How do you meal prep when your brain suddenly hates the food?

Question

I have abandoned meal prepping because one day, week or month i love a food and suddenly its the worst thing I've ever put in my mouth.

Has anyone figured out a way to overcome this?

One strategy I have embraced is getting many common fresh things in their frozen variant. So onions, garlic, ginger, broccoli, even mushrooms and bell peppers.

Being able to freeze or buy frozen things I don't have to defrost for hours and can put directly onto the fire or microwave helps.

I have very unlikely to eat frozen cooked food, don't know why. But I did cook a large vat of rice once after rice wheevils got in about 6kg. I then microwaved it and used it for fried rice.

Megan Mooney · Accepted Answer

Are you meal prepping for just you or you and others?

Because if there are others, I just take me out of the equation.

If it's just me, then I focus on "food is fuel" and figure out the easiest most reliable way to get nutrients in my body.

Which is to say - what takes the least spoons (metaphorical kind, not literal), and what causes the least amount of sensory ick (because for me hating food is usually sensory ick + takes too much energy to make + decision overload = why does food even have to exist???).

And I don't worry about variety or anything like that. Week of smoothies? That's fine. At least I am still getting nutrients.