To be fed up of being fed up of food?

[Squidgee]

Do you ever get to that point? You know, where you are just so... uninspired by food?

I dont know what I want to eat, and I've been like it a while... every damn meal is turning into eating because I know I should, not because I actually want to eat it.

I've a house full of food.. and I dont really want any of it.

Can you go swimming? I can't imagine my life without regular aerobic exercise. Some of the most crippled people I know are pretty good swimmers.

I wouldn't cook more than one meal per night

... but if I did stop exercising, I'd just stop eating, pretty much. That's what middle age means. Have to work to get any appetite.

If you only want cake/sweets then you could at least have fruit & seeds instead. Would be healthier for you.

I can understand the frustration. If you're always cooking for others and it's never what you want to eat it'll soon make things boring. I guess you don't have much motivation left for your own meal. Recipe apps are helpful for me, regularly updated, lots more than a recipe book.

llykk I do swim when I can, I used to go regularly but its dropped off a bit at the moment i'm struggling with the dark/wet mornings as I have to go while the DC's are at school, which with our pool only leaves me with 9-10 in the morning.
I do try and avoid the sweets, I have yogurts and cereals and grapes and bananas that I will pick up, I do also eat salads a fair bit, just gone off those recently too which sucks.

master, I would LOVE to only cook one meal, but because of my childrens disabilities its not an option. I can't live on the severely restrictive diet they subsist on, and they would starve rather than eat what I do.

I totally get this too. I end up wandering round the supermarket in a daze not knowing what the hell to buy. We're always running out of food and it's purely due to my total lack of inspiration (and organisation)

I often end up with soup for dinner with bread and cheese. The kids get pasta and pesto with green veg. Dullsville.

Im lucky my kids eat most things,so its not that.I think its the boredom of having to think of what to cook.

So what i have been doing the last few weeks is writing my dinners down for the week.Takes the thinking out of what to be having.So it s Monday i know its sheperds pie.So that makes it easier.

Or i cook and enjoy my dinner first while the kids are in school.It means im not interupted with kids annoying me..So i do enjoy it more.

I totally get where you’re coming from OP. I was on a very strict exercise & nutrition programme with a PT last year and while I lost 2 1/2 stone, I now can’t bear any of those meals. I’m sick to death of everything turkey or chicken and find myself craving everything I was denied...and put some of the weight back on as a result! I can very rarely be arsed cooking properly even on my days off and the thought of leftovers for the next days lunch just makes me 🤢. A quick, easy meal I love is steak with Caesar salad, takes about 5 minutes (depending on how you like your steak) or chicken breasts stuffed with quark and wrapped in bacon with veg.

Do you feel refluxy at all? Just wondered. I normally love food but went off it for a few months a while back and after seeing the GP it turned out my stomach acidity had changed, hence I went completely off the food I normally eat (all I wanted to eat was very green apples and tomato soup). In my case it was a complication of endometriosis, but a lot of conditions can give you reflux and it makes everything taste odd.

I agree, having to sort dinner every night is my least favourite part of a day. It's so boring and food doesn't excite me at all. I do it to function not to enjoy.

I do appreciate that I can cook dinner of course, I don't think OP needs a roasting (pardon the pun) there.

Would your children eat meatballs in a tasty gravy? The Hairy Bikers recipe is delicious (it uses a little wine/port/sherry but alcohol gets burnt off and just adds to flavour) - I made it the other night with mash .. my 15 year old is super fussy and his meals are so boring - my DH hates pasta/rice and would eat pie and chips every day so I get bored with cooking ... had an Indian last night for the first time in years and it was so tasty. It gets to be a chore and you have lots going on to deal with which is probably why .. this is the recipe - I used bought raw meatballs this time because I couldn't be bothered

beebrecipes.co.uk/recipe/meatballs_in_gravy_04987