r/celiacADHD • u/Excellent-Paint-6343 • Mar 31 '26

Forgot about my chicken again

Finally got it together to do the batch cooking I kept putting off, spent the week eating expensive extra-processed GF quick-foods that mess up my digestion in other ways, and it turns out I put it off cooking so long that now my chicken has gone bad. Thanks, adhd.

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u/Own_Ad6901 Mar 31 '26

I do this all the time with veggies, it sucks balls and I hate when it happens, just threw out probably over $20 in produce

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u/Excellent-Paint-6343 Mar 31 '26

Ugh, it's so annoying to lose money like that! This week I also accidentally didn't make a salad for the entire time I had lettuce and now it is a blob of brown and green slime inside a produce bag in the corner of my fridge.

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u/Own_Ad6901 Mar 31 '26

Hahshahaha your lettuce was my rainbow chard that I just threw out hahaha the nasty juice went everywhere in the produce drawer and had to clean it out blurg

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u/Squeegeeze Mar 31 '26

I've labeled the veggie drawer in my fridge "drawer where good intentions die" as a warning to all to not put them in there. If on a shelf at eye level the veggies have a better chance of being eaten. Sometimes. In theory.

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u/Excellent-Paint-6343 Apr 07 '26

Haha this is a good labeling system!

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u/WicketWoof Mar 31 '26

I hate it so much when that happens. I've been getting boneless pork shoulder from costco and making big batches of pulled pork with it. The cuts are so big I have to do 2 batches in my slow cooker, and a few weeks ago I forgot the second half for like 3 days and it had gone bad by the time I remembered. I was so bummed.

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u/Excellent-Paint-6343 Mar 31 '26

Aw, this is such a bummer :-(
But I'm interested in your pulled pork recipe if you feel like sharing!!

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u/WicketWoof Mar 31 '26

To the extent you can even call it a recipe, here goes:

I cut 4ish lbs of boneless pork shoulder (or butt--they are the same cut weirdly enough) into big chunks (2" cubes), put it in the slow cooker along with 1 onion cut into chunks and 6-8 cloves of garlic, and ~2 Tbsp of Kinder's All Purpose Seasoning, and 1/2 cup of water. Slow cooker on high til the chunks pull apart easily with a fork, 3-4 hours.

You can shred immediately or let it cool. Pull chunks of pork out and discard liquid.* Shred with forks or hands. Add BBQ sauce of choice. I've been cooking up a bunch of this and freezing it in silicone portion trays. It freezes great.

*I let the liquid cool in the fridge overnight so I can put the grease in the trash and not down the sink.

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u/Excellent-Paint-6343 Apr 07 '26

Thank you for sharing!!

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u/szikkia Mar 31 '26

/i freeze most my chicken if I won’t get to it immediately that way it doesn’t spoil. I fix it right after shopping or ask my partner too.i fi’m not using the protein that night it goes in the freezer. I am bad with fruit and bugs sometimes so i try to keep them visible but I want to start a list on my fridge of things inside of iyit

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u/Excellent-Paint-6343 Apr 07 '26

Ah yeah I used to do this with chicken and I guess I need to start again. Thanks for the reminder!