It’s been nearly two months since DH died completely unexpectedly and my world fell to pieces. He was the cook in our family - able to look in the fridge and conjure something out of the disparate ingredients inside. I can cook but I’ve never been inspired - I’m very much a recipe-follower.
Since he died I’ve had very little appetite and have lost quite a bit of weight and I wasn’t overweight to start with. I’m not really feeling hungry but there’s times when I feel quite dizzy and then realise I’ve only had a cup of coffee for the last 8 hours. I’m struggling to think of anything I actually want to eat and end up eating toast or crisps which obviously isn’t a particularly healthy diet.
I was thinking of having one of the recipe boxes for a few months to get me back into the swing of cooking and eating - which (if any) would people recommend? (Yes, I am aware that there’s a ferocious mark up on them and that I’d be much better off buying the ingredients myself but the problem is i don’t feel up to going through recipes and deciding what I want to eat.). It’s mostly just me and ds here (he’s 23, autistic and severely depressed and had only just moved back home as he wasn’t coping with independent living when DH died) - we’re both veggie but ds has a fairly restricted diet as he doesn’t like many vegetables 🤦♀️ and he’s exceptionally thin (BMI is about 15).