I'm proud of you ralph, for not drinking. How many days has it been now?

It's a pleasure to read your blog, Ralph! I have a crazy - but maybe it's not crazy! - idea: You could (after some months / a year / ?) make a book from your blog - I believe it would be a very motivating and inspirating book with a happy ending. A diary showing how one can deal with such problems and how a strong will and a very rational approach can make changes. The cartoon / joke about success from your previous blog post could be on it's cover ...

Fruits and cereals - what a good choice!

Do you search for recipes on the web? There are also many video-recipes on YouTube (and probably other sites) - it could be helpful when learning to cook some more "non-trivial" meals... And, BTW, the probably easiest way to do some chicken is to buy chicken breast, slice them i to small pieces and fry them in a pan - if you have a good pan, you don't need almost any oil (or you can also add a bit of water) - you can add some herbs... (Sorry, I hope you don't mind this topic here... )

Officially 9, but my last slip was only 2 days. Factoring that in I've been clean 17 days out of the past 19.

Do you search for recipes on the web? There are also many video-recipes on YouTube (and probably other sites) - it could be helpful when learning to cook some more "non-trivial" meals...

I try to search recipes but I don't follow recipes very well, which is part of why people tend to think I have ADHD or something. I start with the recipe, but then improvise based on what's available. Cooking basic chicken breasts is the next frontier I am trying to get comfortable with.

I try to search recipes but I don't follow recipes very well [...] I start with the recipe, but then improvise based on what's available.

It doesn't have to be ADHD . I do the same, on purpose! More precisely, I read several recipes and then I do it my way . Don't you like the creative part of cooking? Maybe once when you'll be more familiar with some basic rules, then you'll be able to enjoy doing it your way. (Maybe I can compare it to learning writing - we have to know the alphabet, the orthography, the grammar, just then we can enjoy writing... poems, for instance .)

I do the same thing but it's not on purpose I tried to force myself to follow a recipe today and ended up cooking a microwave dinner instead. I have to break down into cook chicken, do something else, cook rice, do something else, etc. This is when I'm glad I live alone because it tends to not go over so well with significant others. :cool: