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! 😴🥱🥔🥪🍳🌭🫘

No room in my little kitchen sadly, did look into getting a small one that sits on the work top but it isn't really an option sadly

@Goodgravythisisfantastic she had herb and garlic mayo sauce but just dipped the chips in it.
(personally any form of mayo with chips......ewwww)

I feel you. I'm a good cook and enjoy it and eating generally but it's been ruined by the routine of family and being forced to make something. Ds is in school so gets a full hot meal and pudding. DD is with childminder and gets similar so yes probably 3 nights a week on school nights it's sandwiches or wraps or omelette. One night it's supermarket curry with rice and a side I cook myself in ten minutes. Another night leftover pasta. Another night fresh sushi from the sushi counter if I've done the big shop. Another, will be freezer food, pizza, fishfingers and chips etc.

I might do something more involved at the weekend but either lunch or dinner will be something quicker. If it was just the cooking it would be one thing but the cleaning is more too plus cost of using the oven/gas hob.

Your post is music to my ears!!!! Honestly... I cook three different things every night, an really try to do something nice an no one even cares, sometimes I'd like ABIT of recognition for the effort I put in, haha I was only thinking about an hour ago Im just guna do egg on toast it's cheaper quicker an I don't think anyone would even care 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Add to that and have Coeliacs Disease...frigging nightmare, forever having to read labels! And before anyone says that's just a fad. It ain't! It's autoimmune and eating gluten triggers severe damage to the small bowel with terrible symptoms. Phew! Could have made beans on toast by the time I typed this. Only thing is gluten free bread is disgusting.

Goodness me some of these comments! I also hate it, OP. I hate trying to find something everyone will eat only to end up cooking three different meals and getting judged for that because 'my kids eat what they're told to eat'. STFU, Tracy. My kids are autistic as fuck and I consider it a win if we all survive the day.

I'm team beans forever (with gummy multivits and a smoothie chucked in).

I have found my tribe! My sisters get very wound up that my 90 year old mother isn't cooking and eating properly. She does cook a bit (has always been an amazing cook) but happily lives on crisps and grilled bacon. Sisters do not have kids. Mother and I bond over the sheer dullness of having to think about bloody food all the time. As for peeling spuds...the boredom of spuds. I think aged 90 she can eat what she likes! I love it when husband is away and its just basics and wine.

Quick pasta dish is boil pasta, open jar or packet of passata, stir in, heat gently, chuck in tuna, tons of cheese.

it's fucking boring feeding everyone until you die

Fuck yes.

Me too!

I agree @44PumpLaneand OP, meal planning is an absolute ball ache, I've had enough of it as well.

@KathieFerrars

is there anyone reason why you couldn’t give that pasta dish to your family though? You could add in some sweetcorn or frozen broccoli if you wanted I guess but I don’t see why it needs to be reserved for when it’s just you!

Sometimes food planning gets right on my nerves. Sometimes I just don't fancy any of the meals on our list. And I stand in the supermarket, thinking if I have to eat another spag bol / shepherds pie, steak and kidney pie with three steamed veg / .... I could scream. So I do get it.

@LuckySantangelo35 I do! It's my go to can't be bothered to cook meal or just arrived on self catering holiday and need to feed them. I've been cooking non stop for 35 years and I am so fed up of it.

I'm with you on this. I work 3 long days and have been coming home and cooking much more simply. DH working from home at the time but never lifted a finger towards putting food on the table. He has a job now and can have hot food for free at lunch. He has been told to eat at work as I am not making any food on my longs days any more. Not sure he likes it but I'm happier 😊

This. This is my life. Except also wrangling two cats who are trying to jump on the table and eat the kids' food at the same time. I spend 30 mins making something healthy, to a background of screaming and fighting, which they might possible try a spoonful of, only to scrape it all into the green bin 4 minutes later.

I’ve had jacket potato with cheese , beans and red onion every day since Friday
I can’t be arsed for one, and for 2 I’m not spending another thought planning a meal cos by the time I’ve planned it, bought the stuff for it and cooked it, I find I don’t even bloody want it

I'd love a job where I got hot meals for free! What a money saver. I'd load up on lunch and have soup or a sandwich every night for dinner at home.

I’d be ecstatic too! Your new menu sounds lovely. Food is about nutrition AND enjoyment. If this suits your family go for it.

Heads off find a tin of beans

I bloody love a food shop... Meal planning is my thing.. plus it saves money too doing 1 big shop a week rather then daily supermarket runs.. I always make everything from scratch too but that's because of a health condition so I can't eat processed food.. plus I have an autistic daughter so trying to hide vegetables in her meals are fun for me... Watching her eat dinner knowing how much goodness she is eating when she has no clue :)

It’s not a chore if you enjoy it

I hate deciding, buying and then making the goddamn meals every single fucking day

The wind-up has got to be that you can't understand that others don't necessarily feel the same way about things that you do.

It's hardly shocking to not enjoy cooking in the slightest.

Picky plates for the win!! Apple, cucumber, tomatoes, malt loaf, cheese and crackers, some cooked buttered pasta, boiled egg, chopped up ham, grapes, crisps (if you feel guilty, lentil crisps for health), nuts, dairylea triangles - whatever they want.

Balanced and absolutely minimal effort. WIN.

@Goodgravythisisfantastic thank you for the best thread ever!

I hate cooking, absolutely bloody loathe it and I hate food planning and shopping even more!!

When we were kids, my mum had some kind of midweek tea rota going on then Friday night was always chippy tea. Saturday was potluck and Sunday was a roast.

My 2 DS's are now moved out but let me tell you, I bloody hated feeding them! It was a chore from start to finish. One would like something, the other wouldn't or they both would like something but if I did it more than once, they wouldn't eat it again. I have thrown so many plates away still containing food in temper. I started buying paper plates to eat off.
I swear I hate cooking because of them two 🤣

I have decided I'm a picnic person. I don't even make the sandwiches - I buy a ready made platter from Costco and will buy cold meats, hummus, olives, cheeses, veggie sticks fruit etc to go with them. It's like an all day grazing board.

I tried HelloFresh but after a couple of weeks struggled to decide what 3 meals I wanted for the following week 🤣

I will make homemade soup packed with veggies, jacket potatoes, a chicken tray bake but that's probably my limit these days.

#picnicfoodforever

Oh and another staple of the picky plate - mini cheddars. Also gherkins or pickles. Seriously, I just chuck whatever I have in the house on a plate -something from each food group. If I'm feeling really slatternly, I even let them watch telly whilst they eat. I know, I am the laziest mother in the universe.

All jokes aside I agree with PPs who said they like cooking but hate the inevitability and tedium of having to be the mother f*cker who does it all the damn time. Anything that makes the rush easier some days is OK by me.

Maltloaf 😍😍😍😍