what’s this site all about ↓
Cooking is one of my favorite things in the world, but having an ADHD brain can really mold your bread— if you know what I mean.
Executive dysfunction and dodgy working memory are no small feat in the kitchen.
So with years of ADHD kitchen successes— and messy catastrophes— I’ve developed a whole buncha helpful skills to manage the hurdles.
I hope that by sharing simple, beginner-friendly recipes and cooking tips, you can leave here equipped with lifelong skills to manage the hiccups of cooking with ADHD. Plus a couple pretty good meals along the way.
About the Recipes↓
New recipes are posted as often as I can!
Ranked by ADHD-specific difficulty
Prep-as-you-go instructions
Flexible meal prep system called Meal Building
All vegan recipes, but substitute away!
(coming soon) Printable PDFs to check off as you go
What else to Expect ↓
ADHD Cooking Tips posted as often as I can!
No advertisements, sponsored posts, or miles-long intros
No health advice, or other anti-fatness/wellness/diet culture nonsense
bites and pieces, a Monthly Email Newsletter!
You ready to dive in?
About the difficulty levels
ADHD comes on strong in the kitchen. Because cooking requires working memory, exec. function, planning and organizing, a concept of time (what's that???), and like, energy, it can be real hard for us to tackle meals.
So, the recipe levels are ranked based on how much overall effort is required to ~make the thing~. This includes steps, hands-on prep, active cooking time, and cleanup (ugh).
Think of this scale from minimal to moderate difficulty, and choose according to what you're feelin that day.
Level 1
Minimal
Level 2
Minimal to moderate
Level 3
Moderate
Hyperfocus
This is gonna be a project
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Some stuff about Grace ↓
I love to share good food, hang out with adhd people, and talk about nerdy science stuff. I hate washing dishes.
Besides running this side, I’m also A
Writer and Journaler
Author of the newsletter bites and pieces
Queer and Nonbinary Person
Ecology Student and Bird Nerd
Houseplant Person and Gardener
Excitable, Big ol Dork
MAY 14-15 AND MAY 28-29, 2022
come to our workshop!
join me and dusty chipura for our 2nd installment of feed your adhd!
Feed Your ADHD is a jam-packed and intensive remote workshop designed to help ADHD adults navigate the organizational and brain-based challenges around food and eating.
We had such a blast running this workshop last year and would love to see you there for round two!
Learn more about it here!
site goals + plans ↓
Once financially feasible, I’d love to work with an ADHD developer + designer to build out a more accessible, faster, and engaging site — here’s what I envision that looking like thus far
printable PDFs for recipes
interactive checkboxes when following recipes
toggles between metric + US measurements
guided flow charts to suggested recipes + tips
quizzes with customized results
“build a grocery list” function
ability to save favorite recipes + posts
if you’d like to help financially support this project + make these goals a possibility, any/ all donations are sincerely appreciated.
Click the “Buy Me a Coffee” link to go to my Ko-fi tip jar, or simply follow this link here.
Most-Loved Content on Grapes Lauren
new? here’s where to start ↓
if you’re looking for someone to tell ya where to go— check out these tried and true recipes, pages, and tips
most loved recipes ↓
you made it to the bottom!
gotta love that ADHD curiosity. scroll a lil further for links to posts based on difficulty level or category. or, just click the following button to get to the blog.
An easy, heat n serve bowl of comfort. Sweet Baked Beans, your fav Salad Dressing, some crunchy Lettuce and Carrots, crispy Hashbrowns, served over a bed of Grains.