I get the idea that people here do not eat well and healthy in general, prefering fast food and micro waveable ready foods…or just very simple quick dishes to prepare at home. Why is this so? Many tasty and quite simple dishes to prepare at home would not cost much at all. In my family we cook at home every day and mostly simple but tasty meals with fresh ingredients. I hate eating fast food or frozen food to microeave its just not good food. Is cooking at home for you a task which takes too much energy or drive? I had some issues like this when i was just diagnosed, on risperdal. and single. I hated to clean up after cooking. And i had low drive to cook. I often would eat pizza or kebab but since i worked i also ate plenty times in good restaurants. When i switched meds about 15 years ago it improved very much. I am actually a good creative cook but i needed more motivation and drive to be able to do it. I think also having my wife around helps me with motivation. I cook not everyday but maybe twice a week or on special occasion. I know it not.that often but i am not up for it more. I am lazy. My wife cooks or my sister in law or mother in law on the other times. I think cooking is a bit like showering for most people with sz. It takes us more effort to do it. Yet it would be beneficial to our well being and health if we would be up for it more.
I like to cook. But I live alone. Cooking for one isn’t nearly as much fun as for three/four people. And it sort of limits you in the ingredients you can use. I barely use cabbage for example. when eating alone, for that means I will be eating cabbage the whole week!
It is much easier for me to cook now that I’m married. I love cooking for other people, because they tell me how delicious my food is and it makes me happy. When I lived alone, it wasn’t really worth the effort. I mostly just stuck with prepackaged food.
I still use mostly frozen vegetables to cook with, because I don’t trust the fresh produce in my area during the winter. In the summer, we eat everything fresh.
I agree that living alone doesnt help. First like flybottle said, its different just to organise it when there is only large portions to buy, and also I agree with ninjastar, cooking and eating for yourself is not to be compared to doing that in company of loved ones or friends. Eating is a social thing, its so nice to sit around a table as a group and talk about this and that and also the cook is complimented on the food that was made if its good. I agree completely. I suppose I am married so long that I forgot what its like to live alone. I have been there though when I was a single man and I do remmeber feeling the same way.
Sometimes it is hard even to eat…
Thank you for sharing this point…it help me understand. Do you live by yourself?
I live with my parents and my grandma, sometimes I cook for everyone but I can’t do it every time. I try to bake some bread everyday though.
i might cook.
getting tired of canned soup. starting to taste like acid.
My provider is an excellent cook and soon after I came here she noted I had digestive issues and put me on a vegan diet. She taught me how to make my own soy milk which I do. I also help making and freezing my vegan burgers. Although she does the major amount of the cooking, I am learning. For me, cooking is like going swimming - once your in, you’re alright. It’s just getting started that I need encouragement. I used to cook when I lived alone, no problem. I think it was a fear of being attacked while cooking that messed me up about cooking around other people. Just a paranoid delusion but difficult to work with.
When my son is with me in the evening I almost always cook fresh organic healthy meals. For myself I often just didnt have the motivation to even do the shopping. Now im off meds and not so very depressed anymore I start to take care of myself better and make simple but healthy meals a lot of the time. I think it is very important for how I feel. Getting started and doing the dishes are still hard though.
I cook like I shower, as little as possible 
I have had trouble with cooking or the cleanup part probably more often. But it’s always easier with someone else around. I always talk to my husband while washing dishes and that makes it easier…
We eat pretty well considering. We haven’t had a fridge since Sept. of 2015. I am afraid we have resorted to supplementing our raw carrots with V-8 and Amy’s vegetable soups. We get a good amount of fruits and veggies but the variety isn’t there. It’s hard without a fridge. Not surprisingly, we do eat out a lot but we are pretty good about ordering salads and the like. Our blood tests say we’re still healthy and we’re both healthy weights.
We can afford a fridge but we need to convert a chest freezer so our small solar power system can handle the power draw and we have work to do on the power system, too. I just talked to the solar lady. We ought to have a fridge in the next month or so. Then we can go back to real meals.
Yes, cooking is a drag like showering. But, now that I live in an assisted living facility, I don’t have to worry about things like cooking or cleaning my apartment. Makes it nice. I still have to make myself shower though.
I don’t mind cooking for my boyfriend but as soon as there’s a ton of dishes or a messy kitchen I get some mental block that takes away my motivation to clean or cook even if I only have to wash a few frying pans out of the sink. It’s frustrating.
I wish I was into cooking but I’m not. It seems like the perfect avocation but it just seems like more trouble than it’s worth to me.
i can’t focus enough to cook, its hard for me to cook meals. last thing i cooked was a frozen hamburger patty.
Maybe I will have Breaky in the shower