How to Overcome the Struggle of Cooking for Yourself

Join my new creative course to discover fresh perspectives on how to easily cook just4you.

This video is a 4 minute introduction to the course by presenter and creator, Caroline Rowe.

If you don't bother to cook as there is just you... read on!

Do you cook just for you most of the time? If so, I'm sure you've faced this challenge, even though you know eating well is important for your health. If you'd like to overcome this barrier to self-care and untangle your relationship with food and cooking read on.

Caroline's cooking story

I’ve cooked for myself for a long time and most times enjoy it. I'm a good home cook and delight in learning about food and cooking.

However, even though I loved cooking, I would often not bother to cook as it was just me.

To be truthful, this happened more often than I would admit back then. Then I realised that things had to change as my health needed stronger attention. I needed to prioritise my well-being.

More recipes are not the answer

In need of inspiration, I collected more cookbooks… but the meal size was too large for just4Me and used ingredients not to my taste or required cooking styles I didn’t enjoy using.

So, I still didn’t bother to cook!

I then decided to creating recipes sized for one was the answer, so I wrote two cookbooks. Whilst my books are popular, I realised that everyone is unique.

We are all unique

Be it their diet (think keto, vegan, low carbs etc.), the ingredients they need to avoid (think sugar, dairy, gluten etc.), or the cooking methods they prefer to use.

To care for myself, I needed to do things differently by understanding my relationship with food and cooking.

Lots of reflection, observation and research have led me to connect with my Inner Cook, who I named Winsome, and together, we developed a new way of working my kitchen that truly suits me.

A new perspective on cooking and food preparation

The results have been transformative. I’m cooking for myself more often. I’m less stressed, waste less food, and save money on my food bills! Win, win, win!

Over the last two years, I’ve been sharing my approach with friends, family and other just4Me cooks. They have found the process liberating and transformative and wanted more.

I'm excited to share this practical, innovative approach with a broader audience.

Please take a look below for details of this breakthrough course.

The Power Of Connecting to Your Inner Cook self-paces online course

The Power of Connecting with Your Inner Cook is my new online self-paced course in which I share my approach and methods. Discover how to untangle your relationship with food and cooking to better care for yourself. Join me to save stress, time, and money on your food bills.

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Gain a New Perspective on Cooking just4You!

This innovative course will help you see how much more potential you have as a cook by liberating the Inner Cook you didn't realise you had.

We all have an Inner Cook. We need to find them and give them permission to thrive.

This fun and practical course builds on the skills you have, shows you how to quickly find inspiration on what to cook, develops ways to plan and prep food to suit your unique lifestyle and explores how your moods impact food choices and design ways to manage this simply.

FUn way to gain Inspiration

Need more motivation for cooking?
Stuck in a rut and want to make food more interesting? Like to have the confidence to mix and match different foods and spices to delight your taste buds?

You're not alone!

Many of us struggle with what to cook for ourselves and often don't bother "as it's just me!" There are better solutions for a healthy lifestyle.

In the course, Caroline shares a playful process for creating meals that will delight you. This will provide you with a new perspective on the whole process of shopping, preparing and cooking food.

It's a new way to gain inspiration about foods that suit your taste and lifestyle.

Avoid Planning OVERWHELM

Do you feel overwhelmed by food planning?

Feel you lack the skills to cook food that will delight you?

Would you like to discover your unique cooking style that can easily create meals just4You?

Making food from scratch can be overwhelming, especially during the planning phase. It can be challenging to make time for cooking and collating ingredients in busy lives when it's just you who has to do everything: shop, store, cook, eat and clean up!

This course provides an alternative approach towards food planning, preparation and cooking so you'll feel empowered to cook in ways that suit just you.

Become the HEALTHIEST version of you

Do you find healthy cooking all too hard?

Would you like to take better care of yourself through food choices?

Do you feel trapped by psychological food barriers and diet rules?

Many of us have special requirements about what we can or like to eat, be it the diet we follow, the ingredients we have to avoid or the tastes we crave.

These requirements make preparing good food for ourselves challenging, so we often don't bother.

In this course, you'll discover the latest science about how food can impact your moods. Caroline shares her practical but playful way to take control of your mood-food relationship.

This course is for you if you want to be empowered to cook when you feel like it and understand how mood and food relationships will empower you.

About Caroline Rowe

Caroline Rowe is a champion of helping small householders to take better care of themselves with food. Author of several cookbooks and Founder of Cookingjust4me, she has produced two award-winning TV series for Community TV on baking and Cooking for small households.

The Power of Connecting with Your Inner Cook series pulls together all her research and development on ways to care for yourself with food to save time and money and prevent food waste.

What participants are saying about the course

Frank

Nov 2022

The course was brilliant, unusual, different and helpful.

“I got little satisfaction from the process of cooking. Somehow I do force myself to cook a bit and be careful about eating out, takeaway and prepared meals. Caroline did cause me to realise I had some ideas about myself and some skills. The course was brilliant, unusual, different and helpful.”

Sharee

Nov 2022

The whole workshop was thought-provoking

"My challenge was making “time to cook and collect the ingredients”. What was different about the workshops was “How you broke down our psychological food barriers and pantry staple knowledge.”

“The whole workshop was thought-provoking. Thank You.”

Greg

Nov 2022

The course spoke to me

“I was tired of cooking the same thing. Needed inspiration and couldn’t work out what to buy. I wasted too much food. The course spoke to me, it gave me everything I needed to reorganise my thinking about how I approach food. Thank You.”

Course Modules

A quick peek inside this innovative course

Module 1: Meeting Your Inner Cook

Your Inner Cook is the champion of your well-being. Connecting with your Inner Cook, you begin untangling your relationship with food and cooking.

1.1 A New Perspective on Cooking

With many of us facing challenges to care for our mental and physical well-being to the level we would like, food costs soaring, and global food waste destroying the planet, it's time for a new approach to food and cooking.

1.2 Challenges and Upsides of just4Me Cooking

Why do so many people not bother to cook “cos there’s just me,” and why is this a problem for us all?

1.3 The Four Principles of Cooking just4Me

Why cookingjust4Me is different to traditional food preparation; In this lesson, we explore why the Four principles are essential and discover they are not the complete answer to why I don’t bother ‘cos it's just me and reveal the role of your Inner Cook.

1.4 Cuisines Choices and Flavour Friends

In this lesson, we begin the discovery of the flavours your Inner Cook loves and meet your Flavour Friends, the first element in the equation to creating meal inspiration just4You.

1.5 The 8 Questions to Finding Your Inner Cook

The eight simple questions will change your perspective about food and cooking for your benefit and introduce you to your Inner Cook.

1.6 Finding Your Cooking Styles

Clarity of how you like to cook is the second element of finding inspiration in cooking. This lesson will help you identify what methods your inner cook delights in using. This lesson will guide you in ensuring you have the kitchen kit to match your cooking style and give tips on decluttering responsibly to streamline your kitchen for your Inner Cook.

1.7 Setting Up the Manual for Your Inner Cook

This lesson explores why you need a manual for your Inner Cook and how easy it is to create one.

Module 2: The Four Foundation Elements of a just4Me Meal

On completing this module, you will have scoped the essential ingredient list that your Inner Cook has to work with and understand why knowing this will save you time, money and stress.

This section will explore what foods and ingredients you must have in the pantry to consider "there is food in the house.”

We're looking at foods you would have daily, things you would buy weekly rather than special treats or seasonal delights.

We're looking to create the backbone of the food that is vital for you to have in your household for your well-being.

2.1 Introduction to Module 2

On completing this module, you will have scoped the essential ingredient list that your Inner Cook has to work with and understand why knowing this will save you time, money and stress.

2.2 Pantry Curation: Stocking Your Shelves with Joy

This lesson asks you to identify your essential favourite food and explores why stocking only those foods in your pantry will make cooking just4You so much easier—the idea of only food that delights me in your kitchen.

2.3 My Favourite Foods are…

This lesson explores what your favourite foods are and why knowing them is a powerful aid to your Inner Cook.

2.4 Inviting Your Flavour Friends to the Party

Flavour Friends play a vital role in making food taste good and make it much easier to prepare. In this lesson, you'll identify the Flavour Friends you will invite to your food party and how they can make plain ingredients dazzle delightfully.

2.5 The Formula for Dinner Inspiration

In this lesson, I share my simple formula for meal inspiration and three novel and easy ways to make mealtime choices.

Module 3: Your 12 Rules of Engagement

Rules give structure to our lives. They help achieve things without having to think through every decision. However, not all the rules we impose on ourselves serve us well. In this module, the rules that govern your relationship with food are explored, and exercises are provided to help you to review them to establish the must-have guidelines for your current world.

3.1 Introduction to Module 3

At the completion of this module, you will understand how rules impact your food and cooking choices for better or worse and how to change them to suit your world today.

3.2 The Role of Food Rules

This lesson explores how your food rules impact your eating. Think of untangling the habit rather than breaking it. Give yourself time to unwind and explore how to remove the friction stopping your action.

3.3 Exploring Your Food Rules

In this lesson, we take a deep dive into the five types of food rules with exercises to help you clarify your rules

3.4 Defining Your 12 Rules of Engagement

This lesson will help you determine which of your many rules cannot be broken or even bent a little and how your Inner Cook can use this list to better care for you.

Module 4: How to Create just4Me Recipes

This module will equip you with the skills to easily write recipes just4You, matching your tastes and inspiration for cooking. Using the simple Cookingjust4Me approach to recipe writing, you will be able to easily become the author of your own cookbook.

4.1 Introduction to Module 4

Building on the work in the first three modules, at the completion of this module, you will know how to create a just4Me-sized recipe.

4.2 What is a Serve size?

This lesson details the guidelines for a healthy-sized meal for one and explores practical ways that you can measure your food.

4.3 Writing a Recipe just4You

It's much easier than most think to write recipes to your taste. In this lesson, the simple Cookingjust4me method of recipe development is shared.

4.4 Storing Food to Prevent Food Waste

Overshopping and poor storage are significant contributors to food waste. This lesson shares many practical tips for preventing over-shopping and storing fresh food to prevent waste.

4.5 Creating 7 Ways to Transform Your Favourite Food

In this lesson, you will learn a cooking just4Me approach to using up large ingredients in ways that will delight your Inner Cook. The principle of 7 Ways to Transform is shared. Easy-to-follow exercises are provided to create recipes to match your taste and complete this innovative lesson.

Module 5: Creating Your Mood Food Playlist

In this module, the relationship between food and mood is explored. Based on the latest research in this complex relationship, a practical tool is shared to help just4Me cooks untangle their everyday habits around food and mood.

5.1 Introduction to Module 5

Food is more than sustenance for our bodies. It feeds our souls as well. This module explores the latest research detailing the close relationships between mood and food and guides you to create a practical tool to help you enhance your well-being.

5.2 Finding the Relationship Between Food and Mood

This lesson introduces the latest research leading the way in understanding the relationship between Mood and Food.

5.3 Creating Your Mood Food Playlist

Your Mood Food playlist is a practical tool to help you untangle your relationship with food. This lesson explores the simple steps to create a Mood Food playlist just4You.

5.4 Making a just4Me Sized Mood Food Playlist

In this lesson, you’ll be able to apply your recipe development skills from module 4 to your Mood Food playlist to prevent overeating and food waste.

5.5 Designing a Healthy Mood Food Playlist

With your just4 Me size playlist created, this lesson guides you in developing healthier versions of your favourite foods with the aim of helping you to become an even healthier version of yourself.

Module 6: Exploring Restore Strategies

In this final module, a wide range of everyday activities are explored in terms of how they can help to restore your mood. The contemporary research behind nine mood-restoring strategies is presented with exercises to help you embrace them in your everyday activities.

6.1 Introduction to Module 6

In this final module, the concept of using activities other than food and cooking to restore your mood is explored.

6.2 Beyond Mood and Food

Nine mood-restoring strategies, plus the science behind why they will help, are introduced and explored

6.3 Celebrating the Launch of the Manual for Your Inner Cook

In this final lesson, a range of methods for indexing are explored to help you set up a Manual for Your Inner Cook. Now you’ve got to know your Inner Cook, it's time to plan a celebration together.

Bonus

Create your own cookbook full of recipes that delight you!

During the course, you'll be guided to create your cookbook filled with recipes suited to your tastes and lifestyle.

This book will become your faithful companion to help your Inner Cook always create meals that delight you, quickly and stress-free.

During the course, Caroline will share her formula for creating a perfect recipe to your tastes and show you fun ways to unlock your creativity to build a cookbook that will become a cherished heirloom.

Course Bonuses

The course is designed for a range of learning styles. Video modules you can watch at times that suit you. Downloadable worksheets and fun activities to guide you in using your new knowledge. You can work at your pace and connect with Caroline in live group coaching. Plus, join fellow just4me cooks in a private, in-course, online forum.

Write your own cookbook

Included in course fee is a hard copy workbook and instructions to create you own heirloom cookbook.

Live group coaching calls

Ongoing monthly, live, group coaching calls via zoom. Downloadable worksheets and self-reflection activities that you can do at your own pace.

Join a community

Join the community of Just4Me cooks inside the course and share and learn from the experiences of others.

What makes this course different?

Based on personal experience and much research, this course is designed to empower you to better care for yourself with food.

By connecting to your Inner Cook, you will discover practical and easy ways to shop, store, prepare and cook foods that are suited to your lifestyle and tastes.

No more compromising and doing things to someone else's tastes and cooking skills.

Untangling your relationship with food and cooking will save you money, time and stress.

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Here’s what people are saying about the course instructor, Caroline Rowe

Caroline is a popular presenter and trainer both in her TV series, online classes or in-person.

She has presented aspects of the Power of Connecting to Your Inner Cook over the last few years to critical acclaim.

Engaging Presenter

"Caroline is an engaging presenter, very friendly with a good sense of humour. The demonstration was interesting and easy to follow and the samples of the cakes I tried were delicious. The class has inspired me to get into baking which I have thought about for a while but now I know I can do it. Thanks Caroline."

New Way of Thinking

" I found the Inner Cook workshop made me realise things I never thought about. It made me think about what I'd like and how I can achieve it "

Reducing Food Waste

" After the course I will rearrange my pantry and try to save as much food waste as possible, I will also experiment more with my favourite ingredients to create multiple recipes with limited ingredients."

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I look forward to meeting you

I'm so excited to offer this course that I know will help improve how you shop, store, prepare and cook food just4You.

That's what The Power of Connecting to your Inner Cook Course does. The knowledge has transformed my life, and that of the many just4Me cooks working with me on the development.

During the live Q&A drop-in session Thursday evenings via Zoom, I look forward to getting to know you and helping you untangle your relationship with food and improve your skills at working with your Inner Cook.

I promise this course will take you to a fun and practical new dimension of Cookingjust4You!

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