To crowd source a list of ADHD friendly meals/recipes

[Nemorth]

I’m popping this in AIBU for reach. People with ADHD often forget to eat and then when they need to eat they don’t have time to make food so often snack. Instant gratification food.

My DD jokes that we live in an “ingredients” house. When we go out and leave her at home (she’s plenty old enough to be left alone) we often plate up meals for her to make sure she eats.

She’s getting much better. Today she made herself a really pretty looking salad with chicken goujons, followed by apple and peanut butter for pudding.

I’d love to make a list of easy meals so that she can develop her skills with a view to her moving out for Uni in a couple of years.

She’ll make herself toast and baked beans. Or soup.

She’ll happily eat the same meal for days on end and then suddenly will have a sensory ick reaction to it and it will be months before she can eat it again.

The sensory ick thing can affect her making food too.

Meals should have a minimum number of steps, be easy to make and hopefully avoid ick moments. She eats little and often. Probably 5 or 6 small meals a day.

What say you Mumsnet? What meals should I include in her ADHD friendly recipe book?

Thank you.

We do have an air fryer and she is much more adventurous with food since we got it. It’s a really, really basic one. Two analogue dials. One for temp and one for time. The time one ticks down even if meal finished so we turn off at wall or leave drawer open. This basic interface really makes a difference for her.

So the thing being used to cook is part of it. Toaster = easy. Air fryer = easy. MIcrowave (once I showed her the way to do anything in 30 second increments) = easy. Our oven and microwave are quite complicated.

I’m not sure she’d use a slow cooker, she finds everything we make in that too mushy.

I think when we do shopping lessons (don’t laugh, we did this with DS too) I’ll show her things like all the frozen prepped veg and shortcut spices (prepped garlic) etc. I’m also planning to get her an electric grater.

I have a few doodads for making eggs in the microwave and she loves whatever eggy thing I make for her, so those will definitely go in the “take to Uni” list.

Have a look at simply cook. They’re like a basic version of hello fresh and only send recipe and spices. I hate cooking and really struggle with it but manage quite well with these. I pick quick/simple recipes and it’s basically just a case of a bit of chopping, boiling some pasta, then chucking everything into a pan.