Yes, times are tight and money needs to work hard. When you are working with autistic burnout, skill regression and executive dysfunction, it’s challenging. Learning to cook for myself, with pleasure, is a new self-care activity. I have always loved cooking, but the cooking I did for other people was masking and coping – if I cook wonderful food for these people, they will love me. So, I’m relearning to cook for myself, and get that same pleasure from self care.
This week, my meal prep for breakfast and lunch is a little more labour and time intensive. With some fresh groceries and ingredients I have in the pantry, breakfast is $5.06 per serve and lunch $3.75 per serve.
What’s on the menu for these meals, that I’m prepping today?
Sweet potato salad: roasted sweet potato, pumpkin and carrots, with tuna, lentils and spring onions, and a dressing made with cottage cheese, honey, beetroot hummus and balsamic vinegar.
Breakfast pita breads: eggs mashed and boiled and mixed with spring onions, and goat cheese, with rocket, in pita bread.
I drive rideshare for a living, and I take a well-filled tuckerbag with breakfast, lunch and snacks, water and coffee. So breakfast and lunch need to portable, and a good sized insulated tuckerbag is perfect.
This week, then, this is the menu:
- Breakfast pitas
- Cheese and crackers with sliced apples
- Sweet potato salad
- Almonds and cashews
- Cacao protein bliss balls
The Auld Skald's Fudgel 