To be fed up of food?

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Does anyone else get like this? I usually meal plan for the week, rotating meals and cooking from stretch most nights, but I'm just fed up of everything. I can hardly even bear to go to the shops, usually battle my way round Aldi. Dh is the same, we just don't know what to eat.

We're ending up just stocking up in essentials like bread, cheese, eggs and eating day to day, so we might just end up having beans on toast or a fish finger sandwich, basically whatever we can bring ourselves to eat.

Really frustrating we usually love food and I'd say we're fairly decent cooks, but we just don't want anything.

Yeah, I get like that. Usually have a couple of weeks of eating crap/boring food (bolognese out of the freezer, pasta or jacket potato with cheese and beans, that kinda thing) and then I eventually snap out of it. Usually a meal at my parents or a friends that's different is the thing that bounces me out of it. I drive my DH mad during the phase though. Conversations in our house:
DH - what do you want for dinner?
Me - dunno/nothing
DH - what about X?
Me - no
DH - what about Y?
Me - no
DH - what about Z?
Me - no
DH - erm..... if I put X in front of you will you eat it.
Me - yeah ok

I annoy myself...!!

I was exactly the same and as a result we ate a lot of jacket potatoes and take aways.
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I totally get this
My way to survive is the yellow stickers
Reduced counter dictates what we eat!
Tonight was chicken breast with jacket sweet potato - cheese coleslaw and tender stem broccoli and green beans - every ingredient was reduced to clear
Tomorrow we are having my reduced price version of posh shepherds pie
Venison mince, fancy mushrooms, red wine gravy and mash made with butternut squash

It's the reason we have a weekly Gousto box to cover 4 nights each week - I appreciate we are lucky enough to be able to afford that. I have no imagination whatsoever otherwise

Yes! I’ve been feeling like that the last couple of weeks. I just can’t be bothered at the moment. And I normally love food/ cooking!

I stopped eating meat a year ago because I was so bored with food and thought it might make me eat differently. I'm now bored with eating meatless meals. And overweight. (More overweight).

After working coming home to cook is tiring as well as boring BUT I'm always ravenous by tea time so cook something that's balanced and healthy.

Too much junk and I become tired and lethargic. And chocolate always gives me spots.

I’ve limited the problem a bit by always having the same breakfast (porridge and fresh berries), then making a batch of a different soup each weekend to provide lunches all week - last week was beetroot, dill and cucumber, this week is apple, sage and celeriac - I make hummus to go on pitta bread with the soup, or have some cheese on rice cakes with it, or an egg.
That just leaves dinner to try and think of variations. Summer is easy, with hundreds of different salads or stir fries, but in winter I tend to want comfort food, so make batches of casseroles with roots, barley, lentils, herbs and various alternative meats, topped with home made suet dumplings or mash. I do a lot of home made curries, too, and pies such as spanakopita. But there’s always a place for good old chilli con carne or spag bol - they’re not boring if you don’t repeat them too often.
If you’re stuck for variety, why not swap ideas with friends, or type an ingredient into google and see what new recipes come up for it. The internet is awash with cookery blogs - you just have to scroll through all the pretentious crap to get to the actual recipe! And don’t forget the takeaway option, those of you lucky enough to live within ten miles of one, unlike me...

I’m also dieting which makes it harder
I try and do fruit and or porridge for breakfast
Soup, salad or leftovers for lunch
Healthy evening meal

I'm really feeling like this at the moment. I think it's a combination of so much over indulgence over December that I'm just sick of food and also I'm low carbing at the mo so just dont really feel hungry at all. It's a real effort to bother making dinner at all and I usually really enjoy it.

We seem to live on omelettes for the evening very easy and simple, with some veggies or salad, or one of the fresh fish packs with pesto or a sauce. then I get the packs of veggies and grains to go with it, getting a bit bored with this also but it is quick and simple. The soups / porridge also.

This is me during the week. It's just an organisational act too far for me. I'm better at the weekend and nobody seems malnourished so far.

We had scrambled eggs on toast one evening last week. Jacket potato, beans and cheese tonight.
Pesto pasta is also a lifesaver. Might do that tomorrow.

I'm so bored with food I just live on Huel which is a food replacement. Just cannot be bothered. My mother would be horrified.
Lots of people are doing it now. There is a big market in good quality food replacements.

I think the problem here OP is that you rely on planning, which, useful as it is, can get a bit boring. Don’t plan anything for a couple of weeks and go with the flow. Then go back to planning.

Get inspiration from YouTube, cookery books or pintrest. Sometimes it’s quite creative trying to make up a meal with what you can already find in your house. Or remove one main component short term ( for ex. Carbohydrates or sugar). You will be forced to look for ingredients (for ex. Discover the world of pulses or rely on honey as any ingredients so as not to touch anything with sugar in it).

Play around a bit and see where it goes.