I am in the process of making a couple of cooking videos. Especially cooking as a blind person. Also, doing meal prep videos soon. I'll post the link here once I'm done.

I'm struggling with this too but I've recently found out that you might be eligible for some home services that will have someone come in and help you cook. In the meantime, crock pots are the best thing there is and you can use frozen veggies so you don't have to cut things up. It's hard to give too much more advice not knowing what you like to eat. I would say too that it's worth the time to get assistance through programs like Vocational Rehabilitation and Medicaid or Medicare so you can have someone come over and either help you learn to cook more or just cook with or for you. Shchwann's delivers food and you can pay them with food stamps, so that's an option to get some things. It's not exactly healthy but you won't starve. And as for your Foreman grill, if you can cook one thing on it, why not a few more? It's great for grilling veggies andfish and pretty much anything but corn on the cob (but you can cook that in the microwave). :)

Man, can't go wrong with rice and beans. Cheap and easy with possibility to make it really special.

Goodwill has rice cookers for undr $5 all the time. 2:1 water:rice: Bing, Bang, Boom.

If you get dry beans, and soak them the night before you cook them, throwing away the soaking water, put them in a pot with new water and any chopped veggies or meat you like, simmer on low heat for a few hours.

Look for your local Services for the Blind. If you qualify for disability you qualify for them, if you are in the US, which 10 years of disability fighting makes me think you are. They can normally help arrange cooking classes in some way. Sometimes it's a school where you stay in a dorm for about a month and they help with training basic day to day stuff you may be struggling with. I'm starting these classes soon.



You can definitely get good at cooking while blind. They've had a totally blind woman win Master Chef before.

I second crockpot cooking until you get training and feel confident cooking without vision. I have spinal damage so I get not being able to stand to cook, and I often buy some stuff pre-prepped to make my life easier.

A common lunch, $10-15 makes about 6-7 depending on how big I have them

- Butter/boston lettuce, the best tasting one. I could eat a bag of these leaves on their own. I just toss a handful in the bottom of the bowl, then about half of the rest of the ingredients, another handful, then whatever I left aside, ie cucumbers, carrots, cheese, etc.

- Sliced and quartered cucumber, about a third of a cucumber each time unless it's too big / small. Roughly a 2-3 inch section. I wash and dry it each time, but leave the skin on.

- A handful of shredded carrots. Usually I just buy the bag because it's like $3 and the normal carrots are like $2.50

- Sprinkle on cheese, usually shredded taco cheese or parmesan

- 2-4 frozen meatballs, diced, or bacon bits, or chicken if I have leftovers. Some meat, though.

- A glug of italian dressing.

Then I just shake it up and eat it. Mushrooms, tomatoes, croutons, eggs,whatever you like can go in there. I just keep it simple. I can put it together in about 2 minutes. I usually put some of the cucumber aside so it doesn't sink into the salad, never to be seen again, when I'm shaking it.

Then, for dinner, I use whatever boneless meat I have and generally a random sauce, plus onions or something like that. Barbacue sauce, boneless chicken, onions, a little hot sauce, and let it cook on low all day. Shred, mix well, and then you have tasty sandwich fillings that go well with easy steamed veggies.

I really like black beans and chicken covered in salsa. The beans soak up the heat and become little spice bombs, and you can wrap it up in a tortilla with rice, lettuce, tomato, a little sour cream if you fancy it, etc. It might even be good in a salad with some ranch or something.

I like the recipes here as a base idea of how to mix and crockpot cook things. https://totallythebomb.com/33-3ingredient-slow-cooker-recipes

If you ever come into extra money, I would consider the optigrill tbh. I literally set it, sit while it preheats, toss on my food, close it, and wait for it to chime at me that it's done. Steak, burgers, chicken, fish, pork, hot dogs, everything comes out great on it. I just run the plates and wiped out drip tray through the dishwasher after every few uses and use non-stick spray, and I've had no issues. The closest thing to an issue I've had is the one time my hotdog rolled away from me and rolled into the dip tray, like an asshole. And the overstuffed quesadilla leaking out cheese, but that was expected.

Not knowing what you like, this is hard to gaige a specificly catered answer to this. However, if you eat meat, meat is your friend. Get packs of porkchops , get some seasonings, put some seasonings in a bowl, massage the seasonings into the meat. Get an oven tray, cover it in foil, lay your pork chops on there and throw it in at 375 degrees for about 30 minutes.

You can also do this with chicken. Rice is easy to make and you can fry some steaks and such. The real answer here is how much are you willing to learn? How fearful are you of heat? Stoves? Popping oil? Bowling water? Setting your oven? Failing and really understanding that meals aren't going to always come out right and that it's all trial and error. What you learn from a previous time you adapt to another. You just need to be willing to have the patients and you can't fear the things listed above, or you'll never get help.

I love my crockpot. You can make some really healthy, tasty food in them.

Need cheap and easy? Beans, cornbread and fried potatoes.

Make roast vegetables. Just get out a cooking pan, clean the veggies, dump them into the pan, and put oil and salt on it. Tasty, reasonably healthy, and easy to make. Hardest part is probably getting the veggies out, but not that hard with a spatula.

Are you a braille reader? I developed reusable braille container labels that can help you identify what’s inside cans and jars. They just clip on to the outside of the can. Simple as that. If you are into making chili, soups, casseroles, or whatever else that cans make difficult, these will help tremendously. We tested them with grocery delivery services like Instacart, and the delivery people were happy to quickly clip them on the correct product. I’d be happy to send you some to try.

Tons of stuff. My friend Christine Ha has done a ton of videos on YouTube about this very topic. Look her up.

IDK if you are completely blind or partially sighted. I didn’t cook a lot before my vision loss, so I find it challenging now. One of the things I do is pre-measure seasonings, because there’s no way I can see the tiny granules coming out of the containers. I’ve been picking up sets of measuring spoons and cups with various colors (i.e. 1/4 teaspoon is white, 1/2 is red, etc.) to make it easier. We bought colored cookware, so the handles stand out against the stove. I put bump dots on certain buttons of the microwave like the 5 and start keys. My wife makes a lot of delicious slow cooker meals that are easy and cheap, so you might consider that route. You can find all sorts of kitchen items at second-hand shops and yard sales to make it cheaper to get the items you need.

As far as food budgeting, you can have two of the three: cheap, good (and/or healthy), and convenient. I find that cooking from scratch seems expensive, but is overall cheaper and healthier. We can buy a Knorr rice packet for $1.00, or make a lot more rice from scratch for that same dollar. We get a lot of staples from the Dollar Tree like herbs and seasonings, beef and chicken stock, frozen vegetables and fruit, etc. However, not everything is cheaper there by price per ounce, so it pays to shop around and get to know where you can get the best prices for the food you like to eat. We also watch the sales ads and plan around that, so if chicken is on sale one week we usually have a chicken-based meal plus stock up a bit. I’m fortunate that my wife is an amazing cook who is also frugal.

Could you place a stool/chair in the kitchen so you can sit and rest as needed while cooking? Have you applied for food assistance like SNAP? Are there food pantries in your area that you can access to make your food budget go farther? I applaud your desire to become more independent and healthy and I wish you great success.