Attempts to cook with a stubbornly ADHD brain

Sarah Gillis Sarah Gillis

Cooking with chronic pain

Cooking with chronic pain has been a real challenge for me. Standing too long, pushing through on “good days,” and then paying for it later—it all adds up. Over time I’ve found little tricks and shortcuts that make it easier, and I’m sharing them here in case they help you too.

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Sarah Gillis Sarah Gillis

Putting things on toast

Toast is the ultimate ADHD-friendly food: quick, comforting, and endlessly adaptable. Here are some of my favourite toast toppings—from simple butter to avo, feta, kimchi, and beyond.

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Sarah Gillis Sarah Gillis

Batch cooking, textures and boredom

“Batch cooking sounds like the dream — cook once, eat for days. But with ADHD, textures blur, boredom hits, and sometimes the food never even makes it out of the fridge. Here’s what’s worked for me, what hasn’t, and the halfway fixes that actually help.”

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Sarah Gillis Sarah Gillis

What I ate this week #1

This week’s edition of What I Ate This Week: my most ADHD meal, a caffeine catastrophe, a one-pot pasta win, and a hot pot that feels like the ultimate ADHD dinner.

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