Grocery store adhd dysfunction
How for the love of puppies do you go grocery shopping without it turning into an executive dysfunction disaster?!? Whether it’s buying the wrong things, forgetting the main things, buying unnecessary things, buying random things, spending too much, getting overwhelmed and exhausted from the sensory onslaught, the physical act exhausting you, to not being able to accomplish anything after…how do you make grocery shopping not so damn overwhelming?
I hate grocery shopping and everything it entails with a burning passion. Don’t get me started on how much I make cooking with an even stronger bloody passion. I have an autoimmune disease where I have a very strict diet and I have to make all of my own food on top of screening every product before I buy and consume it. So when I shop I have to buy ingredients not prepackaged meals. Then to my horror I have to actually make meals with said ingredients in order to feed myself. I so desperately wish I could just eat out of buy premade food. Having adhd and these autoimmune diseases makes every day and task regarding food and feeding myself incredibly challenging. Worse yet no matter how hard I try I’m AWFUL at cooking I just don’t get it and I end up blowing up my kitchen and taking 3,4 times longer just to get something accomplished enough to consume. Ugh.
So all of it together makes the thought and act of grocery shopping into my biggest enemy. I need help figuring out how to better manage even a little aspect of it all. Any tips or suggestions you have are GREATLY APPRECIATED, thank you!
How for the love of puppies do you go grocery shopping without it turning into an executive dysfunction disaster?!? Whether it’s buying the wrong things, forgetting the main things, buying unnecessary things, buying random things, spending too much, getting overwhelmed and exhausted from the sensory onslaught, the physical act exhausting you, to not being able to accomplish anything after…how do you make grocery shopping not so damn overwhelming?
I hate grocery shopping and everything it entails with a burning passion. Don’t get me started on how much I make cooking with an even stronger bloody passion. I have an autoimmune disease where I have a very strict diet and I have to make all of my own food on top of screening every product before I buy and consume it. So when I shop I have to buy ingredients not prepackaged meals. Then to my horror I have to actually make meals with said ingredients in order to feed myself. I so desperately wish I could just eat out of buy premade food. Having adhd and these autoimmune diseases makes every day and task regarding food and feeding myself incredibly challenging. Worse yet no matter how hard I try I’m AWFUL at cooking I just don’t get it and I end up blowing up my kitchen and taking 3,4 times longer just to get something accomplished enough to consume. Ugh.
So all of it together makes the thought and act of grocery shopping into my biggest enemy. I need help figuring out how to better manage even a little aspect of it all. Any tips or suggestions you have are GREATLY APPRECIATED, thank you!