Easy food/meals to make with one arm!

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I've broken my arm.

Dh is cooking but I'd like to be able to make something for myself during the day and next week he's away for three days. No delivery service here!

Any ideas?! Thanks!

I had a very badly injured hand and had to keep it in a sling for several weeks. I was able to hold a fork with my index finger and thumb to hold bread steady to spread soft butter and cut soft food for a sandwich eg cheese.

This looks brilliant tank you!

That sounds like a recipe for having to go back to A&E after you have an accident 🤣. Not worth the risk trying to open tins if it's only for three days.

I would do a combo of getting DH to do a batch of jacket potatoes and grating cheese or making some tuna mayo...keep it all in the fridge and microwave to heat up or have cold.

Ready meals.

Get some sandwich fillers and sliced bread to make an easy sandwich.

Cereal.

Fruit....apples, pears, grapes, berries etc.

That should see you through a few days until he's back and can help out.

No uber eats here!

You can get baked beans in single serve plastic pots - might be easier to open)
Do you have a toastie maker? I can make a cheese and ham toastie (ready sliced ham, cheese, bread) while holding the baby in one arm - appreciate it’s not quite the same!

You could do scrambled egg in the microwave with toast.
Fresh or frozen ready chopped veg.
Microwave sachets of rice.
Jacket potatoes or sweet potatoes
Ready made or frozen mash done in the microwave. Sausages in the oven. Frozen peas in microwave.
Sachets of cous cous.
Ready made fishcakes with a bag of salad.
Waitrose do a huge range of meats different flavours that come in silver trays you can just put in the oven.

Also the ready sliced sandwich thins are really handy.

When I did my arm in years ago it was tins that nearly did me in!

The Co op do the most lovely ready meals and they are quite reasonably priced. I would stock up if I were you and that would be dinner sorted. Or those tray bake meals.

Cereal, toast, fruit for breakfast and sliced bread with fillings for lunch or ready cut vegetables and homous.

For today do you have a neighbor you could ask to open your tin for you?

It's opening tins and packets that's super hard. Managed to open the tomato tin part way but then had to sort of stab at the beef stock plastic things. Anyway it's done now

Well done! An ambitious choice of cooking under the circumstances. With a few tweaks it could have felt a whole lot easier (tetrapak of passata with scissors, a ready chopped onion and the wrapped sort of stock cube) but hindsight's a wonderful thing.

Hopefully this dinner will get you over the chocolate overload and you get back on the wagon with a mainly cake based diet.

Scissors are also useful for packets, pizza, spring onions, some veg/salad if you must.

Sausage and mash

Cook sausages in oven
Ready made mash in microwave

Enormous sympathy. I smashed my little finger in February, had to have an operation, and it's still not right. Fortunately I can now do most things without too much difficulty but the period when I was in a sling and a cast after my operation was tortuous. Thank goodness for the thumb. I could slip things into my left hand and my thumb was able to hold them in place even while the rest of the fingers were immobile. Chopping was a nightmare, though, and so was spreading anything on bread. Is it your dominant hand that's affected? Mine was.

My tips would be: ready meals. Hummus, if you can get the tub open. Soup, roll, cheese, fruit - assuming you can get the soup container open. Good luck.

😅

I've been for a short walk, had a bath (was worried about this one but it was fine). Even managed to wriggle into my dressing gown. Now for a doze film on Netflix.

I really appreciate all the suggestions. A good pair of scissors will be essential and of course they've all disappeared 😒

That sounds beyond painful. I hope you recover soon. This is my third break in five years so I think they are going to refer me for a bone scan 😪

Sounds like a sensible precaution.

Thanks for your sympathy, but it's actually not been all that painful, just extremely annoying. Ah well.

DD has one hand.

She can cook anything you can cook, but things like chopping, the easiest to do is stick a fork in it to balance with the end of her arm (or foot if she's sitting down) and then slice with the knife.
Drain veg into a sieve.
Opening tins trap them in a drawer to hold firm (or get an electric can opener).

We know someone with no hands whose party trick was to peel and slice an onion with his feet.