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Food, Nutrition, and Cooking Resources

A masterlist of all of the resources I've collected so far on how to make cooking and feeding yourself easier as well as any resources related to food, drink, and nutrition...

🍜 Making cooking/baking easy:

'The Tray' by nutmegan17 on tiktok (viewable within Tumblr)

11 Essential Items for a Disability-Friendly Kitchen

11 Tips For Making Meal Prep Easier to Save Spoons

14 Energy-Saving Cooking Tips When You Are Chronically III

Tips for baking with hand pain

Tips for baking with brain fog

🥦 Nutrition and vitamins:

Protein is Trending But What Are Dietitians Saying?

How Much Vitamin C Is Too Much?

What is fibermaxxing? And what do experts say about it?

🥗 For specific conditions:

The 14 Best Foods to Eat When You’re Nauseous

The low histamine diet resource from Johns Hopkins' ME/CFS Clinic

Food and ME/CFS fact sheet

Homemade oral rehydration solutions for people with POTS

Salty snacks for dysautonomia

The Vital Role of Nutrition in Arthritis Management

Foods that can help with obstructive sleep apnea

Medications and foods/drinks:

Which foods and drinks interact with medications?

Medications and teas you shouldn't mix

🍛 Recipes:

Easy instant pot and air fryer recipes by Jules Sherred, Disabled Kitchen and Garden

The Sad Bastards Cookbook by Rachel A. Rosen and Zilla Novikov

Epicurious Expeditions – Instagram and YouTube creator

📚 Book recommendations:

Cooking is Terrible: Sadly, You Still Have To Feed Yourself

Good Enough by Leanne Brown

Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools,Tips, and Recipes for the Disabled Cook by Jules Sherred

☕ Other:

App recommendation: Fig Food Scanner (for people with dietary restrictions)

Eight Responses to Use When Someone Comments on Your Food or Body

This is a topic I'd really like to expand so if you know of a good 'get prepared' resource, please send it my way – asks (including anons) and DMs are always open or you can tag me in a Tumblr post ✌️

aroundmeblackbats

does anyone have any resources for housebound or bedbound disabled people that are written by other disabled people?

do not want shit from doctors, thank you. disabled people, please.

(I can leave my house, sometimes. I can leave my bed, sometimes. I just... mostly don't, and I pay for it so much when I do.)

queerlypeaceful

@hillbillyoracle

hillbillyoracle

Heyo I got you

Or at least, I've written a lot about this.

Here's a masterpost of resources that I've personally found useful

I'm still in the process of annotating all of it but it is all labeled and grouped by topic.

If that's a little much here's the original post it was based on. There's some overlap, some unique.

Here's a write up the personal care kit I keep by my bed

Here's how I handle my room since environment impacts me a fair bit

Here's how I handle my laundry specifically (no fold)

When I have more energy, here's resources I use to manage my house

I wrote a free minizine called The Bedside Companion that has a quick reference of my favorite ideas and resources that you can keep by your bed (good for when looking at a phone causes headaches).

I also wrote a free minizine called Fuck Goals about how I manage task overwhelm with being disabled and not being able to do anything consistently.

I'm working on zome full length zines on meditation with chronic pain and some other spoonie stuff but Go Date Yourself might be a good one too if you find yourself alone a lot. Also free.

I hope this gives you a place to start or inspires something for you!

hyperionblackthorne

Heartfruit

local-lesbian-tree-demon

they should invent a body that feels normal to be inside of

sawed-on-shotgun

i am of the sincere belief that if ur on ur computer a lot you should visually customize it to high hell and back not just for funsies but also because it has literally made me less depressed before. its kind of like how rearranging your bedroom is good for your brain, yknow. i do stuff like this every few months

sawed-on-shotgun

and if anyone wants to follow suit

LIVE WALLPAPER: wallpaper engine. only thing on here that costs any money (its like 5 bucks on steam). im sure theres free alternatives but this one has a lot of presets and stuff so its less hassle and its what i use. might be a bad idea for lower end pcs tho

CUSTOM TASKBAR: retrobar on github (lots of different options)

CUSTOM CURSOR: theres a lot of places to find these, but rw-designer open cursor library is a good place to start

DISCORD: betterdiscord, im using the clearvision v7 theme with a custom background

EXTENSIONS (these are for firefox, might or might not exist on other browsers):

tabliss for the new tab theme

stylus for tumblr -> specifically the 'tumblr - custom dashboard pallette' theme for colors + bg, and this for the pre-twitterifcation layout

enhancer for youtube for custom youtube colors

the browser theme is just one i found on the firefox theme 'store'

athenagray

“So... We got the exploding diarrhea. Here's my advice for anyone who doesn't have it yet:

It's going to take a minute for the government to pin down where this is coming from, and then issue a recall, because the FDA has been gutted. But, I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt : this is coming from Taylor Farms produce, and you will see them recalled.

You'll want to avoid all Taylor Farms produce in the grocery store. They supply McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, about any fast food place you can think of.

Raspberries, watermelons, cilantro, and the veggies you're hearing about are not causing this many people to get sick. It's the shredded lettuce, specifically, that's the problem. But, you'll want to stay away from every type of produce this company puts out, because one strand of shredded lettuce is all it takes to contaminate bushels.

Taylor Farms is the source. Taco Bell proactively pulled their produce from their restaurants. You're going to see other fast food places doing this, and probably will see that before the government names a source. The FDA knows this, but they can't come out and tell us all until there's proof, which takes resources and research, which takes manpower, but the FDA has been cut by about 20-30%

During the Biden term, onions at McDonald's had ecoli. We knew this because DNA testing was done quickly and they were able to narrow it down to one place that caused the outbreak. And, it was traced back to Taylor Farms. This isn't going to be solved as quickly though.

When you get this, make a virtual appointment to your PCP - a "same day sick" appointment. Tell them someone in your family just tested for this and was positive and was prescribed Bactrim. If you go in person, they're probably going to make you poop in a cup and wait until results come back to prescribe.

You'll know when you get this. Trust me on all of this.

You'll want to stay hydrated because this parasite damages the lining of the small intestine. Your small intestine, in turn, secretes more water into the gut, and less nutrients and liquid are able to remain in the body. So no matter how much you shit, you're going to want to drink. A day of this leads to dehydration if you don't increase your fluid intake, and a few days will land you in the hospital.

If you have headaches, weakness, muscle cramps, dizziness, or an increase heart rate - hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Go to the ER for fluids if you can't drink enough.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk. Brought to you by America's 250 birthday celebrations, workforce reduction in the FDA and CDC, and viewers like you.

Please feel free to share this.

And, MAGA - don't blow up the comment section. I argued with y'all on COVID bc I was afraid y'all would die, but I really don't care if you get explosive diarrhea.

And no, ivermectin will not help this at all.”

penumbralwoods

every time someone realizes they dont have to pick between being a boy or a girl an angel gets its wings btw. and also extremely loud cheering can be heard in the distance from me specifically

penumbralwoods

btw if you've ever wondered why i make posts like this and get really obnoxious about nonbinary positivity. this is why

and for all of yall that are still figuring it out or aren't getting the support you deserve:

xfhsfh

@this-is-nonbinary-joy

My goal isn’t to be happy, my goal is liberation - i think a lot of my strengths come from my ability to put thoughts into words, but this nagging feeling that it doesn’t matter, or I have no right to be heard over others - may be limiting, or even perpetuating oppressive structures.

I wrote a goodbye letter to my family the day before my 32nd birthday - I spent 10 years trying to get through. Trying to find a way for fundamentalist Christians to fully love and accept me as a lesbian, genderqueer, occultist - their daughter, sister, family member. We live in the southeastern U.S., around VA and NC.

What I’ve learned intimately about dogmatism, authoritarianism, internalized oppression and white supremacy…..it’s not useless knowledge. So I know my goal is liberation, first from my family of origin, then my own self-imposed issues, and to participate in the construction of a better world as a way of life.

I’ll have my masters degree in positive psychology by January 2027 - I want to get my PhD. I feel a responsibility to make use of the knowledge I’ve earned - so I’m just sharing here to start somewhere. I think that’s all for now. Bye

#me #personal

vulturevanity

I think we need to kill the sentiment that people lose their right to personhood once they do something bad enough

vulturevanity

I don't know who needs to hear this but you need to stop dehumanising people even if those people are "abusers" or "creeps" because you need to understand that you are not immune to doing something equally as bad

Abusers and creeps are not some species of especially heinous animal or alien or monster wearing the face of a human. They're people. And you NEED to drill it into your head that they are people because you NEED to remember that people are capable of doingn heinous shit. And you are a person. And your loved ones are people.

By emotionally classifying people who have done heinous things as subhuman filth incapable of thinking and feeling and acting just like you and me, and by using that emotional dehumanization as a reason to deny those people any compassion or support on a systemic level, you risk becoming blind to abuse/violence perpetrated by someone close to you or even yourself. Because if "abusers don't deserve rights", then you won't ever want to admit or accept that you or a loved one is perpetrating abuse, and that makes stopping the abuse or preventing further abuse much harder. This is how you end up excuaing abusive behaviour on the grounds that, since you don't see someone as a disgusting subhuman pile of garbage therefore they can't possibly be An Abuser, Trademark

vulturevanity

And here'a the even harder pill to swallow: since the world isn't split into "abusers" and "good people", in the same way you or someone you love can inflict abuse/violence on others, the people who HAVE inflicted abuse/violence on others can, in fact, change and become better people

There is no bottomless chasm of moral uncleanliness that someone can run off and fall into and get stuck in forever. People can do better. Yes, even those people. You HAVE to accept this. Otherwise not only is there no motivation for anyone to try and do better (which is when people become stuck in a cycle of violence and abuse they don't want to escape), but your idea of a perfect justice system doesn't look any different from Literal Christian Hell. And I HOPE you understand that Literal Christian Hell is, to put it very lightly, not a good justice system.

infectiouspiss

you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

urie

i haven't seen anything about this on my dashboard, so i wanted to share. ICE gestapo killed another human being on tuesday. he leaves behind three sons and his wife, who he has spent the last 35 years building a life with

there is a gofundme supported by the league of united latin american citizens set up to help with funeral costs, legal fees, and supporting his family moving forward.

please give if you can and share if you can't

ladythatsmyskull

nitpickspot

So, what you're saying is, under no circumstances should we be reposting the above image as much as humanly possible?

daysleftofsecondterm

939 days left of HIS fuckup

caffedorzo

so exhausted by how fundamentally anti-human the capitalist world has become. like ageing, getting fat, being slightly inefficient, and making mediocre art are all extremely normal and extremely human activities, why is every corporation trying to convince us to spend all our money fighting that

queenrhaenyras

in case you haven't heard, parts of venezuela were recently hit by a series of earthquakes, affecting communities across the country.

as venezuela is my home country, all of this hits especially close to home. thankfully, my family and loved ones are safe since they were in cities not as severely affected. however, many others have not been as fortunate and are now facing the aftermath of these events.

years of political and economic instability have left many communities with limited resources and infrastructure, making it even more difficult to respond to emergencies like this. there are reports of people who remain missing, and many families are still waiting for news about their loved ones. rescue efforts have been made even more difficult by shortages of equipment, ambulances, and other emergency resources needed to respond to a disaster of this scale.

if you're able to, please consider sharing information, supporting verified relief efforts, or simply helping spread awareness about what is happening.

here’s a link where you can donate if you can