Cooking, or not. How do you eat?

Personally I have a halogen oven, air fryer, microwave and gas hob. I also have a slow cooker. Cooking is made simple and easy during the winter months by making a casserole or stew in winter and any leftovers can be put into containers for either the fridge or freezer. In summer my main go-to is salad. I drink lots of flavoured water and have fruit regularly. I also top up with multivitamins.

I must admit that I should have more dairy.

Same here eeL too tired to cook and cheap! Although I dislike cooking anyway. So any excuse. As I live alone, I don't have to do it!

Boiled eggs on toast, melted cheese & beans on toast! Just buttered toast LOL.

Aww that is sad 😔But at least you can have some 😊 I have Diverticula and I find I can't eat too much fibre.

Hi @sben - from the Benefits and Work Guide 2018:

''Safety and supervision
….the DWP have argued that a claimant can only score points for being unsafe if harm is likely to occur on more than 50% of the occasions on which they attempt an activity.

So a claimant with epilepsy who has seizures twice a week would not get points for needing
supervision when cooking. This is because they could not show that it is ‘more likely than not’ that they will have a seizure on any given occasion when they prepare food.

However, on 9th March 2017, in CPIP/1599/2016 a panel of Upper Tribunal judges held that the DWP were wrong.

Instead, they said, the decision maker should look at whether there is a real possibility that harm might occur and also at how great the harm might be. The greater the potential harm, the less likely it needs to be that it would happen on any specific occasion.

So, if there is a real possibility that a claimant with epilepsy might have a seizure whilst cooking then then they reasonably require supervision for this activity, even though the chances of a seizure happening on any specific occasion may be quite small.

They should score points for needing supervision even if they don’t actually have anyone to provide it.
But the Upper Tribunal went even further than this.

They ruled that where a claimant is at risk all the time, then they may also be at risk when carrying out PIP activities that do not carry any additional likelihood of harm.

So, a claimant may not be at any additional risk of harm if they have a seizure when using the toilet or taking medication, for example. But, because they are at risk whatever they are doing, then we would argue that they still reasonably require supervision during these activities, because they cannot do them safely without supervision.''

So, it depends on the severity of any seizures, whether you get any warning beforehand, & the outcome of a seizure. Try & give a couple of recent, detailed examples for any of the activities as to exactly what happens, & any untoward consequences.

@Jimm_Scope - it's a reference I've kept to hand for quite some time (years) as I believe it should help people with their PIP claims as far as epilepsy, etc may be concerned, tho I'd have missed sben's query without your reply to them!