What’s with the obsession with food?

[runoutofgoodusernames]

So many threads about:
What shall I have for dinner?
Any ideas for some healthy dinners?
Blah blah blah food!

Am I the only person alive that really doesn’t care about food? I eat some kind of cereal/ yogurt combo for breakfast, sometimes forget lunch, whoops, and don’t even think about dinner other than ‘mmm bit peckish, what’s in the freezer?!’

Is this a ‘thing’ or am I abnormal? The world seems obsessed with food doesn’t it? I just eat to not die basically, what am I missing?

I get what you mean OP. The kids I care what they eat, and I’ll plan that, make sure they have plenty of veg etc etc. Me? I’d happily eat the same thing every night, as long as it’s reasonably healthy, and do exactly that when DH is away (dream..!). Unfortunately he is a massive foodie and insists on endless utterly unbearable conversations about the ‘meal plan’ for the week. Kill me.

Well done for being a superior human being unlike us fat greedy cows.

happy now?

Nothing wrong with liking food. I like food and I like to cook food for my friends and family. I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed but food is something everyone needs to live so people do bond over food and enjoy trying food together.

I don't understand why people have to put "home made" whatever on the what's for lunch/dinner threads. Virtue signalling?

The fact that you don’t cook for your kids makes a huge difference.

Most of the threads talking about foods aren’t single people, they’re trying to come up with ideas to feed to their kids.

Most people who were single and only cooked for themselves wouldn’t give food as much headspace, as they’d just eat what they want, when they want.

For some people like myself, meal planning is a real effort and not something that comes naturally.
We were not raised on normal meals and so it’s a conscious effort to think about what a normal meal is and plan ahead.

No interest in food OP?

Sorry, I don't normally search usernames but I found the tone of your OP goady and just a little judgemental. Maybe you didn't mean it to come across that way, but here we are.

My life revolves round food (am not overweight, like to be hungry before I eat) and I could never be friends or married to someone with no interest in food.

I think there are food for fuel people out there though.

@Scalottia

The OP said she doesn't think about food all day like some people do (ie me), not that she doesn't have any preference for any food / snacks or flavours.

OP I wonder if people on Mumsnet are this boring in real life, or if they just reserve it for the internet

And in response to your original post OP, I love food and I spend all day thinking about what to have for dinner. Cooking is a relaxing part of my day where I get a break from the mayhem and children and put a podcast on, so that's another reason I think about it a lot. I also love trying new foods and eating out.

My mum is wired the exact opposite, though, she'd have something easy like an omelette or something on toast every night if it was upto her. It must make the food shop a lot cheaper but I enjoy food too much!

I always feel a bit jealous of foodies and the lovely food they make. I was never that interested in food and only really think about dinner lunch in terms of what do I make the kids. And I'm a pretty boring cook.

No it doesn't.

OP didn't post saying "anyone else not care about food much?"

She posted saying she couldn't possibly understand why people are so "OBSESSED with blah blah blah food" and how she literally couldn't understand how others gave it headspace.

While giving examples of just how different she is to literally everyone else since she seemed to think she was the 'only person in the world' who just doesn't care.

She's the epitome of a 'I'm not like other girls' trope.

"I literally just don't care about something that I would DIE without, it's just not important to me, i have more important things to think about like my writing"

She was saying she was superior to other lesser beings who get hungry, enjoy food and yes, she automatically was being shitty about overweight people

Which happens A LOT particularly in relation to food on this site and many people fall for it and many people see it for what it is.

OP was the one saying "I just don't understand anyone that thinks differently to me". She wasn't being curious or chatty, she was pretending that as an adult woman she just doesn't get how people aren't like her about something that literally sustains life.

It was fake and some of us see through it.

I find food shopping and meal planning really tedious!
I have a life of two halves as a single person, whose kids live with their dad a couple of days a week. On those days I'll just eat egg on toast, yoghurt and fruit, etc.

I can eat the same meals every day, I really don't care.

For the kids I meal plan properly, try to vary it. But I'm still doing the same 10 to 12 meals on rotation.

I'm not skinny though, I snack too much.

She's the epitome of a 'I'm not like other girls' trope.

But why is this even a trope? Why does it make her deserving of being sneered at? I mean, good for her!

@HettyWainty

but some people don’t think about food 24/7 though! That’s all op is saying!

Yes you are the only person!
I have a relative who will spend a whole day sourcing just the right meat, the right wine, grows his own veg.... he's a fantastic cook but will drive miles and spend hours searching for ingredients!
I just like the eating!

But I'm not that interested in what anyone else is eating...

How did you extrapolate that from the op😂

I would have thought that planning and preparing a meal is the opposite of being a greedy cow

For me food is one if life's great pleasures. My partner is like OP though and I find it extremely frustrating

OP wrote that they don't care about food. So why comment on someone else's post on a thread that was specifically about food. It's contradictory.

We are all entitled to our views on food, but I still think the way OP has put their opinion across is goady (maybe not intended to be).

I mean, I don't find posts about dogs interesting but I don't feel the need to come on here to start a thread asking why so many people post about dogs and to infer that they are boring because they post about something they enjoy (dogs).

And I'll say exactly the same to any other 'I'm not like other girls, pick me' posts.

No woman or person for that matter has ever got to adulthood thinking that because food isn't important to them, it means everyone else is 'obsessed' .

Especially when they use forums.

Same as no adult woman or man has ever got to adulthood without knowing that people hurt each other by cheating.

Especially when they use forums.

So the "why is everyone here so paranoid about what their DP/DH does? I trust my DP/DH and if he doesn't come home till the early hours when he said he was coming home after work at 5, that's fine. I wouldn't give it a second thought because I'm not insecure" are also "not like other girls" posts. Which are rife.

@Scalottia

ooh yes, you’ve caught op out! Gotcha op!

🙄

@LuckySantangelo35 'catching out' OP wasn't my intention (because I am not 15 years old). Just throwing my opinion out there like everyone else.

I'm also not that bothered. I can cook but I don't enjoy it so it's the path of least resistance for me.

Unless I make the effort I'm quite happy to eat the same things every day for weeks on end. If DP and I ever split then I'll probably just live on toast with something on it. I find cooking a pointless waste of time, you can spend hours making something and it's gone in minutes leaving behind more work to clear up!

Food is fuel to me. I eat when I am hungry but I'm also usually doing something else like reading whilst I'm having lunch. It doesn't get my full attention. I'm eating an egg sandwich whilst typing this!

I think there’s loads more choice of food now. Convenience food, International cuisines, fast food, restaurants. We talk about it more, read about it. It’s been heavily commercialised.

In my Granny’s day, you would just buy it, cook it, eat it.

Completely agree - it’s pretty exhausting and I only have to feed myself!

People are also making use of food banks, community fridges, Too Good to Go, reduced aisle, so you have to work with what you’ve got. My community fridge had a load of surplus potatoes in recently, for example, so you’ve got to figure out what to do with them.