To ask if anyone else finds food mostly uninteresting?

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I have a few friends and family who think and talk about food a lot. They watch cookery programs, read restaurant reviews, just generally talk about food with great enthusiasm.

I only think about food when I'm hungry. I often find myself very hungry at awkward times because I forgot to eat when it would have been convenient. When I am hungry, I definitely like my food to be tasty. It's not like I dislike food, I just don't care about it when it's not filling an immediate need.

Once I am full, I will stop eating. I leave most restaurant meals unfinished. But not always - depends on my hunger and the portion size.

One friend of mine talks about what she is planning to eat all the time. We text throughout the day and she always says things like "I need to pick up my dry cleaning on the way home and then I'm going to make a fish pie! :)" Literally every day she tells me what she's thinking of making for dinner. When we eat out together she literally scrapes her plate and then finishes my food. I don't really care because I don't want it, but it just looks odd, somehow. I can tell she's compelled to do it - she said that she simply cannot abide letting food go to waste.

My husband loves cookery programs, especially ones about American diners that specialise in something huge and ridiculous. He reads reviews of top restaurants and fantasizes about winning the lottery and where he'd eat. He talks about food in general and can become emotionally distressed if he doesn't enjoy his food.

On the subject of restaurant critics and cookery books - I'm glad there are people in the world who are passionate about food, because that means there are tasty things to eat when I'm hungry. But it does seem weird to me that there are people so into food and dining that they can make a living from it. Some cookbooks rhapsodise to the point of making my eyes roll. I just want to know how to make the roast - a paragraph about the author's visit to Tuscany and the meal they had at their friend's villa is annoying.

Am I the only person who feels this way?

This is just like my DH. Food is purely fuel to him, nothing else. I used to drag him out to eat at nice restaurants cos I like food, cooking, trying new things etc etc but he just finds it tedious and unnecessary. And he hates sitting at a table for any longer than it takes him to wolf his fuel down. I don't get it, but we all have different interests don't we? I don't want to watch programmes on war planes, he doesn't want to waste money on eating out - so we do the things we like alone or with other friends, and do other things we both like together. Meh 🤷‍♀️

Yeah, I’m a bit like this. I used to love thinking about food and planning meals. Then I had kids and now have to cook boring stuff day in day out, serve the damn stuff and clean up. Nothing about food is interesting anymore. Apart from maybe a good falafel.

A friend of mine who talks about food all the time just texted me to tell me that she's enjoying the thread about fridges.

£0 years ago I was a professional cook and used to enjoy putting on huge dinner parties but now I am so bored of cooking and have very little interest in food at all.
It's a real shame to lose what was a really substantial pleasure and now I really struggle to keep weight on. I've discovered Ensure Plus weight gain drinks and top up calories with these and even slug olive oil, butter and cream all over everything. I still don't get enough calories in to maintain a healthy weight tho.

I eat almost exactly the same thing every day becasue I literally don’t give a single fuck about food. I would never own cookbooks or watch cooking shows because food just doesn’t interest me. I hate meal planning. I don’t want variation, I just want nutrition and energy. I don’t even really like eating out because it’s not really much of a fun group activity IMO. I would rather do something a little more lively for catch ups with friends or a date with my husband. I just eat my same regular meal and then the whole thing is easy and requires no more thought.