us so I kind of know how you are feeling. I'm also struggling with nausea so have no appitite myself and really cba

However needs must.

Balanced meals are out the window tbh. It's whatever I feel I can muster up right now so there's more fruit and salads being bought so no one gets scurvy

I find I have a spurt of energy between 2 and 4 That's when I head in the kitchen. But in order to get anything done I have to meal plan

But that's me and probably doesn't help you......


Stick a batch of mince in the slowcooker with some chopped carrots, peas, chopped onions. Make two big shepherd pies, use instant mash if need be, or slice tinned spuds over the top. One for now, one for another day. Serve with baked beans and have fruit for dessert

Fish pie, another easy dish. Use a sachet of sauce mix if need be.

Jacket spuds, halved, middles scooped out and mixed with corned beef, piled back in, topped with cheese and baked again till hot and gooey, served with a salad

Buy ready made pastry and jars of sauces if it cuts out the time you need to be in the kitchen. I sometimes wish I could after I've spent 2 hours making a curry from scratch and see it wolfed down in 20 mins barely touching the sides lol. If you or husband are roasting a chicken , roast two and stick one in the freezer for another day. Indeed as much as possible make two of everything, one for the freezer. I do this a lot, if making cauliflower cheese I buy the biggest cauli I can find, making yorkies, I double up, cabbage Always the biggest, the left overs get covered and in the fridge to be nuked for another day

I also make use of hubby on a Sunday as I'm preparing dinner. He peels the veg and washes up around me so that's when I tend to do my doubling up

Oh and I couldn't cope without my food processor. Even on my roughest days I can prepare something with the help of that. Chopping, slicing, grating, mixing, blending, all done at the press of a button

pipkin71

suki1964 wrote: »

I'm totally exhausted right now, have been the past 4 weeks and am really struggling to cook for the 3 of us so I kind of know how you are feeling. I'm also struggling with nausea so have no appitite myself and really cba

However needs must.

Balanced meals are out the window tbh. It's whatever I feel I can muster up right now so there's more fruit and salads being bought so no one gets scurvy

I find I have a spurt of energy between 2 and 4 That's when I head in the kitchen. But in order to get anything done I have to meal plan

But that's me and probably doesn't help you......


Stick a batch of mince in the slowcooker with some chopped carrots, peas, chopped onions. Make two big shepherd pies, use instant mash if need be, or slice tinned spuds over the top. One for now, one for another day. Serve with baked beans and have fruit for dessert

Fish pie, another easy dish. Use a sachet of sauce mix if need be.

Jacket spuds, halved, middles scooped out and mixed with corned beef, piled back in, topped with cheese and baked again till hot and gooey, served with a salad

Buy ready made pastry and jars of sauces if it cuts out the time you need to be in the kitchen. I sometimes wish I could after I've spent 2 hours making a curry from scratch and see it wolfed down in 20 mins barely touching the sides lol. If you or husband are roasting a chicken , roast two and stick one in the freezer for another day. Indeed as much as possible make two of everything, one for the freezer. I do this a lot, if making cauliflower cheese I buy the biggest cauli I can find, making yorkies, I double up, cabbage Always the biggest, the left overs get covered and in the fridge to be nuked for another day

I also make use of hubby on a Sunday as I'm preparing dinner. He peels the veg and washes up around me so that's when I tend to do my doubling up

Oh and I couldn't cope without my food processor. Even on my roughest days I can prepare something with the help of that. Chopping, slicing, grating, mixing, blending, all done at the press of a button

Some great ideas Suki

mirry

Hi, I struggle in the kitchen due to having eds/pots syndrome.
Some things I make....

melt Boursin cheese in a pan, then add cooked pasta and ready cooked meat/fish, peas.

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Tin of curry sauce over some chicken fillets or sliced mushrooms, pop dish in oven. Once ready, I cook some frozen individual rice bags in the microwave for 3 mins.

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Stir fry: I throw the bag of mixed stir fry veg in a wok, add in a tin of tuna/salmon or cooked meat. Stir fry sauce. I cook some noodles in the microwave and throw that in too.

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Packets of savoury rice. Boil in a pan. Serve with fish cakes & lemon slice.

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Egg, oven chips and beans

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Jacket pot cooked in microwave, topped with coronation chicken.
Use ready cooked chicken mixed with mayonnaise/curry powder/sultanas.
Serve with salad.

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Sausages cooked in the oven, served with smash, veg,gravy.

myonlysunshine

suki1964 wrote: »

I'm totally exhausted right now, have been the past 4 weeks and am really struggling to cook for the 3 of us so I kind of know how you are feeling. I'm also struggling with nausea so have no appitite myself and really cba

However needs must.

Balanced meals are out the window tbh. It's whatever I feel I can muster up right now so there's more fruit and salads being bought so no one gets scurvy

I find I have a spurt of energy between 2 and 4 That's when I head in the kitchen. But in order to get anything done I have to meal plan

But that's me and probably doesn't help you......


Stick a batch of mince in the slowcooker with some chopped carrots, peas, chopped onions. Make two big shepherd pies, use instant mash if need be, or slice tinned spuds over the top. One for now, one for another day. Serve with baked beans and have fruit for dessert

Fish pie, another easy dish. Use a sachet of sauce mix if need be.

Jacket spuds, halved, middles scooped out and mixed with corned beef, piled back in, topped with cheese and baked again till hot and gooey, served with a salad

Buy ready made pastry and jars of sauces if it cuts out the time you need to be in the kitchen. I sometimes wish I could after I've spent 2 hours making a curry from scratch and see it wolfed down in 20 mins barely touching the sides lol. If you or husband are roasting a chicken , roast two and stick one in the freezer for another day. Indeed as much as possible make two of everything, one for the freezer. I do this a lot, if making cauliflower cheese I buy the biggest cauli I can find, making yorkies, I double up, cabbage Always the biggest, the left overs get covered and in the fridge to be nuked for another day

I also make use of hubby on a Sunday as I'm preparing dinner. He peels the veg and washes up around me so that's when I tend to do my doubling up

Oh and I couldn't cope without my food processor. Even on my roughest days I can prepare something with the help of that. Chopping, slicing, grating, mixing, blending, all done at the press of a button

Thanks Suki some great advice! I try and do a corned beef hash when I can which goes down ok(ish!) didn't think to cook two chickens at once so will do that too, anyone use frozen mash? I think I need to be more open minded about what I can do realistically, I think everything that's not whole food is laden with salt and bad for you, but then we end up with beans on toast or pizza so I've obviously got to get my head right!! 😂

myonlysunshine

mirry wrote: »

Hi, I struggle in the kitchen due to having eds/pots syndrome.
Some things I make....

melt Boursin cheese in a pan, then add cooked pasta and ready cooked meat/fish, peas.

---

Tin of curry sauce over some chicken fillets or sliced mushrooms, pop dish in oven. Once ready, I cook some frozen individual rice bags in the microwave for 3 mins.

---

Stir fry: I throw the bag of mixed stir fry veg in a wok, add in a tin of tuna/salmon or cooked meat. Stir fry sauce. I cook some noodles in the microwave and throw that in too.

---

Packets of savoury rice. Boil in a pan. Serve with fish cakes & lemon slice.

---

Egg, oven chips and beans

---

Jacket pot cooked in microwave, topped with coronation chicken.
Use ready cooked chicken mixed with mayonnaise/curry powder/sultanas.
Serve with salad.

---

Sausages cooked in the oven, served with smash, veg,gravy.

Thanks Mirry, some great ideas, will def give them a go 👍🏻😊

myonlysunshine

Cafekate wrote: »

Hi I to have physical disabilities mainly arthritis in my back and hands that don't like to cooperate as well as constant pain .What I've found useful is to batch cook when possible, get children to take stuff out of oven, ok mine aren't disabled. Also get a food slicer/chopper which makes prep work such as grating and chopping so much easier. Nothing wrong with pre prepared ingredients either.If bending a problem would a multicooker be any use.

Hope you get more answers soon.

H Kate, sorry to hear of yoru struggles too, I have a food processor but I never use the thing, il def have a look into that, a friend mentioned special stool that you can use to sit on whilst you prep food which I'm going to look into 😊

suki1964

Do look at getting your food processor out and using it. Really does make life easier. I made a batch of fairy cakes in five mins whilst I was throwing a stew together the other day

Another thought for you , if you have a plan of what you want to cook, could you not ask the boys to get everything out of the cupboards and put into easy reach before they go to bed the night before ? That will save your energy from stretching and lifting.

Do definitely look at getting a stool. Another thing we have is an electric tin opener as mum has arthritis. Any aid that will make life easier is worth looking at

ivyleaf

This thread on Mumsnet might be useful. I have M.E. myself but still haven't got around to reading through it

http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/food_and_recipes/2514575-Very-low-effort-meals-needed

I hope the link works.