Even if you’re tired as fuck, ya still gotta eat. This is a motivation spell I made to get my depressed ass out of bed and my stomach filled.
Why grilled cheese? Because I like grilled cheese. I associate it with happiness and home. You can replace this with any food or non-alcoholic drink that you have to prepare, as long as you love it!
What you need: -ingredients for your recipe (for grilled cheese, I just butter the outside of the sandwich and slap some colby jack in the middle) -something to cook it on -optional: herbs for energy, happiness, or protection.
1. Think about what you are going to create. Envision it. Taste it in your mind. 2. Stretch. Move your body around. 3. Pouring your intent to get up into your words/thoughts, repeat, “My body fills with creative energies. I lift myself up and create a grilled cheese” and on the third time, hoist yourself up and out of bed. (if this doesn’t work, start with sitting up and go from there) 4. You’re up. Gather your ingredients, wash your hands, and prepare the food. 5. Sit and eat. Before you take a bite, give yourself some credit! Be proud of yourself.
I have depression. Although I am medicated, I still have the days where I can’t even get out of bed to feed myself. Right now is one such moment, so I put this together. It’s sorta a spell, sorta not, but it works for me, so it doesn’t really matter what I call it.
I was at our local bakery recently and came across a loaf of bread quaintly branded as a “Peasant Loaf”. It was selling for over $6—the irony of this was not lost on me.
In retaliation I have decided to post what I actually think of as a peasant loaf, but with the luxury of finely ground modern flour which is less likely to break your teeth because actual peasant loaf bread is like chewing rocks unless you’re soaking it in soup or stew.
This is a very simple loaf, it requires no special tools and is a fairly forgiving dough for beginners to work with. Also it has the added bonus of looking like an expensive artisan loaf, but costs literal pennies to make once you invest in the basic ingredients.
So what do you need?
Ingredients:
Plain flour (or wholewheat if you prefer)
One sachet of active dry yeast.
Salt.
Water.
Tools:
Bowl
Mug
Prep and bake time total: 2 hours 45 minutes.
Yep, that’s it. You’ll notice that there’s no quantities listed up there, and that’s because you’ll be using the mug to measure everything. This helps to make sure your quantities are consistent, and means that so long as you have a mug and your ingredients, you can make bread. Heck you don’t even need a bowl, it just makes clean up easier.
Again I had Elusive Tumblr Dad help me take the photos so be warned this is going to be fairly image heavy under the cut 😀
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