To be fed up with food?

[Beatrixpotterspencil]

I'm one of those irritatingly healthy eaters, love good food and never had to diet. But the past year or two I seem to have just gone off everything. I have a normal appetite, but just so so sick of everything I cook.

We (just myself and DP) cut out most processed food long ago, so tend to make everything, plus sauces, any baking, etc from scratch. We like doing it so that's ok. But 80% of my plate is basically vegetables, the rest protein. Sounds good, but I am just sick to death of it.
I have tried all manner or recipes, from all cultures, and am still fed up.

I gave up bread many years ago and I can't recall why. Pasta and noodles also. Possibly due to hearing they were empty calories so didn't need them.

So there was this revelation when a friend made me a toasted slice of sourdough with a healthy topping of asparagus, mozzarella, mushroom, pepper, garlic, spinach - and it blew my mind with the taste! I can't recreate this without bread - i tried and tried and it isn't happening. It was the last thing I truly loved to eat and it made the veggies so delicious.
A week later, inspired by my reaction she made me another sourdough slice with a poached egg, avocado, cress, asparagus and mushrooms. Again I was in utter heaven, my head blown off with the taste.

When I roast vegetables with chicken breast, or make a soup, or various other healthy veg recipes I am so bored, uninspired and unsatisfied. And I am a good, adventurous cook! It's puzzling me.

Since we don't eat processed (hydrogenated oils) much I have shied away from sourdough and pitta. But it's like life is too bloody short to be this repressed. I suppose somewhere along the line I have been swept up in the 'good food bad food' evangelicalism and I just want to eat healthy but with more joy and variety than this!

So you google sourdough and it's all about glycemic index and baaaaaad calories. I am slim, otherwise healthy, I am sure eating some fucking grains a few times a week won't hurry me off to the undertakers.

Sorry, needed to get that out

I’m not saying there aren’t people who get obsessed with healthy eating. But why do we have to everything a name?

In that case, why give anorexia a name? Or bulimia? Or binge-eating disorder? Or any other illness?

Besides, orthorexia is much more than an obsession with healthy eating. It's an obsession that borders on dangerous and is basically a kind of anorexia.

You said yourself OP your diet was 80% veg and the rest protein. You don't eat any processed food and you said you'd been bored with your cooking for 1-2 years. Your wrote about being puzzled why chicken and veg didn't excite you, and being sick to death of it.

Now suddenly your diets full of fats, potato and sausages?

It's completely normal for tastes to change. But it shouldn't cause this much angst to just buy some bread. People aren't saying you have orthorexia because you like healthy food, it's because you've started an entire thread just to pluck up the courage to eat a slice of toast.