To hate cooking and the relentlessness of it all

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Bloody cooking meals. thinking of new meal ideas. Meal plans, fucking meal plans. The mess. DC not liking what's on offer and then not eating it. The mess. The clean up. EVERY SINGLE DAY

Pre kids I used to browse recipe websites in my lunch hour at work. DH will eat pretty much anything and I enjoyed making new meals for us. And I had the time and energy for the shopping and the cleaning up.

Nowadays we basically eat the same 7ish boring family meals on rotation. Anything new is met with great suspicion and I just don’t have the mental energy to fight over it when I know spaghetti bolognaise or plain chicken with plain veg etc will just be eaten without complaint. I have gradually managed to get a few different meals in, but I kind of feel that with primary age kids this is us for a while and I’m grateful they eat what they do in terms of fussiness.

Maybe once they’re older I’ll go back to enjoying it again!

Me too. Hate it. Picky eaters. Monotonous. Different meals. DS with SN will only eat about four things. Tried Hello Fresh but DH not keen as there was took much waste.

If I win the lottery I'm hiring a chef.

I loathe it. Always have and always will. Wish I could be one of those people who does it for fun.

And also have a neurodiverse son who lives mostly at his dad's and wouldn't eat anything I cooked anyway as it doesn't taste like dad makes it. So I don't bother. I did bake a potato though but couldn't be arsed steaming the veg to go with it. No wonder I am overweight and unwell. Heheh

I dont mind the cooking as such. Its the thinking what to cook that bothers me. DH in particular expects proper massive dinners with great variety. , The rest of us would probably eat pasta every night with the odd pizza. But i cant delegate as he has had a breakdown and cant think at all.

Its' bad that H has had a breakdown AntlerRose but does it really mean that you have to put up with cooking him a gourmet dinner every night that no one else really wants?
I ask as someone who has had an awful lot of breakdowns in her life and I don't recall expecting a particular level of cuisine as a result (I live on my own, so even less likely to happen hehe)

God yes. The endless preparation of food and cleaning up after it. The best thing about going on holiday for me this year was doing none of that shit.