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I cooked for myself every day for 30 years and in restaurants for 5 years .
I can't any more because I can't hold a pan any longer or stand up without
support.
I have seizures and I use a machine at night so I don't stop breathing.

http://www.charcot-marie-tooth.org/a...t/overview.php

http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/

http://www.sleepapnea.org/

Sounds like you have one of the more severe cases. I'm sorry to hear
that. Even with CPAP, the broken nights are going to exacerbate the
other problems.

Is there anyone who could cook batches of stuff for you that could then
be frozen in single portion lots? A nice variety of low fat,
calorie-counted home cooked meals that you could simply defrost and zap,
followed by fresh fruit, home-made pure fruit smoothie frozen lollies
and the like would probably be more to your taste, more filling, and a
lot better for you than factory processed foods. Frozen low fat yoghurt
deserts, fresh ones, and occasional Skinny Cow treats are permited as
well, just for fun.

If you could get together with a friend and provide recipe and
ingredients and swap those and advice for muscle power, you could both
end up with a freezer full of delicious meals and soups that would fill
you up and not bloat you with excess salt (Subway are particularly bad
for that), flood you with chemicals and what Jamie Oliver calls
'bollock-burgers' (made with 'mechanically recovered meat', or animal
sludge that is mostly fat), or are bulked out with useless stuff like
guar gum.

The Weight Watchers recipe books are full of excellent recipes that
work, and many are very good for freezing. I recently helped a friend
make a vast batch of several different soups like this for a her father
in law, and elderly gent dying of non-Hodgkinson's Lymphoma, who needed
some decent nutriton that was easy to prepare, tempting when he was
exhausted, and could be frozen in single portions that were very zappable.

I tend to batch cook soups, and some stews and casseroles. I also
freeze the 'spare' portions from 4 person recipes as there are only
three of us. It gives us a chance for a decent home cooked meal on
those days that the fibromyalgia takes over and I'm incapable of
anything remotely related to cooking.
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