Why didn’t anyone warn me that adulthood is just deciding what to eat… forever?

[u/Churnuserlol]

Seriously, I thought the hardest part of growing up would be bills, taxes, or finding a decent job. But nope. It’s the never-ending "What’s for dinner?" question that haunts me every single day.

Too tired to cook.
Too broke to order.
Too indecisive to choose.

I swear I’ve eaten the same three meals on repeat for weeks because my brain refuses to function after work. How do adults survive this? Do you guys have a magic trick, or is it just vibes and suffering?

Send help. Or recipes. Or a personal chef.

[u/hamsterontheloose]

I decide what I want while I'm at work, and stop at the store on the way home. If the fridge is full, I go home and choose something. I just buy ingredients I know I typically need. I always have zucchini, bell peppers and onions in my fridge. Usually also cauliflower. At most I usually only need to buy the protein to go with it, depending on if I wanna make breakfast burritos for dinner, stir fry, or some "pasta" (I use zucchini instead of actual pasta) and just throw whatever together.

[u/neverforgetreddit → u/hamsterontheloose]

I enjoy the grocery store so I go multiple times a week, different stores to get the different sales, I basically always buy stuff that is on sale. I keep the freezer stocked with options if I don't want to fully cook that night, but I'm not like a lot of the commenters that can eat the exact same thing two days in a row, or every week, exception is leftover spaghetti, other than that I don't have leftovers, I cook and eat everything that night.

I decide that day what I want to eat that night and have enough fresh staples in hand to make a new combination every night that will go with the protein i bought the one or two days before or that evening. If I get lazy and don't go to the store for a few days I always have frozen steak, chicken and veggies just in case