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Dinner Blahs

April 8th, 2020 at 06:23 am

I've been getting so bored with my food. It's mostly because I don't feel like putting the effort in. We've been eating a rotation of about 4 different meals and I really need to snap out of this and get some variety back into our diets. I have the food, just not the usual inventiveness or energy to look through all my recipes. I'm wondering if this is just a sort of quarantine depression? I mean it's not full blown, but it is slightly worse than seasonal. I usually delight in cooking.

But maybe it is also that I am so tired of the limitations on my daughter's food. I don't want to be making two different meals so I've kind of been avoiding that type of food that she can't or won't eat. Tonight for dinner we had pancakes and ham, but her pancakes had to be gluten free, so while it wasn't making two different meals, we did have to make the gluten free ones first so we could use the griddle without a wash in between.

I think I will just have to buck up and do it or make her a bunch of freezer meals and us some of the foods she can't eat, like fajitas and tacos and jerk chicken.

I really shouldn't be complaining right now because we have food and we have an income and it's not like in the old days when women had to cook 3 meals a day. I do have some help from my son and sometimes my husband and I only need to make dinner, not lunches or breakfasts. I miss takeout and I miss the store's deli department more than I should. We are all losing weight though without those things.

DS had a telemedicine appointment today about a new medication. I sat in on it with him at his request. It was so nice to see a new face! He is the doctor for the whole family and he asked after all of our health at the end of the appointment and whether we were taking our vitamins A, C, D, and E, which we are. He also asked me about how often I was using the nebulizer even though it wasn't my appointment.

Tomorrow I am going to try to get out in the garden, weather permitting. I haven't been outside since Thursday and that is probably contributing to my closed in feelings.

I am debating on whether or not to cancel our rescheduled vacation that is mid-May. We are trying to cancel our gym membership, but their voicemail is full and so far no response to email. They charged us for April even though they won't be open at all during April. I know it is an autopay, but they should have stopped those when they know darn well they won't be open the whole month. We are not on a contract. I might end up disputing it if we can't get through to them.

5 Responses to “Dinner Blahs”

  1. LivingAlmostLarge Says:
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    What are some gluten free meals? Pasta that is gluten free? Most meat and veggies are fine just the starch is different right?

  2. mumof2 Says:
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    Can your daughter not make her own meals??...there is a lot of gluten free things out there and loads of recipes online so take a look and change things up a bit...might be fun for you of you to do together...menu plan together and get everyone else to help....but yes get outside even if its just to walk in the back yard...everyone needs fresh air...good luck my daughter and I have a gluten intolerance I know how expensive it can get but things have changed in the last 8 years

  3. Creditcardfree Says:
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    LR, I feel similar to you. Youngest daughter home is affecting how I cook and I am getting a bit tired of it too. Our situation is not health related. I am shifting more towards what I want to eat the majority of the time, and letting her make her preferred food. Not ideal, but it's better than the emotional baggage that comes from compromising my health.

  4. CB in the City Says:
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    I am finding excitement in meal prep by analyzing my food stores daily and making meals that stretch. I do understand the frustrations of having to prepare separate meals for different people; that must be hard.

  5. Lucky Robin Says:
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    No, DD cannot make her own meals at this point. She is too severely disabled from the six diseases she has. She has to walk with a walker now and she can't stand for long. One of the discs in her back is thinning and causing tremendous pain on top of all the other things and she has difficulty holding things without dropping them.

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