Neurospicy? Overwhelmed? Meet the recipe app that gets it.

Whether you’re neurodivergent, perimenopausal, overwhelmed, or just tired — Hold My Spoon makes recipes easier to follow, your way.

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how it works

Import Your Recipe

You know that huge list of recipes you’ve got piled up in Pinterest? Or the mountain of cookbooks that are currently being used as coffee table books? Or the recipe handed down by your Nan (if only you could read hear writing). It’s their tie to shine! Take a photo, upload a pdf, enter text or import a recipe via URL.

Let Us Do Our Thing

We’ll turn the recipe into a tried and tested format, that will work for your brain! No more flicking from recipe back to ingredients. No more surprise ingredients at the end (no one said basil before step 10!). No more assumed steps (as if onions come diced from the shops).

Get Cooking

Get your grocery list, then enter cook mode. Your distraction free cooking environment with easy to follow instructions (like, actually.), gentle reminders to come back to your cooking and a celebration when you’re done – because we know a meal on the table is worth celebrating.

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what does a reformatted recipe look like?

FRom overwhelmed to “oh, i’ve got this!”

First up, there’s no endless scroll through someone’s life story just to get to the ingredients. No pop-ups, no autoplay videos, no back-and-forth between steps and the shopping list. Just one calm, focused task at a time — with exactly what you need, when you need it. Ingredients are embedded into each step, audio instructions are ready when your hands are full, and the layout is made for real brains, not food bloggers. It’s everything you wish a recipe looked like on your most overloaded day.

Normal recipe format, not designed for overwhelmed, ADHD or neuro spicy brains.

Who is Hold My Spoon For?

If recipes make you anxious, distracted, or just done before you even start — you’re in the right place.

Hold My Spoon is for the cooks who don’t need more inspiration — they need instructions that don’t overwhelm their brain. Whether you’re neurodivergent, navigating brain fog, juggling a baby on one hip, or simply too overloaded to think straight, this isn’t about doing more. It’s about doing things differently — in a way that actually works for you.

Start Cooking Without The Chaos

ADHD Brains

For the folks who forget what they’re doing mid-recipe, can’t hold all the steps in their head, and get overwhelmed before the oven even preheats. This is structure without pressure — designed for your kind of focus.

Women in Peri/Menopause

For the women who used to cook without thinking, and now find themselves foggy, flustered, or second-guessing every step. This is a calm, clear recipe format for brains in transition.

Mums of New Borns

For the sleep-deprived, one-handed multitaskers who need dinner to happen on autopilot. You don’t have time to think — so we’ve done it for you, one step at a time.

Overwhelmed Humans

For anyone who looks at a regular recipe and thinks, “Nope, not today.” This is your pause button, your easy button, and your you-can-do-this tool — all in one.

And anyone who has ever said:

Cooking just feels like too much. I look in the fridge and only see ingredients, I have no idea what to make, or where to start.

Sorry DoorDash.

These folks stopped spending $30 on dinner they already had the ingredients for — not because they suddenly got motivated, but because the recipe finally made sense. Now they’re cooking again, with less stress, fewer steps, and a lot more follow-through. You can too.

  • “Before Hold My Spoon, I would get overwhelmed halfway through cooking. Now I can see exactly what I need for each step. It’s been a game-changer for my cooking confidence!”
    Jamie T
    ADHD Cook Extraordinaire
  • “I used to avoid recipes with more than 5 steps. The way Hold My Spoon highlights ingredients in each step helps me stay focused and not miss anything important.”
    Alex W
    Killing it in the Kitchen (these days)
  • “The complete shopping list feature is amazing! I no longer get halfway through a recipe only to realize I’m missing an ingredient that wasn’t listed in the original.”
    Morgan L
    Mama of ADHD Babes & Master Chef (now)
Sure, we reformat recipes — but really? We’re giving your brain a break, your confidence a boost, and your kitchen a second chance.

What hold my spoon actually gives you

Feel calm in the kitchen

No more juggling ingredients, guessing steps, or hitting overwhelm halfway through. Just one clear step at a time, so you can actually enjoy cooking.

Save money and sanity

$7.99/month gets you unlimited recipe reformats with cooking mode — and costs less than one takeout slip-up. Cook with what you have. Eat more of what you buy.

Confidence you didn’t know existed

If you’ve never finished a recipe without a meltdown — that changes here. This isn’t about cooking “better.” It’s about cooking your way, for the first time.

Prep without panic

Use this short paragraph to write a supporting description of your list item. Remember to let your readers know why this list item is essential.

Mum & daughter cooking calmly in the kitchen.
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Reduce mistakes, frustration and waste

Stop throwing out food or giving up halfway and ordering Uber Eats. Fewer errors. Less stress. More meals that actually happen.

Reconnect with the people you love

Less stress in the kitchen means more presence at the table. When you’re not maxed out, there’s space for conversation, connection, even joy.

Fall in love with cooking.. maybe for the first time

When the steps make sense to your brain, the whole experience changes. From pressure… to peace.

Know you’re not the only one

This isn’t just your struggle. There’s a whole neurospicy, overwhelmed community here — people just like you, making dinner work on their own terms.

Sure, we reformat recipes — but really? We’re giving your brain a break, your confidence a boost, and your kitchen a second chance.

What hold my spoon actually gives you

Feel calm in the kitchen

No more juggling ingredients, guessing steps, or hitting overwhelm halfway through. Just one clear step at a time, so you can actually enjoy cooking.

Save money and sanity

$7.99/month gets you unlimited recipe reformats with cooking mode — and costs less than one takeout slip-up. Cook with what you have. Eat more of what you buy.

Confidence you didn’t know existed

If you’ve never finished a recipe without a meltdown — that changes here. This isn’t about cooking “better.” It’s about cooking your way, for the first time.

Prep without panic

Use this short paragraph to write a supporting description of your list item. Remember to let your readers know why this list item is essential.

Mum & daughter cooking calmly in the kitchen.
Try It Free Today

Reduce mistakes, frustration and waste

Stop throwing out food or giving up halfway and ordering Uber Eats. Fewer errors. Less stress. More meals that actually happen.

Reconnect with the people you love

Less stress in the kitchen means more presence at the table. When you’re not maxed out, there’s space for conversation, connection, even joy.

Fall in love with cooking.. maybe for the first time

When the steps make sense to your brain, the whole experience changes. From pressure… to peace.

Know you’re not the only one

This isn’t just your struggle. There’s a whole neurospicy, overwhelmed community here — people just like you, making dinner work on their own terms.

Frequently Asked Questions

It costs nothings to sign up and get full access immediately, with our 7 day free trial. After that, it’s just $7.99 per month or $59.99 per annum – that’s a saving of 37% for signing up for the year.

It means we take the recipe you already love — and reshape it to actually work with your brain, not against it. Ingredients are placed inside each step so you’re never jumping back and forth. Instructions are broken down into one task at a time, with built-in pauses and no multitasking chaos. Then, when you’re ready to cook, you can launch Cook Mode — a distraction-free, full-screen flow with gentle audio, easy navigation, and soft chimes to bring you back if your mind wanders. It’s calm, clear, and focused — like a recipe that knows what kind of day you’re having. And you don’t have to scroll through someone’s life story to get to it.

Yes! We have a comprehensive search format, so you can search by name or by ingredients in your fridge that you just need to use. Ease and fast – no mental gymnastics required.

No – we don’t have any… and if we did, you wouldn’t want them – trust us!. You bring your own. Just upload a recipe (screenshot, link, or copy/paste), and we’ll turn it into a neurospicy-friendly format.

You can use Hold My Spoon on desktop or mobile – iOS or android — whatever works best for your brain and your kitchen. You can even move from one to the other. Load up your recipes using your computer and switch over to your phone for cooking, or vice versa.

Yes! Hold My Spoon works as a progressive web app. Here’s how to add it to your home screen:

On iPhone (Safari):
  1. Tap the share icon (box with arrow) at the bottom of the screen
  2. Scroll down and tap “Add to Home Screen”
  3. Tap “Add” in the top right corner
On Android (Chrome):
  1. Tap the three dots menu in the top right
  2. Tap “Add to Home screen”
  3. Tap “Add” when prompted

Cook Mode is a distraction-free, full-screen version of your recipe — with one step at a time, optional audio, and gentle chimes if your mind drifts or you need a break. You can even edit the recipe from this screen, if you like a little extra chili (or a little less), so you don’t have to remember next time.

Does the food shopping part get you down? We’re working on Instacart integration so you can send your shopping list directly from the app — and get what you need to start cooking tonight. Each recipe has your shopping list at the start, so you can get everything you need (including those “optional” items they throw in at the end). Until the integration is ready, you can copy and the paste the list into your shopping app.

Finally — Recipes That Match the Way You Think

No more guessing, backtracking, or brain fog in the kitchen.

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