I’m sick to death of it.

I am so with you it is boring and I hate the fact that you can spend hours preparing a meal and it is over in a flash. I cannot bear all the cooking programmes and watching people in a professional kitchen looks like hell to me.

Framilode
Get him to cook his breakfast himself.
I struggle now that we are both retired with the job share in our house. I do all the house work.
The only thing my husband does is cook the Sunday breakfast and an occasional meal. I value that small bit of help although he never does the dishes.
I’m working on increasing his share in the house ?

I love cooking but made a vow several years ago, that I wouldn’t spend more than 30/40 minutes cooking a meal for myself and DH unless we’re entertaining. I think it’s possible to prepare and cook a Sunday roast in 40 - buy a pre cooked Chicken (assuming you wouldn’t mind the expense of that, if your prepared to go to a carvery) remove the legs and thighs (as one joint) put them in a roasting tin along with frozen roast potatoes and any other veg you want to roast. Put it in the oven 180/200oC for 35 minutes, turning potatoes and veg halfway through. Cook a few extra veg in the last 5/6 minutes, make gravy from bisto and cook a couple of frozen Yorkshire’s in the roasting tin for the last 5 mins of cooking time. You then have the remains of the cooked chicken to make a simple quick risotto, pasta bake, or just have cold in a sandwich. Hope this helps with you Sunday morning dilemma it really doesn’t need to be a chore.

i loved cooking and baking, but when your alone it all seems a faff, so i get ready meals, i get prepped frozen veg anything for easiness, and thats it for sunday dinner, some days i have no meal and have cheese and crackers instead,

I still enjoy cooking but certainly can't be arsed these days to do so daily.
OH is well aware that now, the question is not what's for dinner but is there dinner .

I think most of us, if we're honest, find cooking every night boring and repetitive. You're lucky NanKate that your DH will take over. I've been married to mine for 38 years and I don't think he's ever cooked me a meal!!!!

I used to love cooking and since I’ve been on my own (Hubbie died nearly three years ago) I really can’t be arsed any more. I have a suggestion for all those out there who feel the same. Wiltshire Farm Foods deliver lovely ready meals which go straight from freezer to oven or microwave. Really nice and a wide range to choose from.

I hate cooking, my husband cooks quite a lot, but he's a traditional meat and 2 veg man.,or something with chips. Whereas I like pasta etc. So when we got out which is about once or twice a month I always have a pasta based dish.

We very often just have a sandwich and fruit especially if i have been out most of the day, the thought of cooking a meal puts me right off. We had tuna mayo sandwich last night, hubbie had a small individual trifle after and i had an apple. No washing up to speak off and no lingering cooking smells. Today i will make a big shepherd pie for Dh and freeze some of it and i will have a salmon salad. We prefer differentt foods which i think also makes me not want to cook. I could live off salad everyday if i had my way.

MissAdventure

I'm another who hates cooking, and we had Hello Fresh for a little while, but decided it didn't suit our lifestyle. We had tried other recipe boxes and come to the same conclusion. But we decided to give it one more go and have been with our current scheme for about a year now and it seems to tick every box. Four meals a week - the other days will be beans on toast, scrambled eggs, baked potato or something quick and ready from the supermarket.

Having all the ingredients measured out in one package, no waste, helps a lot, and this particular box ( not sure I should advertise, but it starts with g) has extremely simple recipes for the most part. Many people who enjoy cooking also enjoy being creative; I don't feel creative with this box but I am now finding I enjoy choosing the meals (we always have two vegetarian and two fish) and although I can't describe the experience as "fun*, I do know we're getting a healthy meal and almost all of them taste good.

It is more expensive than buying all fresh ingredients, but we feel we're paying for the benefutd. My husband has mild Alzheimer's, and I have to watch him like a hawk when he helps me, because he keeps second-guessing and putting things in the wrong pot or forgetting the oil.

You can also allow them to choose what meals to send you, which is like Father Christmas coming! And you don't have to have it every week. And we must have cut by about two thirds the number of takeaways we have)

So if you really are bored with cooking (or, like me, don't think you're good at it) this could be a solution for you.

I don't dislike cooking, just feel I could be doing something more interesting.

One of the best things about a sunday roast (apart from the meal itself) is that there is also food for monday with next to no cooking involved.

I love cooking even for just me but then I also love food especially spicy food! I really couldn’t cope with just a sandwich or bowl of cereal as others have mentioned ?
However I find house work boring boring and tedious!!? it’s the sheer repetitive mind numbing activities that I hate! Cleaning, dusting, tidying is all so boring and hateful to me especially as it needs to be done over and over again! Cooking also has to be repeated I grant, but at least it’s something different each time and I can get my creative spirit involved whereas cleaning the loo!??‍♀️

When did you last have a holiday??
Go away for the weekend?
I get bored with my own cooking until I go away on holiday, then I realise that my own cooking is far better!

After more than 30 years of cooking for the family I did get absolutely sick of it and felt that I never wanted to see an oven again.
Now I am alone I sometimes cook and sometimes don't.
I still do a roast or a stew now and again, the rest of the time it's pasta or salad, and occasionally a ready meal. I often make large batches of stew or cottage pie and freeze them.
It's so nice to not have to cook if I don't feel like it.

I can understand that if you don’t like cooking it must be a chore...but...nothing beats the taste of home-made.
There is just no comparison.
What really worries me is that the trend for take-outs, ready meals (which I think taste horrible), and eating out, is slowly and insidiously taking over...to the extent that people won’t be able to remember what home made food tastes like.
Cooking is also an act of love, it keeps you fit as it involves a lot of standing, chopping etc.
I get that some people dislike it, and there is nothing wrong with going out to eat....but the odd home made meal here and there is not only a lot healthier and cheaper, it is also life enhancing.

Like many above l would survive on sandwiches, jacket potatoes salad etc however l am married to a man who lives to eat. My kitchen sometimes looks like a war zone with every pot pan etc out. I eat what he puts in front of me but honestly find it all a chore. Plus in my head l blame him for me being a stone heavier than l need to be.
Many l know would love this situation why can we never be satisfied!

I can't use recipes or cook books. I do look at them occasionally but I don't follow them. Some days I just open the fridge and look what's there. You can stir-fry most stuff. I also have a freezer full of stuff I might use. It's just occurred to me that I now have two basic cooking methods stir-fry one pot things and bung-it-in-the-oven and leave it there things. When the family visit I will do a Sunday roast but the rest of the time it's whaever takes my fancy. I'm so glad I don't have an OH who might expect me to cook regularly.

I really love cooking. I cook everything from scratch & I get a lot of satisfaction out of it.
Each to their own though. I can understand why some people may not like cooking but for those of us who do it is a real pleasure to put delicious food in front of our loved ones- who really do appreciate it. My DGC love cooking with me & enjoy planning the mealsd they want when they come & stay here.
I love cooking with them. My eldest DGS is very keen on cooking as he has figured out that when he goes to Uni.he will be a wow with the girls if he can cook a decent meal.
Crafty!!

Like a lot of you, I used to love cooking Sunday dinner for my family then sitting round the table catching up with their news, now I’m widowed and my children are no longer at home I miss my roast dinner, doesn’t feel worthwhile cooking it just for one so now I buy a roast occasionally, cook it, slice it and put individual portions in freezer, when the notion takes me I take it from freezer along with frozen veg, roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings and with very little effort I’m sorted, still miss having the chat round the dinner table but nothing I can do about that

I've found it really handy to use the slow cooker. I don't mind preparing veg at lunch time and I can then forget all about it until the evening.

I get a bit tired by late afternoon, now that I'm officially 'geriatric' so I can't be bothered to start cooking at that time.

I make my own 'ready meals' like a big batch of vegetable chilli or curry for dinner, then freeze some and put some in the fridge. That way, I only really cook every three or four days.

I really don’t enjoy cooking, I did it for the first 20 odd years of our marriage, then we went on an overseas holiday, on the plane home we were watching the in flight entertainment which happened to be a show about a chef called Antonio Carluccio. My husband turned to me and said......you know all the best cooks are men.....so I said ok it’s your turn then and he’s been doing the cooking ever since. I do the chopping but he is in charge of the kitchen... I love it

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My feeling is, as with any other endevour, you get out of cooking what you put in. If you just cook the same old stuff day in and day out it is boring but if you extend yourself and try new recipes so you learn and develop you will find it more rewarding.

My take on life is prepare prepare prepare....as I like to be a guest at my own party lol. So over the years I've pre prepared Christmas meat months ahead by carving up and keeping the best bits for the big day. I also refuse to 'make' everything traditional. Before we retired I also did not adhere to traditional roast on Sunday by having a mini one during the week. I too am fed up with cooking so at least two items on a plate are store bought. My husband cannot complain as he can only do sandwiches!! I think some traditions hem you in so in my retired life I do like to spin the changes.