#the sad bastard cookbook

[indelibleevidence]

People with low spoons, someone just recommended this cookbook to me, so I thought I'd pass it on.

I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?

These people seem to get it, though. It's very simple in places. It's basically the cookbook for people who think, 'I'm really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can't think of anything else to cook that won't exhaust me'.

And it's free!

#disability #spoonie #low spoons recipes #the sad bastard cookbook

[zillanovikov]

Being an author is great

I love when the zon algo (incorrectly) says that I reviewed my own books so they're no longer for sale

Especially when it's the Sad Bastard Cookbook which is a free cookbook ebook for people with depression or chronic pain or other struggles. Please don't take that away from my readers, daddy bezos. People need it.

Why would I review my own book? Other people have already done it. More than a hundred times!

Luckily you can still get the pdf on Itch. Because it doesn't nerf books based on a bad algo with zero human oversight.

If you want the print book, um, pls the patient. My author friends assure me that zon does this all the time and it should be sorted out soon. Even if I'm screaming every minute while I wait.

This message was written on Friday Jan 19, 2024. If you see this message later, it might be fixed? Fingers crossed?

#the sad bastard cookbook #writeblr #publishing

[existencebringsonlypain]

only read more if you're NOT my mom. this is about the gift, so seriously mom don't look

okay guys. so. my parents recently split up, and I'm living with my mom. My mom only knows how to cook like four things, and they're all "stick em in the oven for 45 minutes and they're done!" style cooking. I remembered seeing a post talking about the Sad Bastard Cookbook, for those with low spoons- aka, cookbook with a fantastic sense of humor, requires very little effort, and has pretty decent results. I think she'd love it if I gave it to her as a Christmas present.

Here's the conundrum- the PDF for this cookbook is free, zero dollars. The printed version is sixteen dollars new. Obviously I don't want to spend sixteen dollars on something I can get for free, but I know my mom would both appreciate it more and use it much more often if she didn't have to go to her computer for "every" (like three per) step.

So, physical's the way to go, right? Well, maybe not. My mom used to bind her fanfics herself, back when she had these hundred-page-long fics. She's got binders full of pure fic (which, turns out, actually just mostly smut). So the other option is, I take advantage of her paper and ink while she's at work and print it all- here's hoping she's got enough ink- and print it all, hole punch, and bind. I'm willing to do that, but I will not do it happily, and it'll be mediocre at best.

#MOM DON'T LOOK AT THE TAGS #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ #——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— #oh how i love the emdash #so long! the emdash i mean. not like. goodbye #anyway. tag time #existenceunrelateds #poll #polls #tumblr poll #tumblr polls #sad bastard cookbook #the sad bastard cookbook #advice #i need advice #give me advice #book binding #binding books #christmas #christmas gifts #....... #idk any other tags #low spoons #no spoons #sorry if im invading those tags

[novelistparty]

the dinner scale:

food - anything you can grab handfuls of

snack - an item you'd usually never call a meal or part of a meal

ugh-I-can't-even-dinner - a lot of a single item from the previous categories

"dinner" - same as the last but you maybe put it on a plate or used a napkin, you probably wouldn't tell everyone about it, but otherwise no worries bc you're eating plenty

dinner - you purposely prepared something for a meal but still wouldn't tell people about it bc people might thoughtlessly and unfairly criticize you for eating a bowl of plain rice or noodles as a meal

True Dinner - 2 to 4 distinct items you might have prepared in some fashion that complement each other. A sign that you have a LOT of energy and it might also worry you because you wonder how long it will last

Dinner for Other People - likely something between "dinner" and True Dinner that you might never otherwise make and it will exhaust you and the people will enjoy it and think you adept and capable but the next night you might eat a bowl of popcorn and graze leftovers to be super clear: I recommend eating enough to feel well, no matter the form nor manner. People should offer you full respect for doing what you are able to care for yourself, no matter how far it falls from "a proper meal" for more information about getting enough food when you just can't even, try The Sad Bastard Cookbook. I like it because reading it undid all of the "proper" ideas I had about eating and let me throw out the shame I carried around about eating whatever as a meal when times are tough

#my blog #the sad bastard cookbook #the word 'dinner' has broken now - i look at it and wonder who ever put those letters together for any useful purpose #the tags on posts here about the sad bastard cookbook are really nice

[faintingviolet]

The Sad Bastard Cookbook (CBR15 #22)

When my brain is cooperating, I enjoy cooking. But as a neurodivergent person who lives by herself and absolutely has no idea what is presently in my refrigerator at any time (yes, even immediately after going to the grocery store) keeping myself fed has always been an interesting challenge that I attempt to hide from the world around me. I also tend to get stuck in eating the same thing over and…

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#cookbook #late stage capitalism is trying to kill us #low spoons meals #marten norr #night beats #nonfiction #rachel rosen #read harder challenge #struggle meals #the sad bastard cookbook #We Need Diverse Books #zilla novikov

[sawyerquinnbrown]

I hate to cook for myself. Give me a house of 6, 10, 20 people and yes, cooking is fantastic! I have Contributed! I have Made Others Happy! But just for me? No, no, no. Too Much Effort. When I make food for myself, it is Curséd food. Not delicious; merely sustenance. So for a while there I was subsisting on frozen food that I could make in the toaster oven. Okay by ‘a while’ I mean years, and by…

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#cooking #food #the sad bastard cookbook

[sabotabby]

Please enjoy Marten’s latest Sad Bastard TikTok!

#cooking #food #the sad bastard cookbook #depression #coping #food tiktok #tiktok

[thethreedeadkings]

Life is hard. Some days are at the absolute limit of what we can manage. Some days are worse than that. Eating—picking a meal, making it, putting it into your facehole—can feel like an insurmountable challenge. We wrote this cookbook to share our coping strategies. It has recipes to make when you’ve worked a 16-hour day, when you can’t stop crying and you don’t know why, when you accidentally woke up an Eldritch abomination at the bottom of the ocean. But most of all, this cookbook exists to help Sad Bastards like us feel a little less alone at mealtimes.

https://nightbeatseu.ca/works/the-sad-bastard-cookbook/

The Sad Bastard Cookbook  is funny, realistic, and kind. It’s vegetarian/vegan. It’s a community-built project. And the e-book is free. It’s hard to survive late capitalism and we want to help.

#Honestly had to blog this one #The Sad Bastard Cookbook #Food You Can Make So You Don't Die #text and image belongs to the creators #mental health issues #depression #mental illness #mental health #food #cooking #cookbook #tumblr #tumblr stuff #free

[ryxxer]

i went and got the Sad Bastard cookbook, free on their website, but I was literally prepared to pay any price for it, and it's such a good read, and offers some great advice for all cooking levels 🍒

#sad bastard cookbook

[dullahandyke]

Also I need to stsrt collecting sad cookbooks I need it. I have a ciuple but I want one that takes me by the hand and sloooowly introduces me to foods one ingredient at a time. Full page of recipe titled 'YOU CAN EAT A BELL PEPPER'

#so far i have the sad bastard cookbook (not enough structure) #and cooking for blokes (a bit better structured and also gender affirming but not wuite there) #there was one i saw for arfid that i might sail the seven seas for in a bit #but i should pribs get back to dgs

[zillanovikov]

Hey tumblrinas, author of Sad Bastard Cookbook here. After seeing yet another person say they read the Cookbook OUT LOUD to someone, I realized the world needs a Sad Bastard Cookbook audiobook version.

I've never made an audiobook. Some questions:

Does the world actually need this? Does anyone want this besides me?

Does anyone know stuff about making high-quality audiobooks and I can pick their brain?

Does anyone know stuff about distribution of audiobooks and I can pick their brain?

A big question I have is about cost. We made the ebook free because while it cost us ... many, many hours of labour, it didn't cost us actual money. Also because it matched our ethos. The print book costs money because you can't give away free print books to everyone who should have one in the entire world without having some other source of income. And because we aren't independently wealthy and the royalties from the print sales is helpful. Capitalism. Hate it, can't escape it.

I guess one of my questions if people know is: what are the up front costs of making a high-quality audiobook? And what distribution exists for free audiobooks?

We had such a hard time getting a free version of the ebook on Amazon, and it's still not as good as the free version on Itch. But since Amazon is a giant monopoly and Itch is a tiny independent site, there's so many people who would never see the Cookbook if it was only on Itch. So "discoverablity" is also an important factor.

I also gotta ask my co-author and illustrator for thoughts but they're asleep and/or afk and once an idea enters my brain I gotta talk about it immediately. GOTTA. So like, please tell me stuff you know and you want but obvs I need to listen to my crew when any decisions are made!

#the sad bastard cookbook #publishing #audiobook

[lilyaceofdiamonds]

I made shepherds pie out of vegetables i bought at the farmers market last weekend and meat i had in my freezer (and a slightly expired pantry can of peas shh) and it took me all fucking day but it surprisingly turned out really well and now i have five tupperware containers of leftovers in my fridge/freezer.

Putting grated cheese on top of the potatoes was a god-tier idea, thank you recipe variations blurb

#my ramblings #i’ve been living off Sad Bastard Cookbook vibes for the last two weeks #but going to the farmers market meant i had a Reason To Make Something #even if that reason is ‘use the fucking carrots before they go bad for once in your fucking life’ #fuck it took soooo long though #this is why i don’t cook often

[scifimagpie]

My friends made a thing!

#cookbook #poor #sad bastard #night beats #free

[lilacface]

Long story short: I had the munchies and a bland peach.

Ive seen people do fruit sandwiches before, but it looked too... wet. Soggy bread is awful. So I made my own thing.

Its kinda a cinnamon toast mixed with a peach crumble I guess? Lmao

Just writing it down so I can remember to try it again.

No ingredient measurements. Eyeballs only.

I mixed brown and white sugar together with some cinnamon, ginger powder, and oats.

Smoosh that all together with some butter.

Cut the peaches as thin as possible and then lay them over a piece of bread. (better crunch if you give it a wee bit of colour in the toaster first)

Place oat and sugar mixture in an even layer over the peach slices.

Chuck in the mini-oven, air fryer, whatever. But watch close because the sugars can burn real quick.

Bake until the top layer is crispy and the peaches are just a lil caramelized around the edges.

I wish I had ice cream for the side because it would have scored 100% in my books.

#I hate cooking/baking so when I make something I actually like it's a cause for celebration #I need to get that sad bastards cookbook

[callmeblake]

presented with no comment

here and here

#tumblr funny #and I think I am going to 'dismiss' them both for awhile #sad bastard cookbook

[euphreana]

So I try to not talk about it much, but I struggle with the effects of depression periodically and the last few weeks haven't been great to me in the meals department. I found out about 'The Sad Bastard Cookbook' today though and it's been so useful. (Free to download too!) Lots of ideas for no-spoons meals.

https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

Just in case someone else could use it

#got some extra energy today so going grocery shopping with some ideas from the book #living off cereal and protein bars isn't fun #I love cooking when I can and wish I could now because I just had a ton of dietary restrictions lifted #it's upsetting