I have a terrible time remembering which pills I've taken or if I already took my pills so I finally got frustrated and devised a random ADHD hack. I can't always remember if I've taken them, but I can remember if they were upside down or right side up for some reason. So I started flipping them over every time I take them. I can also make sure I took all of them because they should all be in the same direction. I'm perplexed, but it's working. #adhd#audhd#chronicIllness#adhdHacks
Salad is cool. Salad saves time. Salad saves you money. Salad is good for footprint. Ready prepped in the fridge is awesome for health, exec function, good choices & quick meals. Salad is good rebellion, in lots of ways.
Consider just how many nudges you get in shows, on social, endless ads, pushing towards unhealthy, high profit, low nutrition, high cost, highly processed, high environmental impact, food.
I make big batch salads at weekends etc. You save much cooking time by doing a batch. Plus it makes the easiest thing in your fridge healthy -how cool is that?
Variety is endless, but here's ideas.
Base:
✅ soy sauce or tamari
✅ garlic (frozen or fresh pressed)
✅ some frozen chopped herbs (coriander here)
✅ chilli flakes
✅ Tumeric and fresh ground black pepper (that particular 2combo is potent anticarcinogen in med studies)
I'm not a TV chef who can pluck fresh lemons from a tree in my garden. Lemons in the UK are dreadful esp since Brexit. Typically hard, juiceless, turn to rocks in the fridge or go bad really fast if left out. Also ADHD comes with it's own ingredients realities which #ADHDers will understand.
I buy a bottle of already squeezed spanish lemon juice (where lemons are great). It keeps better longer and saves you time.
So many ways to go but here's a good mix of:
✅ beans
✅ lentils
✅ spices
✅ herbs
✅ acid lemonjuice or a vinegar like applecider which is milder
✅ Soy sauce or tamari is a nice & healthier savoury taste
Sometimes I add
✅ sweetcorn too.
Stir it all up so it's mixed properly, don't wait until the bowl is too full.
Batch cook larger portions really is mostly as fast as 1 small cooking when you consider clean up grabbing ingredients everything. Small cooking which you would then have to repeat a bunch of times through the week.
Batch is a cool habit to cultivate if u can, gives you time back. We all need more time right?
Cucumbers are nice crunch like peppers and more low Kcal to add volume to a batch salad.
Now for the scariest word in cooking... Probably the most propagandized foodstuff in history...
Buckle up😂
Tofu is just beans. Call it not-chicken if it helps you process the concept!
If you don't like it you've bought a disappointing brand of Tofu. Or not spiced it. That's all. Tofu takes on flavours like chicken. Raw unspiced chicken is disappointing too, but unlike Tofu, raw chicken makes you sick.
✅ Silk tofu is only for blending into a paste/sauce.
❌ Firm tofu that isn't firm is wrong brand.
❌ Tofu needing pressing & faffing is wrong brand tbh.
✅ Chop open the packet, give it one shake over the sink and it's already firm, tasty (mild taste), ready to eat - this is the brand you're looking for.
So if you've found your Tofu brand it's super easy to cube.
Obviously you don't have to use tofu - but here is the good bit. The salad juices, will be absorbed by the tofu. It's self marinating and very tasty e.g. rather than cucumber & tomato losing juice to bowl, it transfers in to the Tofu. Is a cool tip.
I find batch cooking, particularly healthy food can be really helpful for reducing stress, promoting good food habits, good for executive function & gaining time back from cooking during the week.
I think it's quite step by step logical in case ppl reading it on a foggier executive function day.