Food takes over your life!

[PassingStranger]

Every day 3 times a day it's what shall I/we eat?
If we are not shopping for it, preparing it, or eating it, we are thinking about it? What are we going to have for the next meal?

If we go out for the day, we still have to think about it, are we going to take sandwiches etc, or buy food out.

It takes over.
Wonder if they will ever come up with a food pill or something where it dosent need to take up so.much of your time and energy?
Anyone got this sussed?
Anyone got any thoughts on the future?

Wonder if they will ever come up with a food pill or something where it dosent need to take up so.much of your time and energy?

Back in the day one of the school mums I was pally with had zero interest in food but she would join in meals at get-togethers and eat whatever was put in front of her and didn't make a fuss.

I think she's the only person I've ever met who said she really would have preferred to just take a pill to survive, rather than eat.

Food is one of the most easily available life pleasures for me, and I don't feel the same.
I actively dislike having to make meals for my children because of the pressure to balance the nutrients and the difficulty of dealing with a fussy eater, but it's one meal a day (2 at the weekend) so I wouldn't say it takes over my life. Breakfasts are cereals/porridge/yoghurt and that doesn't really count as a meal to prep.

A food "pill" doesn't exist, but there are plenty of "meal shakes" options. Ready made shakes in little bottles perfectly proportioned to cover all key nutritional values of a full meal. Balanced, healthy and filling. If enjoying your food is not something you would miss, that's an option you could look into.
I would personally feel really sad to miss out on a tasty meal though

My little one has CMPA and the amount of time spent reading labels is fucking soul destroying.

That’s hard with a little one - you have my empathy!

Me and my kids love curry..we could eat it most days. Unfortunately my husband is really annoying and moans that we have curry too often. He also doesn't like pasta. My oldest son doesn't like mash. Meal planning drives me bonkers. If it were up to my husband we would have annoying shit like mixed grill or meat and 2 veg every day

They do in my son's school. He's taking it as a GCSE so I get to sample his creations once a week at the moment 😋

Food doesn't take up much of my time or thoughts. I do a weekly shop where I buy a selection of straightforward, basic breakfast and lunch foods -cereals, bread, nut butter, hummus, fruit, yoghurt, tinned beans etc and prepare and eat them in 5 minutes as needed at meal times, or stick them in a lunch box if going out. Dinner takes a bit more thought and time, but very much the same principle. Weekly purchase of a selection of protein and carb options and loads of fresh, frozen and canned veg, then turn it into a meal each evening, taking on average 30 minutes. I think about food when I'm hungry or asked for food, and just go and get something as above. Or sometimes when I see food I might do some opportunist eating, but I need to pass the cake shop or food stall for the idea to be planted in my head.

It’s the deciding what to cook that irritates me. No one suggests anything, then everyone moans that they didn’t want whatever I cooked. And when you have a big late lunch at the weekend and everyone asks me what’s for dinner and I tell them I’m not hungry so not having any and they still expect me to prepare something.

top tip - get teens to do cookery as their duke of Edinburgh skill.

I enjoy thinking about what I fancy eating next. If a craving doesn't pop up I rack my brain for yummy things I haven't eaten in a while. Then I fantasise about how it will taste. Then I go and get it/cook it and eat it and usually love it! Then the cycle starts all over again.

I can't understand some people who could just take a food pill. No interest whatsoever, just know they need fuel to survive.

I know some people find it distressing but I think it's just fun and comforting and interesting thinking about food!

I was that way before I had kids, but with two other people’s preferences to consider, and plan around it becomes a job of work especially during school holidays. Oh for the days when I didn’t need to think too far ahead.

Yeah, I guess I'm lucky. I do get a bit of a kick out of planning meals, but the plans nearly always don't quite work out! I've one very fussy eater and one very unfussy one. I'm somewhere in the middle but I do nearly all the cooking in the house by choice.

I think some people genuinely struggle with things but others just make a big deal of things like this, also things like emails from school etc as they like to make themselves sound busy.

For us, food has never really been a problem, despite one of my children having an allergy, one being incredibly ‘fussy’ with textures, and having a mix of meat eaters, vegetarians and vegans in our household. One of us puts a bit of thought into the week ahead when we order the shopping, we do check labels due to the allergy and preferences, but then we just make meals with the food we have ordered.