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Meal Planning for the ADHD Brain (Now with 80% Less Crying)
Let the Robots Handle Dinner🤖
Here’s my real-life ADHD meal planning system these days:
Buy 5 foods that don't make me gag this week.
Immediately forget everything I planned.
Let AI hand me a meal plan while I reheat my coffee and wonder where my life went.
✨ Survival Tips:
If it has carbs and didn’t catch fire, it counts as dinner.
Frozen pizza? That’s a food group now.
Chicken nuggets? A coping mechanism.
Cucumbers? An elite way to make the plate look colorful and trick yourself into thinking you made a "fresh, balanced meal."
Bonus Hack:
I started using AI to plan meals because...thinking is hard.
I literally type:
"Make me a simple 5-day dinner plan using chicken, rice, broccoli, and whatever else a tired, neurospicy parent might have lying around. Keep it easy, minimal prep, low chance of emotional damage."
—and boom: dinner ideas appear.
Honestly? It feels like cheating. Highly recommend.
Next time you’re staring into the fridge like it owes you rent, try typing that same prompt into ChatGPT (or whatever robot buddy you prefer).
✨ Bonus points if cucumbers still make a cameo. (They always do.)
✨ Tiny Lesson: Managing Meal Planning Mayhem
I'm learning that delegating tasks isn’t failure — it’s smart strategy.
Using tools (like AI) doesn’t make you lazy.
Cutting corners to protect your brain is brave.
"Done" is better than "perfect" when you're running on fumes.
If the robots want to meal plan, honestly? Let them.
Your brain deserves a break.
Talk soon,
Tara
CEO of Chaos & Co.
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