#the sad bastard cookbook

[zillanovikov]

Sad Bastard Expectations

It's 2025, and we're sadder than ever!

Maybe it's time for a Sad Bastard Cookbook sequel? Maybe a spin-off for parents of small children? Maybe both?

I'm new here. What's a Sad Bastard Cookbook?

Glad you asked! We wrote a cookbook full of judgement-free recipes you can make when you're suffering from mental illness, physical disability, poverty, or anything else late-stage capitalism throws up that makes basic self-care feel impossible. Some of the recipes were our own, some we collected from the community.

The ebook is free--you can download a copy here if you wanna check it out.

I'm a community! Or at least, a Person! Can I contribute my recipe for survival food?

YES PLEASE.

If you have a survival recipe that you make for yourself, or to feed a baby, toddler, or small child, please share that recipe here.

I���m a fan of the original Sad Bastard Cookbook—when will the new ones be here?

We really have no idea. We’re in the very early planning and writing stages of the two projects, but when we have more information, you’ll probably see it here first!

[indelibleevidence]

People with low spoons, someone just recommended this cookbook to me, so I thought I'd pass it on.

I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?

These people seem to get it, though. It's very simple in places. It's basically the cookbook for people who think, 'I'm really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can't think of anything else to cook that won't exhaust me'.

And it's free!

[faintingviolet]

The Sad Bastard Cookbook (CBR15 #22)

When my brain is cooperating, I enjoy cooking. But as a neurodivergent person who lives by herself and absolutely has no idea what is presently in my refrigerator at any time (yes, even immediately after going to the grocery store) keeping myself fed has always been an interesting challenge that I attempt to hide from the world around me. I also tend to get stuck in eating the same thing over and…

[sawyerquinnbrown]

I hate to cook for myself. Give me a house of 6, 10, 20 people and yes, cooking is fantastic! I have Contributed! I have Made Others Happy! But just for me? No, no, no. Too Much Effort. When I make food for myself, it is Curséd food. Not delicious; merely sustenance. So for a while there I was subsisting on frozen food that I could make in the toaster oven. Okay by ‘a while’ I mean years, and by…

[astranite]

AMAZING!!!

Learning bookbinding, and after making a few blanks for practice, decided to go with @zillanovikov 's The Sad Bastard Cookbook for a first serious piece

[confessionsdiaz]

The sad bastards book is so fun where else will I find "Our society makes it financially costly to be physically or mentally unwell because it doesn’t consider human life to be intrinsically valuable." Under a section on pancakes

[dullahandyke]

Also I need to stsrt collecting sad cookbooks I need it. I have a ciuple but I want one that takes me by the hand and sloooowly introduces me to foods one ingredient at a time. Full page of recipe titled 'YOU CAN EAT A BELL PEPPER'

[zillanovikov]

sad bastard cookbook on kobo

if you have a kobo and you wanna do this sad bastard a solid, please "buy" my free book so my number go up and the empty vastness in my soul can be temporarily filled

[sassysnowperson]

YES!! @primarybufferpanel you're amazing, that was exactly the one I was thinking of!

Help me out - there's some good info on tumblr about eating with low spoons/depression. Two I'm trying to hunt down again:

A cookbook, available for free on a platform like itch.io or something, that was all about making simple meals for low energy days. From what I remember the creator made it available as pay what you want and/or free because they wanted people to have it.

A page-sheet, illustrated with a bunch of staple foods (bread, eggs, cheese, peanut butter) and ideas for how to combine them.

If you've got any ideas, or a resource like it that you love, send 'em my way, would you?

[scifimagpie]

My friends made a thing!

[lilacface]

Long story short: I had the munchies and a bland peach.

Ive seen people do fruit sandwiches before, but it looked too... wet. Soggy bread is awful. So I made my own thing.

Its kinda a cinnamon toast mixed with a peach crumble I guess? Lmao

Just writing it down so I can remember to try it again.

No ingredient measurements. Eyeballs only.

I mixed brown and white sugar together with some cinnamon, ginger powder, and oats.

Smoosh that all together with some butter.

Cut the peaches as thin as possible and then lay them over a piece of bread. (better crunch if you give it a wee bit of colour in the toaster first)

Place oat and sugar mixture in an even layer over the peach slices.

Chuck in the mini-oven, air fryer, whatever. But watch close because the sugars can burn real quick.

Bake until the top layer is crispy and the peaches are just a lil caramelized around the edges.

I wish I had ice cream for the side because it would have scored 100% in my books.

[callmeblake]

presented with no comment

here and here

[novaneedstostop]

ive been remindind of all the ways i think the hs kids would be weird about food so here we go head cannon time (i might mess up the alpha kids i dont have as good a grasp on their characterization as id like)

June: most 'normal' about food, pastries can get her pretty emotional tho

Dave(hc her as tgirl but dunno what im doing for name): will not eat when being watched(waits till everyone starts eating usually) because of his shades wont eat at all around dirk

Rose: kinda knows how to cook for herself, but only with random shit you'd find in half stocked cabinets(think sad bastard cookbook type shit) both her and dave are the "ive never had a non frozen meal in my life" post

Jade/Jake/Roxy/Dirk: all of them constantly ration without thinking about it, just as a group

Roxy: waits till everyone else has eaten before she does(from conceptofjoy: makes everyone else food all the time)

Jane: avoids branded stuff like the plague, and tends not to trust food she didnt make herself out of habit

Roxy/Dirk: constantly thinking about potential allergens and food hazards that might pop up

Thats all i can think of but yeag

[damnbluewires]

quite a pickle!

a comm for @zillanovikov, my greatest writing inspiration, go check her books out! especially the sad bastard cookbook that features said humble pickle

i said the word pickle way too many times now...

[euphreana]

So I try to not talk about it much, but I struggle with the effects of depression periodically and the last few weeks haven't been great to me in the meals department. I found out about 'The Sad Bastard Cookbook' today though and it's been so useful. (Free to download too!) Lots of ideas for no-spoons meals.

https://traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bastard-cookbook

Just in case someone else could use it

[saphiracat]

I find the Sad Bastard Cookbook [x] exceptionally helpful on those days.

i must not get takeout. takeout is the wallet-killer. takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. i will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. when hunger is gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.