I am so bored of food

[SixtyFootDoll]

Bored of thinking about what we can have
Bored of shopping for it
Bored of cooking it
Even bored of eating it

If I lived alone I think I could easily live on toast and super noodles.

I can cook quite well and have a few recipe books, but find it all such a faff.

EVeryone in the family likes/ dislikes different things. The only meal we all like is a roast dinner.

Yawn.

Riven

Oblomov - thats it its a drudge.
I took my list to the soopermarket this morning
It goes something like this

Fri - Chops and mash
Sat - pizzas
Sun - roast - something
Mon - ?
Tues - Bacon and egg
Weds - ?
Thurs - Pasta

Pretty much the same week in week out.
Dull Dull Dull.
If I won the lottery I wuld get a chef in.
When DH and I met I used to love cooking.
Now I cant even watch cookery progammes

Speaking of indian takeaways, I had a dream last night about falling into a korma curry.
I specifically remember waking up after bumping my head on a cashew nut .

We have weekly staples of spaghetti, either meatballs or mince and garlic bread. I have no idea how we haven't got bored of it in the last 5 years though.
DD1(17) has been cooking dinner for us for the last 3 months or so, and it feels so good to eat food I haven't cooked.

Cookery programs - have you seen how much oil Jamie Oliver uses? I originally waved DD off when she said 'He uses bucketloads Mum, there's more oil in his body than blood!'
But really, he uses a lot!

Weekend breakfasts are the biggest pain for us, DD1 can't stand bacon and DD2 loves it, usually results in DD2 waking up DH earlier than me on a weekend so she can coerce him into making her bacon. DD1 usally spends the weekends vomiting.

It is drudgery of the highest order.
I HATE meal planning - and it's now even the cause of an argument with my mother.
She's staying with us for a short while, helping out with the kids.
I transferred my weekly meal plan to a whiteboard (instead of keeping it in XL (!)) - apparently this was insulting, as I don't trust her to feed the children properly.

She did not believe that this is how I have to plan and buy the food - otherwise we will be eating pasta every night of the week.

For a very quick, all in one meal that I nicked from Nigella, I really recommend:

bit of olive oil
chicken thighs
mini chorizo
new potatoes

• chop up and fill roasting tin
• sprinkle with oregano and orange zest if you can be bothered
• cook for 45-60 mins, depending how much food you've got in the tin

Really quick & easy, and a change from ..erm...pasta.
(Might not suit fussy eaters, although mini chorizos have a smoother taste than the big ones)

I still hate meal planning though.

I know exactly what you mean, Sixty. Every time we have a thread fantasising about what you would have if you had a windfall or won the lottery, I drone on and on and on about having a cook.

I'd have a cook sooner than I'd have a cleaner, tbh.

The last time dh and I had a serious row it was because I said to him "you choose what we're having for dinner tonight" and he said "oh I don't know, what do you fancy?".

I nearly flipped, I tells ya.

For me, it's the getting in at 6.15 5 evenings a week from work and then having to cook. I hate it.

I think I might just go to the fireworks tomorrow and grab a burger/hot dog just so I don't have to cook..

On the other hand I have the evening to myself, so could cook myself all kinds of nom

Why do you pander to your kids and cook them this crap? If that is what you give them-tasteless half digested food then that is al lthey will want.

Just cook what you want and if they don't eat it-tough.
More for you.

Whoever does the cooking decided on the menu for everyone in our house.

Moondog - you just don't understand the concept of being bored with food and cooking though, do you?

You are one of Mumsnet's most fanatical foodies. You find it impossible to grasp that people sometimes find the planning/shopping for/ cooking of food as just another chore. A chore like any other. A chore as unappealing as cleaning the bath.

I think you are in a tiny minority in that respect.

Moondog - its not just the cooking, its the whole planning, shopping, chopping, cooking , cleaning uo I hate.

I love good food and my DSs are pretty good eaaters.

My point is it is just such a dull dull chore ( for me)

You obv dont feel the same.

moondog, who are you talking to?

Dh does all food planning and internet food ordering each week in this house. We share the cooking though I just cook what he has planned. I completely agree about getting sick and tired of thinking about food. I tell you it is liberating not having to think about it. I come home on my nights to cook, check the menu plan and start cooking.

I think he is getting a bit fed up with it too though as we do tend to r
eat the same things at the moment but then I might offer tto do it one week or so (that is all I can bear) and hey presto we get a different menu

We started this (to me) lovely routine before ds was borm because dh is vegetaion and I had a few "bloody vegetarians what do you cook for them?" moments in my early days with dh so he took on the food responsibility and it has stayed like that. I remember my mother who was an excellent cook lamenting the difficulty she had with deciding what to cook. She used to get aannoyed when she asked what we wanted for dinner and we said "anything " too.

bumbling

We are having a week away in the New Year on an all inclusive break.
I cannot wait.

Oh, I have eaten the same thing for breakfast (porridge or muesli) for years, and 95% of time, lunch is a homemade sandwich with fruit but i do enjoy cooking in the evening, especially on a w/end.

I look at those £10 ready meal deals in utter bemusement because ot me, the main joy is in the actually preparation and cooking.

I wouldn't enjoy cooking fishfingers and 'nuggets' though. God, how joyless.

I am with bumbling's mother on this. I love the cooking bit - but please will someone make a decision and tell me what to cook.

DD's are the strangest children and won't eat potatoes. In any form.

If I don't make the gargantuan effort to get something in the slow cooker in the morning we just have pasta, fresh for extra 'last minute cba attack' or scrambled eggs on toast.

I go through meal planning phases and then the sheer mind numbing boredom of it makes me rebel...hence the pizza for tea as a mummy has had a long week and just cos DH is away doesnt mean I want to cook 'treat'

And my parents ran an incredibly fancy and successful french restaurant and event caterers out of the ground floor of our house for almost my entire childhood. Oh the shame.

Ilythia how fab.

It was actually

Here's the recipe:

2 tbsp sunflower oil
2 red onions finely chopped
1 chili, finely sliced
2 garlic cloves, chopped
2.5 cm lemon grass (I didn't have this)
200g red lentils
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp paprika
400 ml coconut milk
juice of 1 lime
to finish: 20g fresh coriander and 3 chopped spring onion

Fry onions, chili, garlic and lemon grass until onions have softened
Add lentils and spices.
Pour in coco milk and 900ml water.
Simmer for 40 mins or until lentils are mushy.
Add the lime juice and the coriander and spring onions reserving a little for the garnish

I enjoyed it!