I wish I enjoyed cooking!

Try this!

One of your 5 a day!

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Hate cooking
Always have

Luckily I've been married twice and both were a whiz in the kitchen

I hate cooking, too. DH is very fussy, partly for medical reasons, but he only likes very plain food which I find boring. Sometimes I do something different for myself but mostly I cba to cook two meals. I particularly hate doing dinner parties and usually book a table at our local pub instead. If I can get out of cooking, I will!

Not being much help to Esther1 are we. I cooked reluctantly when the children were at home and luckily had a job where meals were provided.
I have remarried and my husband was a chef in his earlier life so I am off the hook. He says the sight of me trying to cook makes his teeth itch !! Fortunately he also likes to do the shopping so he has the right ingredients. He does tend to use every pot and pan in the kitchen though.
Sorry Esther1,

I too hate cooking , never have liked it much
Not correct monica I love food, most foods and can eat for England if I allow myself just can’t be arsed to do all the faffing around My meals are normally very simple stir fries,(of all sorts which just means throwing lots of veg in a pan for ten minutes with rice or noodles and some spices), jacket potatoes, or anything that takes limited preparation and ten minutes max cooking
My eldest daughter loathes it as much as me although I did all the right things when they were small and we ‘cooked together etc’ my son is a barbecue only man and although I ve not discussed it with youngest don’t think she’s that into it either

I ve never been a kitchen woman

Actually I am relieved to hear I am not alone in hating cooking. I think my boredom of it goes back to when ‘Ready Meals’ were introduced as when my children were small back in the seventies I always cooked fairly contentedly from scratch, then one day I gave them a ready meal frozen lasagne and boy did they love it! - and not realising as we do these days, that Ready Meals are not the healthiest, I wondered why on earth I spent hours making a lasagne when they preferred one from the shop! Not much incentive to cook! Can you see the problem! It was the same with cakes- they preferred Mr Kiplings! I know I know I know about the expense and the health issues, but when cooking is such a blinkin’ chore to start with it’s just too easy to think why bother!

I've enjoyed cooking until recently, when the never ending routine is getting me down. But I enjoy my food and like to have something tasty.
I'm simplifying recipes now, and making bigger batches.
If my husband dares to complain that he didn't like so&so I tell him he can take over the responsibility for food with pleasure. That shuts him up.
When Mum was my age 83, she lived alone and stopped cooking so we managed to get a home help to come and cook her midday meal. We still had to go shopping with her though. She even went onto those rubbish ready meals for a time.

I am also very relieved to see that I am not an oddball in not enjoying cooking!
I love eating and thankfully my husband makes tasty meals.
I do everything else in the home, but loathe cooking.
I don’t know why.
I envy ( in a nice way) those you roll up their sleeves and bake and cook delicious things for their family.

I don’t like cooking or cookery programs on the radio or TV and there seems to be so many of them.

Reading these posts made me realise that it is the never ending grind of thinking what to make that is the problem. My husband's tastes have changed and he no longer likes roasts or chops or what you would call plain English food. He now wants rice, and spicy food. I like plain food so end up having to cook two meals or I have a sandwich.

Tonight I have made spag bol for him but I will have some prawns and smoked salmon. If I ever live alone I will have Cook or M&S ready meals interspersed with roasts and salads. I will never cook again, apart from a roast.

It did occur to me recently, though, that at least meal planning etc gives a structure to my day and stops me just giving up and sitting down in my recliner with a blank mind.
It's as if I never stopped going to work, whereas husband is bored in his retirement.

I am another who has become thoroughly bored with cooking. I started cooking 62 years ago and it was pretty well non-stop for 59 years, I was a fabulous cook and baker, people thought I enjoyed it but I didn`t, it was just something I had to do. On my own I eat well but it is such basic plain food now, the protein, the veg, fruit, soup, a bought pudding now and then. Scones and victoria sandwich and honestly that is pretty well it. No cooking mojo at all

I enjoyed cooking when I was younger and am quite good but I think I got bored after so many years. I also find now that cooking larger amounts when the family visit is more difficult due to arthritis in my hands and a bad back. My usual dinner when it's just me is a piece of fish or chicken with new potatoes and green veg.

I think ‘recipes’ put me off. All that faff. Can’t be bothered so it’s quality food, cooked simply for me.

“Life’s too short to stuff a mushroom!”

I haven’t baked or made pastry for 30y since our daughters were little.

I enjoy eating out - it makes a nice change because I always choose something I don’t do at home.

I don't hate cooking but I find everyday cooking boring. I think it was all those years of cooking every day for the family. So my DP does most of it now, he's not a brilliant cook but it's edible.

I love cooking for parties and visitors though.

What a relief I hate cooking too. When DH goes away for a few days I revel in NO COOKING AT ALL. I live off cereal, fruit and yoghurt. Maybe go out for a light lunch, I’m happy eating alone. I might go as far as a poached egg on toast, but that’s pushing the boat ? out. I can easily open a bottle of wine and glug with cheese and biscuits. Bliss, sheer bliss.

Ha ha MissAdventure, I could have written your post. I used to like cooking but now I like that DH does the cooking. I do bake, and I’m told I make lovely cakes, but I try to not do it too often as it’s fattening! I make cakes when the family is coming or it’s someones birthday. I also like baking with my grandchildren because they enjoy it.

What I do get thoroughly fed up with, is not the cooking, but the endless thinking about what to have - esp. if we have guests. Not that I do dinner parties any more, but just guests staying.
I do usually plan meals at least a couple of days in advance but I still find it a PITA.
Dh is useless at suggesting anything. He doesn't really cook, never has (though he's well able to make something simple if he has to) - he loads the dishwasher and clears up the kitchen - which in fact suits me fine, since I'm a messy cook.

I have always planned meals a week in advance. It takes about half an hour a week. I raely ever end up sticking to the exact plan and anything left and not used the previous week is incorporated into the next week's menu.

Now I feel guilty MOnica

I look at all the recipes in the Sunday Times; even cut some out and think I'd like to make that. But there's always one ingredient that I haven't got a clue what it is or where I'd get it from. I'd really love to have some new 'taste experiences' though but can't afford to go to fancy restaurants...I'm living on bacon and eggs at the moment; at some point I'll switch to 'something on a baked potato' for a while....

I baked our Christmas cake today and thoroughly enjoyed the process. I enjoy making a pot of soup and did for lunch. So why is it the thought of cooking a main meal leaves a heavy dread? No logic is there? Left to myself I’d live on soup and cheese.

I think cooking for yourself is not as enjoyable as cooking for yourself plus somebody else.