Cooking with a Physical Disability »

selfexplainer:

anxious-and-in-pain:

Tips for cooking with a physical disability including fatigue, being in a wheelchair, and difficulty holding items.

I always keep a smallish office-type chair on casters in the kitchen, use a chopping board on top of an open drawer as my main work surface, keep one long pair of tongs near at hand for grabbing things out of reach, and have basically abandoned the top couple of shelves in my overhead kitchen cabinets to things I only need once in a blue moon since I’ll need the stepstool and a whole lotta spoons to get them down.

Best I can manage for now as an aging single person in a tiny-ass studio apartment. I’m hoping when I reach retirement age in a year that I’ll qualify for some kind of help, but right now my barely-over-minimum-wage internet job earns just enough that I place out of all the assistance programs but not enough to afford a better apartment. Welcome to modern America. :-/