I swap the meat out between chicken and beef, but I cook once every 8-12 days. The secret is the spicy mayo/teriyaki sauce with homemade fried rice. Oh and that jar of blueberries, that is my first attempt at basic fermentation!
I swap the meat out between chicken and beef, but I cook once every 8-12 days. The secret is the spicy mayo/teriyaki sauce with homemade fried rice. Oh and that jar of blueberries, that is my first attempt at basic fermentation!
Can I ask how this particular meal works with your limitations? I have strategies I’ve had to implement too, so I’m always interested in how others manage.
I have ultra rare thoracic spinal (between the shoulder blades) issues from that time I fought 2 SUV’s in a death match on a bicycle. I killed them both but they almost got me. They mostly fought each other but my contributions were not insignificant. \s
I was folded over backwards, thus why my damage is in a region around the ribs. Posture is my problem, as in it feels like I am lifting weights the moment I am upright. It doesn’t matter if I am sitting or standing, being upright at all is a problem. I start degrading quite a bit within a few minutes, but I am in pretty bad shape after 1 hour. Anything longer than 1 hour generally starts impacting my sleep and that can take many days to weeks to recover from. If I push continuously and ignore it all, I’m stupid AF, totally unstable, and a mindless zombie that can’t sleep for more than a couple of hours per day.
All that said, it takes me ~30 minutes to make chicken, veggies, and white rice. I eat the plain rice for a couple of days before I make fried rice with the rest. The rice takes me 35-40 minutes to make. This means I have far less opportunities to push myself or create problems because I am limiting how much I must do while upright for the most number of days and can usually set up so that I’m in decent shape when I need to cook.
I have a tendency to get hurt by random small things like if I turn my head left or simply pick up something funny. There are all kinds of little interrelated (feeling) issues primarily on the left side of my spine. I only have a little more than half my range of turning my head left. Initially I had damage from the base of my skull and C1 all the way through T8, so I’m quite the basket case. Like, I can lift heavy things some times, but others, a light bag of groceries will cause something in my back to shift and I can’t sleep for weeks. I’m trying to minimize these ridiculous injuries for the most part. Like I tried working and faking it for 3 years, but I was a zombie and still dysfunctionally incompetent. I’m managing the rollercoaster ride to make the ups and downs as tolerable as I can.
I tried major pain killers at one point too, and while I’ve been very healthy the whole time, the opioids made me intolerant to dairy, so this is my dairy free solution too.
Oof. I have a different musculoskeletal problem with a far less interesting story behind it, but functionally a quite similar limitation that also prevents much… verticality. I completely hear you on the mindless zombie complications too, it’s fucking awful. I’m sorry we have both found ourselves in this shitty boat!
The meal makes good sense. 30 mins is a fair bit though, so I can see why you space it our that far.
If you ever feel like something a little different, maybe one of my tricks might help you. I order delivery… but I extend it out by nuking potatoes and frozen vegetables. A potato the size of my fist takes 3 mins 30 in my microwave, broccoli and spinach similar from frozen. The tinned tomatoes I buy are also a “heat up and add flavors” quick option because they’re not watery.
One curry from my local Indian place that has way too much sauce turns into 3 meals with a much better nutritional balance when I dump any or all of those in. They’re done before the food even arrives, i don’t have to watch an appliance with a flame, or clean much, and the cost per portion reduces to something sensible.
TIL that’s a thing. I just have to ration mine to a ridiculous degree at a low dosage or i get the more common peristalsis problems in a very unpleasant way.
Amen. And I wish you the best of luck in doing so.
Kudos to you for being as resilient as you are and taking things in stride. I hope you got a very big settlement from the accident.