food dysfunction

[tielan]

Having major exec dysfunction around food lately

Eating meals - well, prepping them - is a horrendously big thing atm. I'll put off cooking for ages, and then stare at the fridge and the things in it and go "there's nothing to eat, I don't feel like anything".

I do have some instant or quick meals in the freezer. Dumplings. Soup and bread. Vegie lasagne. I can heat them up, no problem. But IDK, I'm just...not enthused. Hungry yes, and knowing I need something, but just...not enthused. And the prospect of having to do all the steps to get the food out? Feels like too much.

I'll do other things around the house, no problem - cleaning, gardening, work, etc. I'll go to the gym in the morning, go shopping to buy food (bananas and mandarins) But food? I'm just...struggling if it's not set down right in front of me ready to eat...

I was on the verge of having cereal for lunch today, and then I discovered the milk was off. And I can't have dry cereal. I cannot even.

There are lots of awesome takeaways around, but that requires effort. And choosing. And ARGH.

I guess I'll go the banana and mandarins for lunch. But I'm going to have to make a decision about dinner and I'm not entirely sure I can.

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[summerstorm]

I'm having a hard time with this as well, though I'm not sure how much of it is exec dysfunction and how much is just circumstance -- the fact that I'm the only person who can go grocery shopping for me and the heat, both when cooking and when going outside, are really doing a number on my already questionable eating schedule. I managed to thaw out some veal steak last night and cook it in large part because I could just have leftover cauliflower with it and not have to do anything else. (Also found out veal steak tastes nothing like normal steak, good to know for the future.) There have been so many days where I couldn't commit to anything and just ended up making myself a sandwich.

[tielan]

See, I couldn't even manage to make a sandwich. Not to mention that we don't really have sandwich fixings in the fridge right now due to it being winter.

For me, the dysfunction is connected with circumstance. At least, I think it is. Solitude is not agreeing with me.