Getting tired of food

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caroln

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After 50+ years of planning dinners, making lunches and cooking breakfast, I'm getting so burned out that sometimes even thinking about food makes me not want to eat at all. I don't even know what to cook anymore that doesn't seem like the same thing we ate yesterday. Bored with food, bored with trying to think of something different to eat, bored with cooking...period. 1st world problem, I know. I should feel lucky I have food to eat when many don't. But I'm SO SICK OF CHICKEN!!!! :sick:
Sorry for the rant.
 

I can understand getting tired of "laboring" in the kitchen. A few years ago, I relieved my wife from the Breakfast duties, and started making my own. And, about once a week, I make Supper....I just let my wife select the recipe she wants me to follow. This routine gives her a break, and helps me prepare to take over if she ever becomes too ill to cook....or dies.
 
Don M. said:
I can understand getting tired of "laboring" in the kitchen. A few years ago, I relieved my wife from the Breakfast duties, and started making my own. And, about once a week, I make Supper....I just let my wife select the recipe she wants me to follow. This routine gives her a break, and helps me prepare to take over if she ever becomes too ill to cook....or dies.
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A prince among men - to say the least
 
caroln said:
After 50+ years of planning dinners, making lunches and cooking breakfast, I'm getting so burned out that sometimes even thinking about food makes me not want to eat at all. I don't even know what to cook anymore that doesn't seem like the same thing we ate yesterday. Bored with food, bored with trying to think of something different to eat, bored with cooking...period. 1st world problem, I know. I should feel lucky I have food to eat when many don't. But I'm SO SICK OF CHICKEN!!!! :sick:
Sorry for the rant.
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That's about the most honest, sincere, straightforward post I've ever read!
I remember feeling like that when my husband was still alive.
I've noticed "chicken" is the only affordable protein, these days!
 
caroln said:
But I'm SO SICK OF CHICKEN!!!! :sick:
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Can't you eat something else?

Be a vegetarian for a week.
Try beef, fish, pork, lamb,
Have pot roast for breakfast and scrambled eggs for supper.
Try making a new homemade soup.
Let picky eaters fend for themselves.
If you're a picky eater, I don't think I can help.
Like Gardenlover said; try wine...put some of it in the food.
Good luck.
 
Cooking becomes a chore when I'm in the middle of my projects, hobbies and garden work. That is when my big freezers come in handy. I drag out a casserole, or anything else I have stashed away. My hubby isn't fussy and will eat leftovers. He makes his own breakfast and lunch so that's a help.

These days it is a challenge because of the high cost of meats and all the shortages. I go into a store with a particular recipe in mind and I can't get some of the ingredients, that is very frustrating when trying to plan a meal.

I'm not sure I will ever get bored with food. I have a few favorites I can eat day in and day out. A bowl of plain pasta and sauce suits me fine as well as beans and rice and eggs any way they can be prepared.
 
I am at the point now that I just eat when and what I want. Thank God I don't have to cook for anyone anymore! I bought a big bag of frozen, cleaned, and cooked shrimp. I take a few out, run under cold water and they are ready to eat. I pour some cocktail sauce in a little dish, take a couple of slices of sharp cheddar cheese, add some Ritz crackers to my plate and I am ready for a light supper. I have my little coke and enjoy. Sometimes I will add a boiled egg if I have cooked some. Its very filling for me. For dessert I have a couple of Girl Scout cookies if I have them. Don't have to have cookies but its that time of the year and I usually have some in the freezer. I also keep frozen corn dogs and have one about once a week. Sometimes I will have cornbread and beans which I love. Nice to just worry about me for a change!
 
caroln said:
After 50+ years of planning dinners, making lunches and cooking breakfast, I'm getting so burned out that sometimes even thinking about food makes me not want to eat at all. I don't even know what to cook anymore that doesn't seem like the same thing we ate yesterday. Bored with food, bored with trying to think of something different to eat, bored with cooking...period. 1st world problem, I know. I should feel lucky I have food to eat when many don't. But I'm SO SICK OF CHICKEN!!!! :sick:
Sorry for the rant.
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Caroln,
Speaking as a chef, it sounds like you really need something dramatically different AND easy to prepare. If interested, contact me and I'll give you some great ideas. One thought immediately comes to mind. Try making corned beef with cabbage, potatoes and carrots. Simple as 1-2-3. The corned beef is already to cook. It's in the cold meat section of your super market. Just open the vacuum packed bag slip it in some water to cover by 2 inches, open small packet of spices, inside the vacuum packed bag, add 2 large bay leaves, turn down to a low simmer and cook VERY SLOWLY for 2-3 hours. At near supper time, when corned beef is done, just peel waxy potatoes, carrots, and cabbage and simmer in the liquid left over from the corned beef. Hint: rye bread goes wonderfully with this.
Not only the above but you'll have leftovers for corned beef sandwiches on rye bread.
 
Don M. said:
I can understand getting tired of "laboring" in the kitchen. A few years ago, I relieved my wife from the Breakfast duties, and started making my own. And, about once a week, I make Supper....I just let my wife select the recipe she wants me to follow. This routine gives her a break, and helps me prepare to take over if she ever becomes too ill to cook....or dies.
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Sensible policy. My wife spent her working life as a paramedic in the ambulance service, which meant that she worked various shifts around the clock. It was my opportunity to learn to cook and I took to it. At first the kitchen looked like a bomb had hit it because I was so intent on making sure that nothing spoiled, I just took another clean utensil, another serving dish, another this, that and the other. The meals were lovely but the kitchen looked better with the door shut.
 
When I simply don’t know what to eat anymore or don‘t want to bother with long preparation, I’ll simply violate the rules and have something easy to fix that I think I can stand to eat. For me, breakfast isn’t simply for breakfast anymore. I’ve been known to have a bowl of cereal for lunch, or eggs and toast for dinner. Pasta is an easy fix, and can be varied a number of ways; noodles are our friends! I still eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The microwave is king in my kitchen…
 
Since I only have to cook for myself it can be as easy as I make it or not. Depends on how I feel. I love to cook but know the feeling of getting tired of cooking big meals for others. Spend all day in the kitchen and it is gone in 15 minutes. Then spend hours cleaning the kitchen and washing dishes. Things are so much easier since I now live in an apartment. I cook breakfast and then have a meal replacement shake, pudding or ice cream for supper. I do not eat at any certain time, just when I get hungry. I only worry about protein, whatever source.
 
Jan14 said:
I am with you on the food thing. I had a banana split the other night for supper!
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The other day, around 5pm, I was sitting on the couch watching TV munching on a bag of popcorn. Normally I'd be in the kitchen prepping food at that time. My husband walked by and looked at me strangely, so I just held up the bag and said, "Dinner. Want some?" He laughed, but I was only half kidding.
 
Yeah, you do get into those funks when nothing appeals to you. There's an easy solution- don't eat.
That works every time. If there's one thing my body does well is let me know when it needs food. Hunger makes everything taste good. If night, after night, at 6:17, you eat your first bite of food, you are bound to get bored with food.
My brother is into not eating "processed foods". He eats something from soy beans , which was made in a factory that "tastes" just like chicken; but he won't eat any of those horrible "processed foods".??????
 
Try making this famous Texas dish, King Ranch Casserole - the flavors are a bit spicy and different when put together and is sure to please just about anyone. You can use canned turkey in place of chicken - I've made both versions and served it to many happy dinner guests. You can make it up and stick it in the fridge till you bake it. Freeze leftovers for another full meal or two:

https://www.theseasonedmom.com/king-ranch-chicken-casserole/
 
caroln said:
Getting tired of food
Bored with food, bored with trying to think of something different to eat, bored with cooking...period.
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I hit that wall sometimes, will just go 'minimal' and buy quick easy items like fruit, frozen veggies, maybe get some potatos to nuke in the microwave. Or, like yesterday we picked up some cheap Chinese for lunch, have leftovers for another meal.

caroln said:
I'm SO SICK OF CHICKEN!!!!
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I LOVE chicken! I love each and every one of them! I would raise chickens but then they would end up with names, which means we couldn't ever eat them. :oops:
 
Liberty said:
Try making this famous Texas dish, King Ranch Casserole - the flavors are a bit spicy and different when put together and is sure to please just about anyone. You can use canned turkey in place of chicken - I've made both versions and served it to many happy dinner guests. You can make it up and stick it in the fridge till you bake it. Freeze leftovers for another full meal or two:

https://www.theseasonedmom.com/king-ranch-chicken-casserole/
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Always loved this dish. We used to make it all the time and always kept one in the freezer. It was ideal for pot lucks at Church.
 

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