Who else is cooking fatigued?

I am still hanging in there, but, certainly not as enthusiastic as I was at the beginning. I AM getting kind of tired of eating. I do intermittent fasting most days, but, even so, I am not used to eating so many full meals. And, in our normal lives we don’t eat much dessert. But, there has been a lot of that, too.
I will be lucky to get out of this 10lbs heavier. :-(

Separate everything into little packages.

My aunt wanted anything with a cream sauce, no onions or garlic
Brother in law didn’t want onions or garlic either.
Sister in law wanted root beer out of a glass bottle.
So maybe have steamed chicken in the freezer and food not in cans might work for your husband?

Dh and I used to eat out Sundays after church and occasionally on Friday Or Saturday night. I’m cooking about the same as always.

However, it is more time consuming and stressful to consider what meals I can make with what I have on hand and trying to use fresh things before they go bad and then move into other ingredients before needing to shop again...

I am everything fatigued.

Me. It's just me and my son. Hes laid off now but worked at a hotel evening shift. They provide dinner for their workers so I just cooked 2 nights a week. Now its 7 nights. I don't do breakfast or lunch. He's on his own for those.

Yes. I am so exhausted. Having both Passover and Easter dinners to prepare this week has put me over the edge.  

The veggie sides are the hardest because the past two grocery episodes - 1 delivery and 1 curbside - involved having NONE of my veggies provided - frozen or fresh. I will go out shopping tomorrow for more salads. 

The anxiety about shopping just makes it all worse. 

Yes, seriously!

I'm not even the only one cooking, but with all of us home 24/7, food is being eaten at a massive rate.

I'm very, very tired of the "cook, handwash pots & pans, then dishes & utensils, put everything away,  then repeat in a few hours" cycle.

I don't enjoy cooking in the best of times, so nothing new there. What I'm finding is that we are craving food we rarely, if ever, eat. The fridge and pantry are fully stocked, but I've been jonesing for tater tots which we might have once a year. Now, no tater tots to be found in any store!

cheater easter dinner coming right up today!!

-cook from frozen already stuffed turkey breast
-home made mashed potatoes i froze recently
-steamed veggies
-salad from a bag
-packets of turkey gravy
-extra box of stovetop stuffing (DS loves stuffing)

yes, i too am over cooking. kids go to their dad's tomorrow.  hoping there is enough turkey left for hot turkey sandwich for me tomorrow.... so *no* cooking required.  

It’s not the planning or cooking, it’s the constant amount of dishes that need to be washed after and no one volunteers to help!

Shopping
Putting away
Preparing
Cooking
Eating
Clean up

I want to liquify and freeze my food for the next month. Like SlimFast but with meat and vegetables and gravy aka stew. I am just sick of it all.

Me too. I try to cook LOTS at a time (I love my slow cooker so much) and freeze down the leftovers, so that if I really don't feel like cooking, we always have something we can pop in the microwave and have quickly.

We haven't done anything special for Easter meals except a Simnel cake. We didn't even have any Easter eggs until I delivered a card to elderly friends round the corner and found a bag hanging on their door handle with a chocolate egg in it for us.

I’m tired.

I’m cooking every night at least plus doing food prep so Mom and DH can feed themselves during the day. Because of DH’s kidney issues, my menus are very restricted. Add in that he’s an ungrateful asshole when it comes to my cooking efforts, and it’s hard to get excited about cooking every night.

My mom is the saving grace to all this. She was visiting when everything went to hell, and we were able to convince her to stay. she insists on doing all the dishes and laundry and she’ll cook breakfast some mornings. She’s pretty much always willing to try something new, if I want to cook it. As long as she doesn’t have to meal plan or cook anything other than bacon and eggs, she’s happy.

Three weeks ago, just after DH realized he couldn’t continue to go out everyday to pick up his breakfast and lunch, he had a bit of a breakdown. He got really nasty on several occasions when I didn’t get up and make his food for him. 

Did I mention that I am working 40 hours a week minimum? I’ve always worked from home, so I’m still working. DH won’t actually start his next assignment, which will be remote, until May 1. so he’s just sitting on his ass.

We have as kidney safe lunch foods as I can provide, but DH won’t come downstairs and make himself a sandwich but once a day. Then he whines because he only eats once before supper!  He refused to microwave the meals I made for him, saying he didn’t know how and wanted me to do it and bring it to him. that didn’t happen.

Last week my head hurt with the sinus pressure headaches I get every spring when the pollen falls and the barometric changes. I went 3 days before I finally gave in to the pain and got off work early. I just couldn’t stomach cooking, so, knowing what a can of worms I was opening, I asked DH to go get pickup, the first time since starting quarantine. Sure enough, the next morning he started in that he should be able to go out and get breakfast and lunch everyday. So, had to fight with him to justify why he shouldn’t go out every day. I finally ended it by telling him I wouldn’t agree to him getting his normal money out when he had the opportunity to eat at home food that had already been purchased for him at his request.

Yeah, I’m tired. The physical effort of cooking is nothing compared to the mental stress of dealing with someone who os miserable and is taking it out on me.

Marcy