Cooking for the carer

white knight — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 23:37:47 GMT

I am aware that many people aren’t good at cooking. Fair enough to. But, there are some recipes out there that are so easy a 5yo child could do.

If you are not working, depressed and unmotivated, what if you could spend 15 minutes on a recipe and your working carer arrives home with a cooked meal? And you are still in bed?

One of the best tools for the kitchen we found is our slow cooker. If you haven’t got one get one. And buy the larger model.

Take this recipe.

Cut up two chicken breasts into cubes

Cut two medium onions

Fry them in a fry pan until they are brown. Put aside

Dice up any vegetables

Place all of the above in the slow cooker with one litre of chicken stock and salt and pepper

Done.

Your carer walks in 6 hours later and presto. You’ve made him/her smile.

Just because we have depression and we feel unmotivated doesn't mean our carer has to carry the total burden of home life and work life. We should look after them the best we can. Gestures like this can go a long way to preventing their burn out.

Do you have an easy recipe you can recommend?

Good luck

Tony WK

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