Are there people who aren't fussed by food?

[Martacus]

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?

So glad I came across this, I thought I was the only one! I have no interest in food. I hate cooking it, shopping for it and thinking about it. I have a main dinner at work so I don't have to think about food for them rest of the day, if I am really hungry I will have a banana or toast just so I can sleep without the hunger pains. I too wish there was a pill I could take.The whole " what am I going to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner" everyday is so draining!!

My DD is like this. She is veggie and seems very meh about a lot of food. Sometimes I'll do something different and ask if she liked it. Mostly just get ' its fine'.

I feel hungry and snack, I just can't be bothered with thinking about, prepping or cooking actual meals. I just find it annoying and energy zapping, I do have CFS tho and just would rather spend my energy elsewhere. Am totally happy with a bowl of cereal, beans on toast, some salad with fish, fruit and yogurt and probably will just eat that on rotation with maybe a pizza now and again now I'm single again after a very long time..

I’m fully aware I have an eating disorder. I have ARFID

I cant be arsed with food. Have always hated cooking, but now the DCs have left the nest and its just me, i only eat to stop feeling wobbly.

Basically i'll cook something quick, like scrambled egg on toast, job done and can then get on with other things.

I take supplements in an effort to not become deficient in vitamins etc.. and yes, i did have an eating disorder when younger.

If I'm on a diet I'm obsessed, but at the moment I'm a bit meh about it (other than unhealthy snacks, which I could eat all day).

I’m fully aware I have an eating disorder. I have ARFID

I remember you from other food threads. I apologise if my post offended you, and I realise that you find it difficult. I don't think many of the posters on here have been diagnosed with ARFID though.

Years back I read a book that posited that if we treated our bodies like cars, or something we would pop in the optimal type and amount of fuel. Something akin to eating what our body needs efficiently. But there was lots of pseudo science in it, like lots of dietary guides, books, fads. The idea of optimising for the machine stuck. And advice such as drinking booze after eating just ruins digestion of your dinner. So it's wasteful.

Anyway I had a very sensitive palette, was really into food and cooking, and optimising food for my body. Towards the obsessive twenty odd years back.

A decade back I lost my sense of taste. And now food and drink has little appeal at all for me. To the point I hate even having food in my mouth.

I still cook for my partner. But if it was just me, wouldn't much care. I'd just make sure I was getting a good healthy varied diet.

Yes, it's called ARFID.

What I find weird is how invested people get about what other people eat.
I will do the socialising with food because I enjoy spending time with friends but I HATE it when people feel the need to comment on what I'm eating or not eating. That's what makes it challenging and stressful.... I'm quite happy with my safe foods.

lol these are the people who "forget" to eat - something I would simply never ever do anymore than I would forget to breathe.

There are lots of different individual genes that are responsible for appetite and also satiety that vary over the population. These are responsible for a lot of our behaviours around food.

I definitely know people who eat to refuel.

Since having a bad gallbladder I just eat to live. Everything has to be below 3% fat per 100g. That’s basically lean meat veg and fruit. My food is boring. But has taught me how bad the processed food made me feel.

I used to love food. But even now if my gallbladder sorts itself out I wouldn’t go back to how I ate before considering how bad it made me feel.

I don’t know whether I feel sad for people like this, or envious. I think sad, because food is one of life’s greatest pleasures, imo. I quite often go to bed looking forward to breakfast, and nothing annoys me more than people trying to impose plans on me that get in the way of mealtimes. On the other hand I do have to expend quite a lot of mental energy on not just eating whatever I want, because clearly inside me there’s a very fat lady just desperate to burst out. It would be nice not to have to fight her.

My partner is like this. Food is fuel basically. I love food and am always thinking about it. He doesn't get me at all 😂

@LoobyDop
I quite often go to bed looking forward to breakfast
me too!

As far as I'm concerned food is just fuel, I'm not overly fussed about it.

I'm not obsessed with food, nor do I think about it all the time, but I enjoy good food. I made an apple cake today, and it is a pleasure to eat.

I think sad, because food is one of life’s greatest pleasures

But that's because you like food.
Food is stressful for me.

I get my pleasure from other things so there's no need to feel sad for me.

DH is a bit like this. He does enjoy food, and can appreciate a nice meal, but he just isn't that bothered by it. He won't eat if he isn't hungry and he can easily forget to eat a meal. He won't eat much if he's feeling under the weather or upset about something or just a bit tired. He's very slim (a healthy BMI but only just). I wish I was more like him!

I once heard Kiefer Sutherland say in an interview that he hated food, and only ate because he had to. He only ate pizza and burgers. I was shocked because I never realized a person could hate food! I do have days where I just don't feel like preparing or cleaning up or taking the time, and eating just feels like a chore. I do wish it was just an optional thing sometimes. I just can't imagine not enjoying it entirely though.

I like food and cook every day as I'm a lone parent. I cook basic dishes well, pork chops, mash & a couple of veg or a home made risotto. I like food to taste fresh and flavoursome. Ds is perfectly happy with my food.

I have an ex who was never happy with that. A meal was a work of art, had to be the best salmon or a leg of lamb at the very least and take up the whole evening. If I made seafood risotto, he'd turn his nose up if it didn't have monkfish and king prawns in. The whole drama of it put me off cooking completely. It is a relief not to have that any more. There has to be a balance, decent food, yes, but not all that fuss.