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Are there people who aren't fussed by food?

146 replies

Martacus · 18/09/2023 22:56

I'm someone who loves food. I'm often thinking about my next meal and I get excited when my local deli does a new sandwich filling.

I wondered if there are many people who are not like me, and don't get that much pleasure out of food? (Just like I don't get pleasure out of e.g. watching sport, which loads of people love).

Are there people who eat mainly to not be hungry anymore and don't think food is very exciting? Or does everyone love food?

OP posts:
ferrousfumarate · 19/09/2023 13:02

Most of the time I just eat because I have to. Having to decide what to eat every single day is a chore and I hate making food. I can never do it properly, it tastes either just ok or crap, and then I have to clean it all up. It's the one thing in life I just cba with!

RampantIvy · 19/09/2023 15:05

I hate feeling hungry. I only had soup for lunch, no bread or anything else, so I have just eaten a biscuit.

DappledThings · 19/09/2023 15:10

I'm like this. I could happily eat the same thing every day although I do like a big range of stuff so I'd also be happy being served something different every day.

I would never chose to spend any significant amount of money on a restaurant. No matter how much I enjoyed it I'd still feel like it was a waste of money.

I take no pleasure in cooking or planning food. It is my most hated chore. I happily take on 90% of cleaning and laundry for the 90% of food stuff DH does

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stayathomer · 19/09/2023 16:01

I'm laughing that accompanying this post for me there's an ad for Dairygold with this lady absolutely thrilled to be eating bread with golden butter on it😅

BCBird · 19/09/2023 16:03

I have a friend who once said to me that food is fuel. What? I.looked at her in disbelief.

stayathomer · 19/09/2023 16:04

I would never chose to spend any significant amount of money on a restaurant. No matter how much I enjoyed it I'd still feel like it was a waste of money.
Oh my god yes to this, any money spent on eating out I'm thinking of all the worthwhile things it could have been spent on such as clothes, days out, books etc!! I hate that the first plans made with friends for christmas are what restaurant we'll go to

LolaSmiles · 19/09/2023 16:08

I like my food but wouldn't say I find a lot of pleasure in it in the way some people do who really enjoy going out for meals and look forward to a certain dish.

I'm not going to be miserable, eat gruel and dull, bland food, and I like to cook tasty, well-balanced meals, but I wouldn't say I get excited if there's a new dish on the menu of the local cafe, or I love an excuse to spend a small fortune on a fancy meal.

My feelings about food are neutral. We have to eat to live so might as well eat nice things.

BarrelOfOtters · 19/09/2023 17:45

I think about food too much, what to eat, holidays, shopping for food….

dh does too but not to same extent. I would find it difficult to be with someone who wasn’t interested in food.

guy at work has a brown bread cheese sandwich for lunch every day and has for years apparently….it’s easy and he knows he likes it. He’s not interested in food at all.

Zebedee55 · 19/09/2023 17:51

No, I used to have a good appetite, haven't now, and I'm just eating what I need to keep my system working. Don't care what it is. 🙂

Q2C4 · 19/09/2023 17:52

I'm like this - meal times annoy me as they get in the way of other stuff and create chores (ie washing up!). I like eating out but that is for the social side not the food per se. Occasionally I've had a dish that has been really delicious & I've definitely enjoyed food, but it doesn't motivate me day to day.

Teddleshon · 19/09/2023 17:55

God how I would love not to be bothered about food! I love to cook, absolutely love eating and have never missed a meal in my entire life without climbing the walls with starvation.

I’m not overweight but if I ate what I wanted to I would be the size of a house.

Lizardonachair · 19/09/2023 18:06

Yes I can be a bit like this I find eating to be a bit of a chore (although I do love chocolate). I was much worse when I was a smoker though as it suppressed my appetite, I used to live on cereal!

Yorkshiredolls · 19/09/2023 18:08

I simply cannot imagine being ambivalent about food. I adore food and could not be with someone who felt differently or was unadventurous with food. I would be very sad and depressed if I lost my sense of taste and appetite.

For those who couldn’t care less and just see it as fuel and the preparing, cooking and cleaning up as a chore, have you looked into Huel? Might suit some on here.

stillthinking22 · 19/09/2023 18:19

Haggisfish3 · 18/09/2023 23:09

I’m a bit like this. I like food but the thought of eating three times a day, every day, until I die, makes me feel very very uncomfortable and harassed!! My ideal would be a personal chef to make me delicious food. Ironically I’m good at cooking. Just cba.

I really relate to this! I definitely get bored of food easily and also having to cater for small children really takes the joy out of food

Clarabe1 · 19/09/2023 18:24

I have got an ongoing gastro issue that makes eating some foods a nightmare, terrible heartburn and pain. Therefore I think very carefully if the ‘treat’’ is worth it. I tend to stick to natural unprocessed foods. Otherwise I would probably stuff my face like a pig. I love everything that is bad for you.

AvengedQuince · 19/09/2023 18:44

Yorkshiredolls · 19/09/2023 18:08

I simply cannot imagine being ambivalent about food. I adore food and could not be with someone who felt differently or was unadventurous with food. I would be very sad and depressed if I lost my sense of taste and appetite.

For those who couldn’t care less and just see it as fuel and the preparing, cooking and cleaning up as a chore, have you looked into Huel? Might suit some on here.

Isn't Huel UPF, so not a good fuel for ongoing use?

DappledThings · 19/09/2023 18:49

I adore food and could not be with someone who felt differently or was unadventurous with food.

I feel this both me and not me. I'm very adventurous with food, will try anything, have a tiny range of things I don't like. But I have hardly any impetus to do anything about that. I love that DH likes to try cooking new things and enjoy all the varied stuff he makes. But if he suddenly decided he couldn't be arsed anymore and we were just living off pasta and pesto I wouldn't mind either.

Yorkshiredolls · 19/09/2023 20:36

I don’t know if huel is heavily processed, perhaps so, but its hardly in chicken nuggets league. its not advised for every meal, but for those that feel ambivalent it could be a good substitute several times a week. Just trying to be helpful to those who have said if there was a pill they could take that replaced food, they’d take it (that would be upf too)

BertieBotts · 19/09/2023 20:43

I really like eating in restaurants, but I am not a fan of the really fancy stuff that you get, like when you get weird combinations of food and it's really expensive. That I always feel disappointed in because it feels like a waste of money to me.

I have tried the shake things but you have to drink such a large amount that I struggle with it. Plus it works out quite expensive compared to just normal food. I decided to just get some basic ready meals to fill that "I know I'm supposed to have a meal not but I just cannot" hole. I am not really bothered about UPFs, but that kind of thing (Huel etc) certainly is.

Heatherbell1978 · 19/09/2023 20:57

Yep. I appreciate going out for a nice meal but can't be arsed with the faff of cooking and thinking about food. If I lived alone I'd just eat pasta and pesto every night! It might stem from an eating disorder in my late teens/early twenties. I hugely regret the time I spent obsessing about food and calories and now hate thinking about food.

RampantIvy · 19/09/2023 21:23

This is such a depressing thread. I can't help but feel that there are a number of posters with eating disorders on here as there are too many with an unhealthy attitude towards food.

I would also love to know what worthy past-times people have that is more important than eating.

If I am eating something boring and tasteless of course I won't eat very much of it, and I think that is what the issue is with some of the posters on this thread. Perhaps if they ate something they really liked it wouldn't seem such a chore.

MonikerBing · 19/09/2023 21:26

RampantIvy · 19/09/2023 21:23

This is such a depressing thread. I can't help but feel that there are a number of posters with eating disorders on here as there are too many with an unhealthy attitude towards food.

I would also love to know what worthy past-times people have that is more important than eating.

If I am eating something boring and tasteless of course I won't eat very much of it, and I think that is what the issue is with some of the posters on this thread. Perhaps if they ate something they really liked it wouldn't seem such a chore.

There are lots of worthy past- times that are more important than eating! That's a ridiculous thing to say. Nothing is more important to me than connecting with my family, my children or my friends for example. I would throw that back at you and suggest you have an issue if eating is the most important past time to you.

RampantIvy · 19/09/2023 21:33

I would throw that back at you and suggest you have an issue if eating is the most important past time to you.

You misunderstand me @MonikerBing . I love to connect with friends and family, but I wouldn't go without eating all day in oder to see them, and neither would they. If we met over a mealtime then a meal would be eaten. In fact most meet ups with friends and family usually involve a meal because that is hoe we usually socialise.

It was the post that said this meal times annoy me as they get in the way of other stuff that I was responding to.

MonikerBing · 19/09/2023 21:39

oh ok. Being indifferent to food is different to never eating though. Left to my own devices, I'd just eat when I get hungry and not at set mealtimes - some people are very rigid in my view about meal times and I find that annoying!

RampantIvy · 19/09/2023 21:40

I eat when I am hungry and am not rigid about meal times.