Lost all motivation to cook meals at home

I haven't cooked a meal in 5+ years. I absolutely hate cooking. But it's possible to eat healthy and never cook. I have a phrase "if it doesn't happen in 180 seconds (excluding microwave time) it isn't gonna happen".

My suggestion: buy
some bags of mixed vegetables and put them in the freezer
cans of tuna, salmon (if you have the money), sardines (if you can tolerate them)
bread, freeze it
a toasted sandwich maker
apples, bananas and possibly other inexpensive fruit
tins of corn, cheese, tins of tomatoes for the toasted sandwiches
roasted almonds
peanuts (raw since salted will probably stimulate your appetite)
2 minute noodle packs

With this, you can eat a variety of healthy, inexpensive food. Add one item of food you enjoy each week.

Is it perhaps the weight gain that makes you not want to cook? Are you afraid of gaining more?

I've recently gotten reacquainted with my wok and am excited about stir frying. Sounds a little nutty but it's true. 😳

Maybe try a new cooking method with healthy ingredients.

What everyone else has said. I, too, tend to "not wanna" cook, and I know that for me it happens when I have a bajillion things to do and just. can't. face one more thing. I want to reach in and eat something, and call it good, with minimal cleanup and mess.

One thing that has seriously helped me (besides my ability to have convenience trump variety, and eat the same thing every day for a while), is my Instant Pot. I can make a casserole or stew or burrito bowl or pretty much anything in that, and can start it when I think about dinner, not as another chore in the morning as one would with a slow cooker. It also helps when it is hot and I just don't want to heat up the kitchen. Frankly, it has been a game changer for me.

Sometimes even the Instant Pot is Too Much. That's when I do what others have said; an easy protein with veggies (rotisserie chicken, tuna, canned chicken), or even pre-prepared frozen meals. If I know a time like that is coming and I have the energy, I cook ahead and freeze things. Just finished cooking and freezing quinoa in one-cup amounts (it is such a pain to rinse and rinse and RINSE it to make it edible without the petroleum distillate smell it has unrinsed) that I won't use it unless I already have it made or I have found a good pre-rinsed variety on sale.

I also keep cans of beans plus packaged grains in the cupboard. When life is just Too Much, I can microwave a quinoa / rice blend and dump beans on top -- rice and beans and a salad makes a complete protein. And yes, I buy salad greens in the expensive plastic containers, because I will let the lettuce or spring greens sit and rot if I have to wash and tear them. Yes, I have a first world problem!

alexabrown252 wrote: »

I've had the same story since I went to work and there's nothing I can do about it. I don't have enough time and energy to cook. When I wasn't working and taking care of the kids, of course, I was cooking. As soon as I go to work, someone else in the family cooks, but not me. To be honest, I don't want to cook, I don't want to stand at the stove anymore. But I love watching cooking shows. And recently I saw an ad for knives made of German steel on TV (you can visit website) and thought, maybe this will be the first step to success in resuming my cooking. I especially liked the knife with the shark on it. Well, I thought that buying new kitchen supplies might awaken my desire to cook. And maybe I will please my family with my culinary delights at least on the weekend.

I also love cooking shows. And I can't believe that I saw the master class of the Royal chef Alan Coxon in France. He published about 9 cookbooks and has been working for BBC for a long time. It was unforgettable.