Recipes in Your Own Words

A structured recipe journal for writing down meals as you're shown them, in language you'll understand later. Made for ADHD and Autistic adults, and anyone with learning disabilities, dyslexia, or comprehension and memory differences that make standard recipes hard to follow.

Estimated Transit Time: 7 - 12 days.

Description

Being shown how to cook something is the easy part. Someone who knows what they're doing, a parent, a friend, a support worker, walks you through it and it makes sense in the moment. The problem is next week, when they're not there and all you've got is a standard recipe that assumes knowledge ("season to taste"), skips steps ("meanwhile, prepare the sauce"... meanwhile when?), and expects your working memory to hold the ambiguity.

This notebook closes that gap: while you're being shown, or right after, you write each step down in your own words, in the way you understand it. Later, you're not decoding a stranger's instructions. You're following your own, written by the version of you who had help in the room.

Recipe Notebook

Name: Recipe Notebook
SKU: 1005010623266623

$26.00

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Guided recipe layout with ingredients, method and notes

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Durable cover that lives in the kitchen and survives it
Written in your language. Steps in your own words remove the comprehension load of decoding someone else's shorthand. This matters most for dyslexia, learning disabilities, and comprehension differences, where the barrier was never the cooking, it was the recipe.

The lesson doesn't evaporate. When a support worker, parent or friend shows you a meal, this captures it. Their knowledge becomes your instructions, usable when they're not there.

One step per line, in the real order. No "meanwhile," no assumed knowledge. Working memory doesn't have to hold anything; the page holds it.

Builds real independence. Following your own instructions instead of asking to be shown again is the skill this notebook trains, one meal at a time.

One organised home for it all. An indexed notebook on the kitchen shelf beats screenshots, loose paper, and memory.
While someone shows you a meal (or right after), write each step in your own words, exactly how you'd explain it to yourself.

One step per line, including the "obvious" ones recipes skip: take the big pan out, turn the stove to 6, set a timer.

Ask the person showing you to slow down while you write. That's part of the teaching, not an interruption.

Next time, cook from your version and tick steps off as you go, so losing your place doesn't matter.
Number every step. "Step 1: get out the big pan" is a legitimate step.

Write exact timings and stove numbers so future-you never has to judge "until golden."

Draw it if drawing works better than words. Your notebook, your format.

Bring it to support sessions: a meal per session builds a personal cookbook fast.

Note the traps: "sauce burns fast," "start rice first."

Recipe Notebook

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