All about food and cooking - My Life After Divorce : Reasons and Support, UK

Shopping and Ingredients

Question: What did we do in the days before supermarkets, ready meals and takeaways and life after divorce? Answer: We ate proper food bought from local shops, cooked at home and we sat around a table to eat.

Organic versus conventionally farmed

In the zest that you have found in your new life after divorce you are on a healthy eating programme of locally sourced, organically produced food. Aren't you?

Menu planning and making a list

Without getting too Superwoman, or indeed, too Superman about this, planning meals ahead of time can be a great help for busy working mothers and fathers and for those for whom finance after divorce is tight.

Get the right equipment to cook up a good life after divorce: Part One

You do not need an enormous batterie de cuisine (pots, pans and all the kit) in order to be able to produce a good meal for yourself in your new life after divorce. When it comes to cookware, as with so much else in life, quality rather than quantity is what you need.

Get the right equipment to cook up a good life after divorce: Part Two

Laying out loads of dosh for a top of the range mixer may seem extravagant but compared to how much you spent getting married and divorced it's a bargain. Let's face it a good mixer will last longer than the average marriage these days.

Advice about food and cooking for divorced men and women

Despite never cooking anything more adventurous than spag bol it's not too late to kindle an interest in cooking. If life after divorce only holds the prosect of a succession of bad takeaways then now is the time to start.

Advice about food and cooking for divorced men and women: cooking skills

It is a sad fact of life that many people in the UK no longer possess the skills necessary to make a balanced meal. Make your life after divorce the starting point for eating well.

Advice about food and cooking for divorced men and women: cooking methods

Anyone can learn to be a good cook, it just takes a little application and a refusal to be intimidated by all the conflicting advice coming from the food industry and others with a vested interest.