I’m sick to death of it.

You are not alone NanKate, you are not lazy either. It just so happens that you don’t like cooking. I manage to churn out complete crap most of the time, nothing wrong with the food it is what I do to it. When my DDs left home I told DH, “that’s it, no more cooking for me”. He didn’t believe me but was more or less true. I do so wish he could cook but he is even worse than me. How we managed all those years I will never know. Bring on the ready meals/carvery/takeaways! I regard making a cup of tea as cooking. Much easier having black coffee.

I think as we get older we do not have as much appetite and therefore lose the impetus to cook. And weariness doesn't help either.

Not that I've ever enjoyed cooking.

I'm happy with a cheese sandwich, a couple of tomatoes and a bag of crisps.

To me cooking's a pointless exercise! Basically eating food is a necessity to staying alive, so anything cooked by me is thrown together and eaten on the run. On the other hand, Mister b is (in his mind) a Chef of the highest degree and every meal presented by him comes with a squiggle, pinch or little bunch of something artistically arranged on top, covered with a piquant sauce and smelling of exotic things. Give me egg 'n' chips anyday

I am just like you. I fed my children well with good balanced meals cooked from scratch. Now, however, I am cooked out. My husband still wants a cooked breakfast and a main meal at night. After 52 years it has become a disliked chore.
He is away for a whole week and I am living on my favourite sandwiches and some tasty bits and pieces from M&S. Bliss.

When I stayed at my daughters whilst she was away, she still had her 'hello fresh' meals delivered.

I was nearly in tears, up to my elbows in raw pork, shaping it into patties, and caramelising onions.

Oh I am so with you! Such a waste of time and effort.

Now on my own i can't be bothered , but took a notion and made an omelette for lunch

I used to cook when my daughter was growing up.
Always a roast on a Sunday, and plain, wholesome meals during the week.

Oh NanKate don’t put yourself through it! I love cooking for others but can’t be arsed for myself so know exactly where you’re coming from.

My answer to the drudgery is to batch bake on ‘happy’ days so that I have 2-4 meals in the freezer (chilli, bolognese, curry) and all I have to do is boil some rice, pasta or spuds. was

Intersperse these meals with eating out and the odd ready made and maybe a takeaway and all of a sudden you’re only cooking twice a week! Planning is everything when you hate doing something!

I used to cook quite happily - not my favourite thing, but five people were nourished with 2/3 meals a day for decades; and Sundays were a ritual day with big roast dinner, home-made crumble or pie, and home-made rolls (with cheeses, jams etc.) and a home-made sponge cake which we would eat round the fire in winter.

Now I can barely be bothered to make a sandwich - it all feels a complete chore. And now I am living on my own it all seems even more pointless to cook when I can fill up on a sandwich or a ready meal.... or biscuits, or crisps - or anything but cook really! I am getting worse by the day!

I can't stand cooking.
I get angry at even having to make a sandwich.

I don’t like cooking either, my husband cooks at the weekends which is when we have proper food.

I could happily live on fruit and sandwiches