Food takes over your life!

I used to eat the same thing every weekday. Usually something like jacket potato, cheese and salad. It meant I didn't have to think about it. Now I have kids I can't do it anymore as they wouldn't want to eat the same thing daily.

I agree OP it’s all soooo boring. The day constantly has to start with food, have food in the middle and have food at the end. I’d love a pill once a day. Especially at work when I can’t be arsed to pack a lunch or on holiday when you get angry because you’re hot and hungry!

@frozendaisy its a bank holiday weekend. There’s no school and probably no work either. Plenty of meals to prepare.

Menu planning means that I only need to think about this around once a week, then I just look at what's written on the A4 page on my kitchen noticeboard.
This fits in well with my Slimming World eating plan.

"one of the things I hate most being an adult"

About being a mother you mean? Because as a single adult, it's not a big deal for me at all.

I think that's what WLI helps with. food noise.
I have very intense obsessions about what to eat. Like I need to be craving something really intensely. But I am in recovery for ED so always a bit weird about food.
I hated it when I was in hospital as I was never hungry and it made food so boring. Just a task to put weight on.

Depends on what you like eating, do you want something different every breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Do you all work in the house? Are you feeding just adults or are children mixed in as well?

Do you/any of you eat out the house regularly (school/work)?

Is only one adult responsible for food?

Do you have fussy eaters or people who complain if you make something and it wasn't what they wanted even though they never mentioned what they did?

Does the chef like cooking?

So many possible variables.

I can tell you what we do.
H & I don't eat first thing, kids are hit and miss, but when they do they love a couple of boiled eggs (runny yolk) and toast (takes 10 minutes max), or a bowl of home mixed muesli and milk (2 minutes prep) or even quicker a couple of bananas, or just even toast and marmalade. It's all quick in the week basically.

Lunch H has at work, teens have at school (packed lunch but again 10 minutes in the morning whilst boiling some eggs). I will happily have fruit (fruit salad which takes about 30 minutes to prep a large bowl but will keep for lunch and after school snack for 3 days so effectively 10 minutes a day) and a handful of nuts. Easy fine, mix of vitamins and protein, if I want a carb I will have an oatcake with houmous, or cottage cheese.

Dinner is where it takes the time, can be anything from 20 minutes to 2 hours so pointless to type it all out. This really depends on how much time you have, who you are feeding and if you like cooking.

None of this takes over my entire day or thinking time.

YANBU! I love food, I quite like cooking, I quite like food shopping. Just not ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

If I could change one thing about DH it would be that he would do more food planning and cooking. He does some, but not enough for my liking. I would like at least a 50/50 split on this chore. Some of my friends have husbands who are keen cooks and they have no idea how much I envy them.

Yes, I realised too late that parenting is an 18-year catering operation.

Breakfast is porridge every day here, unless someone happens to wake up and decide to make eggs or pancakes etc.

Lunch - they’re all out, I sort myself.

Dinner - the famous MN chicken features heavily.

I can’t write atm but usually do a meals list for the week ahead & it makes a big difference. Obviously we don’t always stick to it but it’s a good framework. I only plan evening meals as the 3 of us sort ourselves out the rest of the day unless a picnic needs making. Takeaways are eyewateringly expensive but I reckon we’ll be ordering more whilst I’m laid up.

No, I don't feel like this at all. You don't have to give it that much thought if you don't want to. If it bores you that much, just have the same menu every week. Minimum thought required, but still less boring than a food pill (ugh!)!

It's definitely one of the things I hate most being an adult. The whole thing, thinking of meals, shopping, cooking, hate it. Always said if I win the lottery I'll be hiring a chef