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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1317156" data-attributes="member: 41816">Hi and welcome.I am sorry to hear about your husband and your cooking difficulties.  It must seem quite overwhelming sometimes.   Are you OK with the shopping?Please keep reading and posting.  The forum is a great place to learn, exchange ideas, recipes, and realise that none of us are alone in this!I am a batch cooker.  And at this time of year my slow cooker is my best kitchen gadget.  I count it a bad day if I don't get 6 portions out of it, whether it is a curry, mince and vegetables, a whole chicken with lemon or spices.  This week I did pork steaks with tomatoes, onion and barbecue spices.  It took five minutes to throw together, 8 hours to cook (while I ignored it), and will feed Mr B and I three times each, with microwaved green veg on the side.  I usually freeze some so we don't eat the same thing for days on end.No cook breakfasts can be ham and cheese, yogurt and berries, or coffee with cream, or a hardboiled egg with a sliced tomato.Edited to add: apologies [USER=356922]@Elsby[/USER] i wrote my post completely forgetting you are vegetarian.  Sorry about that!  Now that I HAVE remembered, I can say that my slow cooker does some fabulous veg soups, ratatouille, veg curries and suchlike.  Also things like overnight whole oat porridge (lower carb than the instant porridges).</blockquote>

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