I’m bored.. + some random thoughts

I think I should also do my own thread of a similar topic as other users are doing (‘I can’t cope’, ‘battles’ etc.).

@MissGremlin @rav3n

@rav3n is it possible for you or a mod to edit the title of this thread or no? It seems that I can’t edit it so just thought I can ask you about it if that’s the case 🙂

@Blackcloud you can always start a new thread if you want to. Sometimes it's helpful to have different ones depending on what you want to talk about at the time.

How are you going today sweet?

@MissGremlin youre right, perhaps I should post a new thread and make it as part of my ongoing vent/rant type thread instead of this one. Will do that when I can 🙂

I wanna cry cause I really wish I can get myself to get into cooking in general, and even better, doing it on a regular basis. But considering the different ingredients you’d need to get and stuff and thought about wasting money on that haha…I mean I guess it’s better to do that rather than not right? I hate the thought of finding cooking to be the most mentally challenged and draining task because to me it is.😭

I’ve been looking at the easy cooking healthy meal recipes, sigh….and then i may have to go to different grocery stores in one go in the CBD to go look for all those ingredients I need to get for those recipes 😭😭😒😒😒

I don’t know if I’ll be able to do this and don’t know how I’m gonna cope with it.😔 I can’t go out right now since it’s like about 30 degrees in here.

@Blackcloud sounds like a good idea.

Oh sweet I can hear how overwhelmed you are by cooking. Have you thought about doing some basic things first? There's alot of meals that are known as 'one-pan' dishes, as in you only need one saucepan/frypan to cook them in. They usually only have a few ingredients so it may make it a bit easier for you and less stress to start with. I think starting off simple and working up towards making some bigger things might make it easier and less overwhelming.

You can do this, i believe in you. Just take things slowly and don't push yourself. Sending you big hugs sweet ❤️

aww @Blackcloud i absolutely hear you, i struggle with cooking too. it's so draining planning the meal, buying the ingredients and then actually cooking it too. it's totally okay to be upset, but i also think you CAN do it. it might take some time and practice to figure out what sorta are easy to cook and saves you money, but i'm sure you'll figure it out.

something that's helped me is making a routine + sticking to similar foods each week. for example, breakfast i always have weetabix or granola with milk. so basically getting a box of granola/weetabix will last a few weeks, and then a can of milk too. then making things like salads help cos those can last long too (and also requires no actual cooking, just chopping).

also about the title thread - i can change the title on your first post but it won't be applied to all the later posts unfortunately. honestly your current title thread is pretty cool! the other option would probs be making a new thread with a new title.

@MissGremlin yeah i was able to find a few of them - especially one of them just then that only requires you to use a fry pan i think? I can attach it here as well to see if that meets the description as 'one-pan'

https://www.bbcgoodfoodme.com/recipes/chicken-courgette-fried-rice/

can you think of those types of recipes that only has a few ingredients required in it? its ok if you can't, just thought i can know as well so that i can refer to it later on.

thank you 🫂💕

@Blackcloud yes that's a good one. There's alot on google that you can look up, there's also some good cookbooks that you can buy with one-pan meals.

I wish I could share some here for you but I don't know how to share links. If I can work it out I'll try and pop some here for you but brain isn't up to trying to figure it out right now, sorry sweet.

@rav3n I appreciate the kind words, thanks so much! 💕 Yeah I guess now and then onwards I might just have to deal with it all whilst feeling mentally drained and exhausted whilst being in the process of cooking a meal 😂 thats how i think its gonna go. I've had attempts with cooking even the simplest meals last time, like pasta - but in terms of using the stove to heat it up, I think i need to get better at that because last time I used the stove to heat it up, like everytime i heat it up to medium or medium-high with the lid to cover the saucepan whilst boiling, the bubbles keep appearing and coming out of the saucepan which caused the bubbles to kinda spread around..? but i have learnt recently that I would need to boil something with the saucepan without needing the lid to cover it when it comes to heating it up at medium or medium-high. i hope thats the correct way of boiling it. i usually had to lower the temperature down just for the bubbles to not pop up and spread again. i didnt care if what i made was good quality or not since that would be too tiring to try and worry about it

also one time i tried to cook/fry-pan one of the green vegetables (can't remember the name) and heat it up on medium im pretty sure? however when I did that, some parts to that looked like it burnt and im not sure what i did wrong there when ive followed the recipe correctly...

yeah i get about the breakfast part, but those ones you dont need to cook them and you usually would only have them for breakfast, whereas for lunch and dinner you would normally need to make something via cooking, y'know?

i see, that's all good. thank you again 🙂

@MissGremlin that's all good, and no worries. also, you can just share the links by just copy the link and paste it here, very simple.

@Blackcloud thanks for that. Phone doesn't always like to copy and paste for me which makes things hard.