I’m sick to death of it.

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.

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.

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..

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!)

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

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.

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.

Oh yes .....

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!

I find it a chore when family come to visit.
They always expect a large meal. But I also don’t feel like cooking big meals after years and years of doing it.
The pleasure and enthusiasm has completely disappeared.

I mainly have ready prepared food such as salmon or chicken pieces bumped up with fresh veg.

I hated all that faff when the kids were little. Now one is poorly and back at home, l still loathe the responsibility of cooking a proper evening meal.

I hate cooking.But am really lucky my husband has cooked for 34 years.Both him abd our daughter disliked my cooking.

Same here, I cook hubby a meal because I have to, but half the time I don't have the same and just have a sandwich or snack. He's in respite for two weeks and all I've cooked is a bacon butty and a couple of ready meals lol

I dont hate cooking but I feel that there are so many things that I would rather be doing. I dont shop, I get food delivered. About twenty years ago a dear friend of mine who was always my role model announced that she was retiring from teaching, she had brought up three children and from now on she would buy good cheese and bread and wine and give up cooking.

I get fed up of having to think what to cook and then cook it each night, Only saving grace is that we have fish and chips on a Friday evening.
But Sundays are worse! I don't always do a roast, but seeing as my son only likes chicken or fish as well as being gluten intolerant, I end up cooking 2 meals as I like lamb pork and beef.
I can't see any reason why you can't go out for a carvery - even once a month would be great. Either that or your husband can cook something on Saturday evening!

I am a reluctant cook, too! Sadly, my hubby has a spinal injury (since 2014) and needs a caliper to walk. He's too "wobbly" to be safe with anything hot, or taking food from the oven, so anything that needs to be cooked (or microwaved) has to be done by me! He does treat us both to Thursday Lunch and Sunday Lunch at our local restaurant most weeks. It's not open every day, or indeed, all year round - but he knows that cooking is a chore for me - he did do his share when younger and fitter. We are both "picky" eaters (he also has food allergies and IBS), and are trying to cut down on meat (I'd give it up altogether, but he struggles). Much sympathy here with anyone who is NOT a natural at cooking/baking etc.

NatKate You must be inside my head. Day in day out thinking of what to have to eat,then cooking whatever has come to mind. I feel there is no itger chore that needs doing every day. I too wiukd have a bit toast with cheese, beans, scrambled eggs !but no it's a cooked meal. I rarely buy prepared veg so its standing at the sink before the cooking even starts. 53 years tomorrow this has been my responsibility and I am absolutely fed up with it!

I find preparing food every day boring. I think it's mainly because I'm rately cooking what I would prefer to eat and also I'm preparing food at times I don't really want to eat. DH likes his evening meal at about 5.30 where as I could happily wait until about 7ish., and he doesn't like pasta, jacket potatoes or fish which I could happily live on, but I can't be bothered to cook seperate meals so end up just having what he's having.
Good cheese, good bread and good wine sounds like heaven to me.

Yes, I hate cooking, too, also washing up, cleaning, making the beds, doing the washing, ironing............. I'm just not a natural housewife, me, it all seems like a waste of time.

I’ve developed a real anxiety around food the last few years. I think menopause kicked it off, but now I’m just like you. The quicker it’s cooked the better. I worry much more at this time of year, as so much revolves around food. Will there be wasted food? Will there be enough? Can I get it all in my fridge? We’ve just had a new kitchen put in, a lovely tower double oven. You’d think I’d be in my element, but no, it’s just made it more necessary for masterpieces to evolve from the kitchen!! I’m just grateful this boredom has only set in the last few years, it would have been horrible to feel like this when my young family was growing up. I think there is a sense of , it should be finished, but of course it isn’t, we still need to eat. Now, I wonder, what can we have for tea??