What should I eat?

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Jan14

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I do have health issues but I am stable at the moment. Any suggestions on what to eat when nothing sounds good? I live alone, so cooking for one. Also take out ideas welcome too. In the US. No dietary restrictions.
 

Peanut butter toast! It's my go-to when nothing sounds appealing. I keep raisin bread in the freezer so it's usually peanut butter on raisin bread. Now that I think about it, that's what's for my supper tonight since I hinted to @Trila about bopping on over there to help her and šŸGuy consume the casserole she has in the oven.

Oh. Wait. A scrambled egg sandwich sounds about right, too. Drat. Now I have to make a decision...
 
Georgiagranny said:
Peanut butter toast! It's my go-to when nothing sounds appealing. I keep raisin bread in the freezer so it's usually peanut butter on raisin bread. Now that I think about it, that's what's for my supper tonight since I hinted to @Trila about bopping on over there to help her and šŸGuy consume the casserole she has in the oven.

Oh. Wait. A scrambled egg sandwich sounds about right, too. Drat. Now I have to make a decision...
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Both!!
 

I lived alone for what feels like forever. One of my favorite easy meals - I'd fry or poach an egg, put a chuck of cheese on it, put the lid on the pan and take it off the heat. While the cheese melted I toasted and buttered an English muffin, then put the egg and cheese on it and ate it like a sandwich.

Another one I liked was chili on cornbread. A can of chili, a Jiffy cornbread mix, a decent meal.
 
It might be a good idea to pick up a four-pack of meal replacement shakes for those days when you have no interest in eating.

I microwave a bag of mixed vegetables or have a bowl of cereal with almond milk on those nights when I don't feel like cooking.

Also, check out some of the frozen microwavable breakfast sandwiches.

Good luck!
 
Alligatorob said:
Have you considered meals on wheels (https://www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org/)?

I have not, but I have a friend who works for them and highly recommends their food and service. Might be worth looking into, seems that it might fit your needs.
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Back when I was single I gave a meal delivery service called Freshly. They send you a huge box of prepared meals every week. You choose the meals you want from their menu and they're prepared by the nearest restaurant Freshly contracts with.

The food was just Okay, but basically the same packaged meals at the same price as ones I can get at my grocery store's deli, and the delivery didn't get here until 9pm the day after it was supposed to get here. So I cancelled after the first week. There are other meal delivery services like Freshly, about a dozen last time I checked.
 
AnnieA said:
Is this a new thing, that nothing sounds good?
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Good question, Annie. I've experienced this myself for several months now. Last week I saw that I've lost almost 20 pounds. I'm just not hungry, not feeling hunger, and food just isn't appealing. Not even my favorites. I've talked to my doctor about it but she hasn't found a reason for it, and since I'm still within a normal weight range for my height and frame, she's not real concerned about it. But I am.
 
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Murrmurr said:
Goos question, Annie. I've experienced this myself for several months now. Last week I saw that I've lost almost 20 pounds. I'm just not hungry, not feeling hunger, and food just isn't appealing. Not even my favorites. I've talked to my doctor about it but she hasn't found a reason for it, and since I'm still within a normal weight range for my height and frame, she's not real concerned about it. But I am.
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You should be concerned if the change isn't due to loss of taste and/or smell post Covid or a medication side effect.

My first thought is depression since food isn't appealing. People who lose at the onset of diabetes usually are eating more than usual. Cancer weight loss usually occurs with normal intake...but not always.

See her again if this keeps up and use the phrase "unexplained significant change."
 
AnnieA said:
You should be concerned if the change isn't due to loss of taste and/or smell post Covid or a medication side effect.

My first thought is depression since food isn't appealing. People who lose at the onset of diabetes usually are eating more than usual. Cancer weight loss usually occurs with normal intake...but not always.

See her again if this keeps up and use the phrase "unexplained significant change."
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This loss of appetite started about a month after I got my second covid vaccine. But I can smell and tatse my food just fine, or at least, I haven't noticed a change there. I suspected the vaccine but I haven't found any mechanism (of the vaccine) that would account for it. So then I suspected it had something to do with my age, and I have seen some evidence of that but not a lot.

If Michelle didn't encourage me to eat, I'm pretty sure I'd have lost more than 18 pounds over the past year. And I will tell my PCP that I'm concerned about it, within normal range or not.
 
Jan14 said:
Good luck. Itā€™s not fun to lose appetite.
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Just remembered another meal that's easy and nutritious; rice and beans and maybe some ground beef, spices of course, rolled up in a toasted flour tortilla. I'd toast the tortilla over an open flame on my stove and flip it over a few times, then spoon on the rice and beans, add grated cheese and lettuce and wrap it up like a burrito.
 
Murrmurr said:
Just remembered another meal that's easy and nutritious; rice and beans and maybe some ground beef, spices of course, rolled up in a toasted flour tortilla. I'd toast the tortilla over an open flame on my stove and flip it over a few times, then spoon on the rice and beans, add grated cheese and lettuce and wrap it up like a burrito.
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I was heavier before never thought Iā€™d have this problem.
 
win231 said:
I don't think so. I often decide what to eat for dinner, then, after a couple of bites, I say, "Yuk, I don't want this."
Then I'll make coffee & have a few crackers while I think about it for the next several hours.
I usually end up just having a couple of apples.
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Terrible isnā€™t it? Iā€™ve heard it comes with aging as well. I try to maintain my protein. So I put peanut butter on my apples and cheese with crackers. Ugh.
 
Jan14 said:
Terrible isnā€™t it? Iā€™ve heard it comes with aging as well. I try to maintain my protein. So I put peanut butter on my apples and cheese with crackers. Ugh.
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Tonight was like that. I picked up a salad from Trader Joe's & added avocado to it. After one bite, I decided I didn't want it.
I ended up just having coffee with a slice of toast from yesterday. It was hard as a brick, so I dipped it into the coffee so I could chew it.
I think they serve better food in prison. Really ghetto, eh? :LOL:
I keep frozen bananas in the freezer. I'm having one now.
 
Jan14 said:
I was heavier before never thought Iā€™d have this problem.
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I'm average height for males, 6ft, and at about 180 pounds I was on the upper end of the average weight for 6ft. But I weighed around 180 for over 20 years, never losing or gaining more than 5 pounds. Now I'm down to 160 pounds, which is normal, but I'm not comfortable with the loss and I'm very concerned that it's happening because I'm not hungry and don't want to eat.
 
Murrmurr said:
I'm average height for males, 6ft, and at about 180 pounds I was on the upper end of the average weight for 6ft. But I weighed around 180 for over 20 years, never losing or gaining more than 5 pounds. Now I'm down to 160 pounds, which is normal, but I'm not comfortable with the loss and I'm very concerned that it's happening because I'm not hungry and don't want to eat.
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Itā€™s hard when others start noticing and saying ā€œhave you lost more weightā€. Iā€™m actually at a healthy weight now. You canā€™t be too heavy or too thin I guess. Iā€™m sure your doc can help you on this. Iā€™m actually on dialysis and on transplant list.
 

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