For those who are no longer “in the mood to eat”; The key is to do the dishes as you cook. It’s not hard, fill the sink with soapy water, as you stand there and prepare wash what is no longer needed. As soon as the food is finished, dish up and immediately sit at the table with your already set place and enjoy. Make sure you do the dishes before watching TV or moving on to other projects, while doing so store leftovers.
My kids do this same thing, NOTHING TO EAT. BS, eat the leftovers. I pressure all, including the wife to do no more cooking until last nights supper is consumed. Why waste food? My parents would cuff me or box my ears if I complained about leftovers, and rightly so.
Exactly! I can’t sit down until the dishes are mostly done.
I don’t like to get up after my meal and start scrubbing pots.
If wake and find dirty dishes I will get ticked because I don’t go to bed with unwashed dishes in my kitchen,
I HATE waking in the morning and seeing dirty dishes, bad way to start a day.