I’m sick to death of it.

NanKate I feel exactly the same, I detest cooking. I don’t know how to use herbs and quite frankly I’m not interested in learning either. We had foreign students live with us for 24 years all year round when I was bringing my son up. DS was a very very fussy eater, my DH thought only meat and 3 veg was a ‘proper’ meal and I was always on a diet of some sort so every night I would cook at least 3 different dinners for us all without a thought. But the moment DS left home 28 years later that was IT! Told DH I hated cooking and we shopped ready meals from M&S, but sick of them now to be honest. I did try hello fresh and I actually did enjoy them but they do take longer than half an hour and as I’ve had 2 major back surgery’s cannot stand for long now. Personally if I lived on my own I would be slimmer because a jacket potato with prawns or salad would do me every night or spaghetti on toast or sandwich. Have thought recently like Pantglas2 on a better day batch cook some vegetables and chilli/ spaghetti bolognese. If I can find the energy after Christmas might just do that. But I am reassured by this thread that I’m not lazy and I’m not the only woman in the world that absolutely hates cooking!

Oh yes .....

I recommend pasta, stir fry vegetables, curries and casseroles. Curries and casseroles can be prepared in advance and frozen then all you need to do is cook some rice, or even simply boil the kettle to make couscous, takes 5 minutes.

Oooops I love cooking, I even cook a roast just for myself which my dh thinks is hilarious.
Maybe I need to get a life ladies .
By the way NanKate you have one wonderful understanding husband for sure.
But you don`t need me to tell you that I`m sure.

Bored and boring no one ever starved or starves in my house...... but I hate cooking too!

Just stock up at a freezer shop, meat one side of your freezer, veg at the other. I bet he'll not even notice. (For years I used to miss the family festivities on Christmas day as I was cooking in the kitchen all day - what a waste of family time!)

I don't mind cooking a roast dinner, it's just all the washing up afterwards

Now I'm on my own, and on a prediabetic course, I've turned to the wholewheats and grains - pasta, rice, bulgur wheat, bread - and treat myself with a range of vegetables which I've always loved most. Lots of fish, hardly any meat except the occasional chicken. Mixed vegetable stew with lentils and beans added cooked in the pressre cooker lasts me 2 days with another portion frozen. Yesterday it was roasted veg tray bake with sausages, the leftovers today mixed with couscous cooked with a stock cube. All things DH would have turned his nose up at but I am so enjoying.

Both myself and DH are very good cooks. We never eat ready meals are pre-prepared anything. Taken 40 years to get to where we are. Last night we had steak and ale pies, tonight coq au vin from the freezer and tomorrow red lentil dahl and spinach curry. Absolutely love my food.

I have cooked my my husband and kids for 48 years..... I loathe and detest cooking and think it’s a total waste of time when there are books to be read! I do it begrudgingly. My husband hasnt cooked s meal in all that time , but worse, we have never had a Sunday lunch in a restaurant unless my kids have taken me for my birthday. He totally refuses to eat out, and if I went on my own , he would just eat a handful of biscuits . He is without doubt the laziest person anybody of my acquaintance has ever known....theyve told me so! Recently I have refused to cooked a full blown roast on Sunday’s unless kids and grandkids are coming... I seem to enjoy cooking then’ . it’s just after a lifetime of cooking for this ungracious man, who knows I dislike cooking , but never so much as offers me beans on toast ...even when I was laid up with my bad back! I get tea and cheese and crackers. When I had pneumonia ... years ago...after three days ...the doctor came to check on me , and said I had to go into hospital ( which I did t want) as I was being ‘neglected’. Anyway....no more Sunday roasts for us.... total rubbish to prepare and cook for two people...and takes about 2/3 hours!! No more.

NanKate I dislike cooking too.
If it were left to me we would have Iceland microwave meals every day or Gregg’s pasties.

take turns to do dinner/supper. cant think why you have it in the evenings though. have it at dinner time 1pm then you got all afternoon and evening to do what you like .better still get a roast dinner from M & S. just add yorkshires etc..

Hate having to cook for anyone. Not so bad when it is my choice. None of the women in this household can be arsed anymore.

I used to very much enjoy cooking for my family (most of the time ) Living alone now I barely cook at all but try to eat well to stay healthy. Surprised by how many people feel the same as I do about it.

After cooking Christmas dinner for 23 consecutive years, I went on strike and insisted on a hotel lunch. It was so eye wateringly expensive ( double normal price ) and so inadequate, that I returned to the stove slavery the next year. That was long ago. I live happily alone now and do as little cooking as possible. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND ready made mashed potatoes (even Delia has used these). Also frozen vegetables which are more nutritious than bought in a supermarket and even in veg. boxes. Such stratagems make cooking veggie meals very easy and quick. Cooking meat is time consuming and impractical for one person except occasionally. I like ham and cheese sandwiches for the protein.

PS Forgot to add - a friend of mine went through this and moaned constantly that her husband wouldn't do any of the cooking. I happened to be there one evening when he tried to do spag bol (following her written out instructions). She hovered over him and criticised everything he did, finishing with "oh, for God's sake, let me do it ... " Was it any wonder that he never tried again ??

My husband does 50% of the cooking - otherwise we'd live on sandwiches and soup (and the occasional salad). We've always cooked from scratch and now, like a lot of people here, I can't be a***d. I have been known to "down tools" and go on strike and he just sighs and takes over (even after a day at work) Certainly if others are "demanding" cooked breakfast, roast dinners, etc. I would say that it's time they learned to cook them. Actions speak louder than words - if you are sick of it, don't do it - if you keep on doing it, they'll keep on letting you !

I like cooking and baking, but now feel like the mouse on the treadmill, neverending planning shopping cooking.Husband does do the washing up, but it takes him about as much time as I do with everything else.
He has many likes and dislikes, and won't eat 'shop made rubbish'. Even bread.
He's offered do do some of the baking, but from past experience it doesn't help - he spends all day on a simple job and keeps asking me questions about it.
I know I've spoilt him, but we do have healthy meals
Had a big row about it last night, he's so b.....y fussy!

Keeper1 I don't want to cook, although I did for family as they were growing up. I think being a weightwatcher spaoils it a bit too. And I don't have the energy to do it daily now. We do have ready meals and fresh veg mostly. Burgers and buns or hot dogs are favourite treats, but only after weigh in . But I DO like watching cooking programmes. I don't want to cook like them, I want Nigela, or James Martin to invite me to eat with them though after they cook

Me too, Nankate. I use frozen veg, just bung in boiling water and Bob’s your uncle (apart from carrots, I like fresh carrots but they take only a couple of mins to prepare). I also have frozen roast potatoes and started using frozen Yorkshire puds too. Easy peasey. Can’t stand cooking nor deciding what to have, like you I will have a sandwich or something simple if it’s just for me - wish someone else would do it all for me.

I used to like cooking when our children were living at home, but after decades of cooking the same meals it became a chore, particularly now it's just us two. Now we've discovered the keto diet and it's a whole different type of meal to that I always did - the old meat and 2 veg one - and my interest in cooking has been rekindled, although I'd still prefer to not cook at all. Maybe trying a different style of meal might help stave off other's boredom too? Obviously it won't help if you've never enjoyed cooking though.

magrithea, I disagree with your comment that most of us, if we are honest........

I love cooking as I said above!

I don’t mind cooking but do get bored trying to think of something different. DH isn’t fussy and likes most things. I had been going to make a proper Sunday dinner last night as my son was coming up. He cancelled through the day as he has a bug. So we had baked beans on toast with bacon and it was delicious. And pretty fuss free.

Could you not swap some of your jobs with DH so you do something you haven't done every day all your life, and he can do the cooking that you are bored with? There are very few jobs a man can do that a woman cannot, and if you have to learn a new skill it might be more interesting to you than same old same old.

Hi cooked for a living, retired 6years ago for health reasons. Different type of cooking these days use lot's of hacks