Does this ring true with anyone else out there? I used to love cooking, I liked finding new recipes, testing them out on my family, hosting dinner parties with friends, grocery shopping…all of it! And then COVID and the subsequent lockdowns came…all of a sudden I was fixing 3-meals a day for 4 or 5 people and it felt like it never ended.
You might be saying, why didn’t I pass some of the cooking on to some of the aforementioned people, and in retrospect, that would have been a good idea…but for whatever reason, I did not. Now, a year later I don’t want to cook at all. The weird thing is I don’t want to get food either, be it take-out, fast food, pizza, you name it. What I would like is to have a personal chef who prepares us healthy, local, delicious and diverse meals! Obviously, this is not happening anytime soon, at least not in my world!
So what’s the answer? Every problem must have a solution, right?! That’s where you come in…do you have a similar experience to this? Or if you still LOVE cooking, can you share your motivation with me and others? To join this little experiment, post a picture or a recipe on Instagram or Facebook, be sure to tag us and use the hashtag #mrcookinginspiration. Want to take it a step further? Email us a favorite recipe to cook and we’ll test these, pick our favorites, and feature them in our Thursday Recipe emails!
Aprons, on, cameras ready, let’s start cooking!
Dear Mica,
Hope you are having a great week. Thank you so much for this post, I absolutely agree with you. The lockdown has made me dislike cooking and hate going grocery shopping. I don’t want to have a to stand in line for more than an hour after a 9 -10 hour day to get grocery then go home to cook. Take-out is also out of the question since I’ve always enjoyed cooking at home. I thought I was the only one feeling this way. A personal chef is what I dream of as well to cook healthy meals for me when I get home from work.
Unfortunately I’m still not motivated to cook unless I go visit my sister and she cooks or we cook together which isn’t too often. We place our orders together when she orders from your website and I pick it up from her house.