Don't like the dishes I cooked!

They say its just a natural thing for a person not feel hunger if she is the one cooking or who cooked the food. As for me, I haven't experienced much of it because whenever I cook, I definitely like to eat that food that's why I prepare it.

I think that is normal, when you cook you have to exert energy and time into the food and it makes the food pale in comparison to when you can sit down and enjoy a meal with little to no preparation. On the other hand some love to eat the food they prepared, but everyone is different and unique. I prefer my own mac n cheese to the way my mother in law fixes it, but I still like to eat her cooking because she's a much better cook then me.

Hey hey hey zearah, Yep when I cook I am not so hungry as when somebody else cooks. Maybe it is the smell of the food suppressing our hunger.

I wish! I like to eat no matter who the cook is.

Yes. I'm like that too. Whenever I cook I don't feel like eating the food I cook. It seems that all the aroma of the food had made me feel full already. eventhough i can see my family loving the food i cooked i still won't even taste it.

Yes, absolutly. I always refuse to make pancakes because I want to eat them, not make them. If I do make them I'll be high on pancake smell and tired. And when I do eat after, I'm so full I don't want to move and I'll take a nap to burn off the calories in my sleep. I think I need to exercise more.

that is normal.. we usually 'lose' our hunger while we cook.. probably from all the smells and tasting of the food.. so, i dont think it is because you dont appreciate your own cooking... but usually, when i am cooking something which i myself look forward to eating.. i'll eat more than the rest of the family..

Not really. I usually love the dishes I cook, if I didn't I wouldn't cook them. They only time I might not eat is if I ahve been snacking on the food all during prerparation fo something.

I agree with slitereturn above with the response. Another thing to remember is imagine working in a restaurant or bakery where the smell of food starts to smell like too much lard. I believe this triggers the brain in not wanting it so much anymore.

It was funny to read this discussion, because I am the same. What an intersting phenomena! I think when I do the cooking I must get full on the aromas! Perhaps this could be a new diet plan. Scented sticks that smell like different dishes. Just sniff away until you aren't hungry anymore, LOL!