To give up on dinners entirely?

[Goodgravythisisfantastic]

So bloody sick of thinking about food. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, every day, every week, every month. Who cares?

Tonight we had beans on toast with sausages and fried egg. Son (nearly 3) ecstatically happy. I realised everyone is happier with the simpler meals and I'm happier for cooking them.

I'm ready to give up and cook only beans on toast, baked potatoes, tuna pasta, fish finger sandwiches, toasties with soup, and chicken burgers.

YABU- stop being lazy and cook a decent meal ffs
YANBU- embrace the lazy dinners. Everyone's happier. In fact here are some lazy dinner ideas of my own...

Thanks in advance! 😴🥱🥔🥪🍳🌭🫘

Do what makes you all happy.

This has to be a wind-up, right?

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, every day, every week, every month. Who cares?

Ah yep. Another one of those people who feel food planning is above them. Why is this the case especially here in the UK?

It doesn’t have to be a chore…

YANBU OP. DH does the cooking for us and would happily prepare complex dinners every night but we agreed recently to have easier / cheaper options at least 3 nights a week. Jacket potatoes, soup and rolls, something on toast etc..

Well bully for you if you enjoy a bit of food planning, but I'm with the OP, I hate the constant grind of meal planning and cooking and left overs and food shop!

OP YANBU, it's one of the most painful things about my adult life 🤣

nothing wrong with home made chicken burgers, just not UPF ones.

Nothing wrong with the other stuff either really, just add veggies.
For pudding just have fruit/cheese/ice cream/yoghurt.

Your plan just needs tweaking a bit so it's healthy as well as easy. You'll be fine, but yeah, it's fucking boring feeding everyone until you die lol.

You wot?

Get some beans on toast down your neck hen.

"Until you die lol"

😂

I'm with you OP. I would be quite happy to have pretty much the same thing every day.
Food is fuel to me.
(obviously I do have favourites and things I like as a special treat - but generally I'm "meh" about it all)

The best thing about the two days DS(3) spends at nursery is no stressing about food.

I've given up cooking for my 5 year old. It's not even that he eats the usual children's menu fodder - he doesn't eat pizza, chicken burgers, sausages, potato shapes or chips, mash, beans, peas... he just does not like hot meals. He eats most of his school dinners, which I think is peer pressure, so in the evenings, sandwich and fruit it is.

NO problem as long a s you can get some more vegetables into that.

I hate meal planning. At most I'll prep salads. I hear you.

I do not enjoy the relentless meal prep. To the point that I frequently get to about 5 pm, eat a banana or an orange and then nothing else until breakfast. Some days I would rather be hungry than faff with food.

Before I get a lecture, yes, I actually eat very healthily, at least 10 fruit and veg a day, virtually no upfs and very little junk.

Absolutely! Mine eats fairly well, it's just a bit of a set menu of favourites on rotation. So fuck it, I'm having beans on toast too. I like beans on toast!

God bless nursery dinners ❤️

Before I get a lecture, yes, I actually eat very healthily, at least 10 fruit and veg a day

Please tell me how you manage, as I'd love to. I'm serious. Thanks.

cook easy 3-4 nights a week and make an effort at the weekend. that should be more manageable.

it's fucking boring feeding everyone until you die

New contender for on my gravestone 🤣

I feel you OP

They say some people live to eat and others eat to live. I am definitely an eat to live person. Food just doesn't interest me most of the time. I don't cook anything anymore. DH is a pretty good cook, and kids are now at an age where they can cook and fend for themselves when they're around.

I feel that last sentence in my bones 😭😭😭🤣

This sentance ❤️

Can't speak for PP, but a good day for me fruit and veg wise is like this:-

Porridge with raspberries (1) and strawberries (2)
Banana (3)
Tuna sandwich with pea shoots (4) and a satsuma (5)
Chilli with onion (6), chopped tomatoes (7), onion (8), kidney beans (9), garlic (10) and guacamole with avocado, cherry tomatoes, red onion, coriander, lime (10,11,12...)

Adding fruit to porridge and eating meals you can add a lot of veg too (chilli, risotto, soup, curries) is the easiest way for me.

But don't listen to me because I'm done with that life. I'm all about the beans on toast now.

Oh god… I get it. @Goodgravythisisfantastic

It’s a race to the bottom, and only the cool kids who agree with you that making food is shit , and we should all eat processed comfort food, are “in”.

P.S I’m not a farmyard animal.

You need the "lol" at the end.

That makes it 👌🏻

@JacquesHarlow

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Most my weekday meals are quick meals from the freezer or cupboard. Weekends are for proper home made meals then Sundays leftovers on Monday!

My two are happy with noodles, egg and soldiers, pitta with cheese, veg sticks and hummus or marmite toast on some days