{"id":191127,"date":"2010-01-17T14:18:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/dieting-and-nutrition-diabetes\/47703-i-cant-cook-any.html"},"modified":"2010-01-17T14:18:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T19:18:18","slug":"i-cant-cook-any-more-my-cooking-machine-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/191127","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t cook any more!! My cooking machine is broken!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It is coming up on the first 3 months since diagnoses and I am still getting failing grades on cooking meat.<\/p>\n<p>All my life I have flowered and fried EVERYTHING. That or dump it in the crock pot &#8211; after browning it with flour.<\/p>\n<p>We hate pork chops unless they are fried. We don&#8217;t like chicken anymore. The steak I cooked the other night had to be put in the pressure cooker for 20 min before we could bite it and then it was all stringy.<\/p>\n<p>I need serious help. I have another steak (2 for one sale), is there something I can soak it in to soften it up? If not, I may just have to put it through the grinder and make hamburger out of it. \ud83d\ude41 <\/p>\n<p>I have a stainless steel Wok that I have never used. Do you think it may be time to start learning how to use it? I saw it at a flea market for $5 and had to have it, since I knew those kind were expensive. Can&#8217;t pass up a bargain. <\/p>\n<p>Snacks are easy, how hard is it to open an avocado and hand a man a spoon? \ud83d\ude00  Breakfast, scrambled eggs, no problem.<br \/>\nGet closer to dinner time and I start sweating, what kind of meat shall I ruin tonight? My poor husband, I feel so sorry for him. First he gets this disease\/condition that requires him to give up most all the foods he loved, and now his wife, who he always bragged on her cooking, can&#8217;t cook any more. We have dinner and I promise him a tasty snack in 2 hours. That is just pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Any advice?<\/p>\n<p>Janice &amp; her poor, pathetic, starving Husband<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is coming up on the first 3 months since diagnoses and I am still getting failing grades on cooking meat. All my life I have flowered and fried EVERYTHING. That or dump it in the crock pot &#8211; after browning it with flour. We hate pork chops unless they are fried. We don&#8217;t like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":304,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}