How to Make Dinner While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Feeding Yourself and Others (A Cookbook)

The bestselling author of How to Keep House While Drowning returns to the household, now to help make dinner when you’re under water. Whether neurodivergent, struggling with executive function, or simply overwhelmed by the task of cooking, readers will find 85 simple recipes and helpful photographs.

KC Davis knows that feeding yourself can feel impossible some days. Traditional cookbooks often assume that a reader has time and energy for cooking and strong executive functioning. How to Make Dinner While Drowning assumes the opposite, which is the more common reality: We all want to eat and many people lack the energy and skills to cook anything at all.

How to Make Dinner While Drowning is filled with 85 easy and flexible recipes. They prioritize simple meals with smart shortcuts: pre-cut vegetables and frozen or shelf-stable ingredients like jarred garlic, frozen fruit, or store-bought rotisserie chicken. Here too, are mix and match proteins and sauces, dishes that reheat well, and tips for meal prep that don’t ask a lot of you. Unlike any other book on the market, How to Make Dinner While Drowning has a book design meant to reduce eye fatigue and the jump from one part of the page to another. KC developed the design and content to break down every barrier to home cooking.

And because cooking is also about eating, around which there is judgment, KC applies the shame-free framework from her previous books to cooking. This cookbook rejects perfectionism and diet culture in favor of realistic, accessible meals that prioritize nourishment over guilt. Her mantra: food is morally neutral, and good enough is truly good enough.

Recipes include:

Breakfast: Egg Bites, Chocolate Cold Brew Protein Shake, and Protein-Packed Overnight Oats

One-Pot & One-Pan Meals: Lasagna with Blended Vegetable Sauce, Easy Enchiladas, and Chicken Pot Pie

Mix & Match Meals: Super Simple Chicken Cutlets, Super Simple Shrimp, and Tofu Puffs mix & matched with Cilantro-Lime Sauce, Peanut Sauce, and Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce

Soups & Salads: Silky Black Bean Soup, Tortellini Salad, and Quinoa Salad

Dessert: Chocolate Bread Pudding, Easy Roll-Out Cookies for Decorating, and KC’s Chocolate Mug Cake

Whether you’re navigating ADHD or simply the demands of everyday life, How to Make Dinner While Drowning exists to make food less stressful and life more manageable.