Bored With Eating

Totally bored with food. If I feel hungry, I eat whatever is there, whether I like it or not. For me, eating is a chore, like housework. I cook for my family and they love food. Me, not at all.

One of the symptoms of loss of appetite is anaemia. Have you had a blood test recently?

I agree with you! Sometimes I think I could just do with a lovely egg and bacon sarnie or a chicken tikka or whatever, go toddling off to the shops, look at the containers and think ... nah, can't be arsed!

So I'll have an extra cup of PG Tips or some other liquids instead of physical food.

I do find food boring except ice cream and yoghurts which I'm always scoffing!

yrhengastan62

The new air fryer gadget has sparked interest and is really so easy and quick. Sparked interest in meals again.

On occasion I'd treat myself with a full roast, the whole works, bottle of wine and an afternoon film prepared with after dinner chocolates too. 😁

DH normally flinches if I mention any new kitchen gadget but even he, unprompted, suggested we should get an airfryer.

Must investigate as I'm really going off cooking lately (but not eating).

Here’s what I’ve learned during my life watching others - when you are depressed or blue, your spirit is telling you you’re really just hungry. Please feed me.

I’m not advocating overeating or binge eating - just proper, healthful food.

It doesn't work like that.
Generally I try to eat healthily but I'm a comfort eater.
Some people lose pounds when they are anxious, I put it on.
It's only usually carbohydrates or sweet things which the body craves when anxious.

As someone who has suffered from depression for many years, I can tell you that my body isn’t asking for food. The tendency when depressed or simply miserable is to comfort eat - the wrong things and too much of them - which does no good whatsoever.

Gundy I couldn't agree more.

What a sad read this is, that people don’t like or want to eat.

Or can’t eat like they used to; or are depressed; or hate to cook; or don’t have a partner who enjoys; or might even be malnourished without realizing it.

To me the ❤️ of a home is the kitchen, where your staff of life (food, bread) is located. Whether you are alone or married I wish you could find solace in nourishing your body and soul.

Here’s what I’ve learned during my life watching others - when you are depressed or blue, your spirit is telling you you’re really just hungry. Please feed me.

I’m not advocating overeating or binge eating - just proper, healthful food. It could take you off your excessive vitamins and could even recalculate your medicines.
True.

You can use food to bring joy to yourself and others or you can use food to snuff out the best parts of you. Please love yourself.

Get an adult son to move back in with you to kick start your interest in lots of food. Mine did and I've gone from cheese & biscuits for my Sunday 'dinner' to a full roast, vegetarian version for me.

I really identify with all of the above. Is this something that comes with age......not eating and not enjoying food. I feel my food/cooking repetoire would be more pallatable and exciting if only I could afford to eat in the restaurants I would like to eat in, just occasionally (oh how I ache for it, but my meagre pension doesn't run to it) thus not enabling me to experience new things. I feel like I have run the gauntlet, not only with food, but different kitchens, different dining rooms, a plethora of restaurants over the years and a lifetime of different friends and acquaintances, and I seem to have spent so long "stuffing a mushroom" (an expression from the vegetarian 60's) in my own kitchen, that if I had the choice now, I would never cook again. I feel like I have "done my bit" over the years and yet always used to love eating, cooking and entertaining. I likened it to "enjoying life". If people enjoyed food, they invariably enjoyed life and sex! Those things went hand in hand. At the tender age of 70 I am now stuck at a table with a gobbling vegetarian who seems to eat 2 inches from his plate. Worse, he dribbles and loses food down his front and drinks too much whilst having the radio blaring out. Last night, I removed myself and went and sat at a table where it was quiet and I could eat at my pace and enjoyed it far more. Occasionally the family descend but I am so out of touch with eating and cooking that it becomes a chore to dish up something substantial. Yes, appetites and enthusiasm become less and less. I remember working on a Kibbutz, where there was a communal dining room. Oh, how I envy that now. Okay, so we had chicken every single day, but it would be lovely to go to a decent place for a meal where there was freshly cooked food and fresh salads to eat. Simple and easy. I just can't get excited by the food on offer in my local locality. It's all frozen and fried. Or pizza.....or fish and chips, or things with bread, lots of it. There isn't one single place where you could eat a fresh meal......and that is just what I crave these days........... Something fresh and simple.

Yes, we had a full roast dinner last weekend, all cooked in my small saucepan type air fryer.

I have also picked up a recipe for making and cooking Yorkshire puddings in small batches, ideal for just the 2 of us. I have yet to try it, but I passed it on the DD who said it worked well.

The new air fryer gadget has sparked interest and is really so easy and quick. Sparked interest in meals again.

On occasion I'd treat myself with a full roast, the whole works, bottle of wine and an afternoon film prepared with after dinner chocolates too. 😁

Happygirl79

I live alone and absolutely never get bored with eating.
I enjoy planning my meals to ensure I get plenty of variety . I relish being able to look after myself properly, getting the right nutrients for my body to stay as healthy as possible to serve me well through life.
I don't eat ultra processed foods and enjoy making my meals from scratch to ensure that they are delicious.
We mustn't think we are not worth it.
We absolutely are!

I love this Happygirl79!

Better to throw it away than eat what you do not want. There absolutely no virtue in being a human dustbin.

Have you had a check up lately with your GP? Not trying to worry you, but when I was having problems with my heart I totally went off food. As I really need to lose weight it was no bad thing. Now everything has been stabilised with medication my appetite has gone back to normal. Might be worth just checking it out?

I love cooking and baking and eating!!!

Yes mel1967

Completely agree. ! Get bored with eating. I feel your pain
A tasty curry / Thai / Chinese cooked by some one ELSE when I’m starving is about the only time it does it for me

For the last 17 months I have been prescribed the weekly injections of Ozempic - the drug for diabetics which reduces one's blood sugar. It also can be prescribed for weight loss as it often makes one feel queasy and reduces appetite as it slows the digestion so you feel full sooner and for longer. It can be like having permanent morning sickness which I suffered with badly during both my pregnancies. I've lost 2 stones and I'd already lost a lot of weight before I was put on it, so my BMI is now almost in the normal range. Unfortunately it has taken most of the pleasure out of eating. I tend to shop frequently as I often have to just buy something I fancy on the day and hope I can still face it once I've cooked it! I've completely gone off some foods altogether. Living alone has helped a bit as I can just buy what I fancy and don't have to worry about others, but I'm not always eating a balanced diet. I hate wasting food but end up throwing stuff away as I just don't fancy it after it looked great in the supermarket. I worry that if I stop the injections I might put the weight back on yet I miss enjoying food. I definitely used to live to eat but now I eat to live. I know it is not unusual for ones appetite to reduce with age and I'll be 70 later this year so I worry I may never feel completely normal again. I'm also bored with the lack of variety I can still face eating. I do still enjoy a meal out when the opportunity arises but I always worry that I might not be able to face it when I get there. Some things seem to taste different too, but I'm not sure if that is the medication or something else.

Yes I feel the same. I really used to love food but not so much now - even going out for meals doesn’t excite me very much apart from the company. I wouldn’t bother cooking if it weren’t for DH who shows no sign of losing his appetite. Maybe it’s all the years of planning, shopping and preparing, I don’t know. I feel regretful as I appreciate food is one of life’s great pleasures.

I love cooking and love eating so I have difficulty with your post. Why not look at recipe books or youtube for inspiration?

rather than throw food away, can you put in in the fridge for another day?

DonnaB5959

Well - due to oral cancer surgeries, I am no longer able to swallow. I would LOVE to be bored with eating!!

Donna

So sorry. A friend of mine is the same - she hasn't been able to eat anything more than pureed foods for 11 years

Bonnybanko Me too, after a stroke 2 1/2 years ago. I'd had 4 weeks of being on a drip, then a week of pureed food, so once I was able to eat again, it was great (and I haven't stopped since)

When working DH travelled a lot on business and, on occasion, was away for months. Like you karmalady I used fresh ingredients and still cooked. The difference being that I love casseroles and stews using lots of different ingredients and herbs and spices. I could also cook all those things I like that he doesn't. At its most basic macaroni cheese, but also chicken livers and soft cod's roes.

Sometimes I feel like cooking a meal. Somtimes I feel like cooking a batch of meals. Other times I have a sandwich or even a ready meal.

I am frequently bored of eating. I have never been that interested in food, loathe cooking and have no understanding at all of why other people like it! All that faffing around in the kitchen to produce something that takes about ten minutes to eat. We fend for ourselves in the week, which in my case means boiled eggs or sardines on toast eaten at 6pm, whilst DH is cracking open the beer and starting on some long cooking session with the aim of eating his meal about 8pm. We do share meals at the weekend, although finding a mutually compatible time to eat is a problem. I am grateful to DH for cooking the weekend meals, but I dont let on to him that I rarely look forward to long, slow eating sessions and fairly often get indigestion from eating too much too late for my metabolism.