It depends on whether it is breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

Unfortunately, I like too many things, and so I don't find myself thinking that nothing sounds good. If I did, it would be easier to eat less, I think.

French fries!

For me, it's either sick (heaven forfend, pandemic precautions have been working for colds, too) or bored. Good cure for bored is to buy something new to try cooking, or just order in. For sick, spicy soup or pasta, really hot (temperature), or tater tots (a big favorite when I was four, but only liked now when made from frozen, pre-fried and salty (i.e., boughten), and heated to crunchy dry on the outside and fluffy on the inside. Only eaten when really feeling awful but hungry.)

I don't understand the question.... I can always think of *something* that sounds good. :O)

Same here 😄

I have to be ill or depressed to lose my appetite.

I do sometimes want something but don't have the time or inclination to cook, but that's a different topic I think...

Homemade chicken broth with garlic and lemon juice or pastina pasta with milk and butter.

Candy bars.

I usually want ethnic food from a restaurant when nothing I've been making sounds good.

Why i have a variety of homemade stocks and broths in pints and half pints. In the freezer with some containers of grains and beans. Chili, beef stew, chicken in broth, a roasted veg/tomato soup. Choices when we have a clean kitchen and not feeling like making a mess. A bag of mini dumplings, aka potstickers. We usually agree on what sounds good presenting a few choices.

I like most options so i give DH a choice.

I usually offer to make a cast iron frittata with a crisper full of veg or just eggs, scrambled or a omelet.

I recently made a big Dashi broth with 4 pints in the freezer for miso/veg noodle bowls for more options.

Having a full pantry of onions, garlic, shallots, various potatoes, and a full crisper drawer of vegetable choices...celery, leeks, ginger, carrots, fennel, beets, squashes,--summer/winter, brussels, greens. Freezer garden harvest...tomatoes, corn.

Every few months i make a cheese/charcuterie plate...smoked salmon, proscuitto, salami, paté, etc...and we snack. No need for a sit-down meal.

Cinnamon toast.

Toast here too. And pizza. And chicken or some other soup.

Often when I don't feel like cooking I make nachos or pita with hummus and spinach artichoke dip, both store bought. I like omelettes but stink at making them, but scrambled eggs with any ol kind of mix in is good too.

Grilled cheese (cheddar) on toast seems to work for me.

Soup out of the freezer! Of course that means going across the street to buy french bread!

When I feel like that I don’t want to fuss with cooking. Avocado toast, cheese and crackers, chips and salsa, a tortilla w/beans, fish sticks or chicken nuggets. But a bagged salad is also good to get some greens with tuna or chicken on top.

For the time when the funky "nothing sounds good" - I go for sour. Pickles, sauerkraut, grapefruit, rhubarb, kim-chi. I think then my taste buds will wake up and anything after that is appealing.

If nothing sounds good then that's exactly what I eat. I'd have to burn through a lot of reserves before I die of starvation!

Poached eggs on buttered toast

Calzone.

ETA: If I'm too tired too eat and don't feel like being bothered (which is often the case after a long day at work), I'll just have a salad or leftover vegetables and call it an evening. I usually have a clamshell of greens or leftovers from a large salad I already made to grab from.

If nothing sounds good then I take that to mean that I'm not really hungry, so I don't eat anything. As FOAS says, it'd take a long time to burn through my reserves, LOL.

I really like to cook for other people, but left to my own devices I often default to eggs, toast, oatmeal or cold cereal. Sometimes I'll open a jar of home canned soup or just eat a jar of the many vegetables I have canned. Even if something sounds good, I'm probably not going to do a whole lot of cooking for myself.

Annie

Not my issue, ever; but if the issue is that I’m feeling really lazy, then cereal. Or an apple and peanut butter. Or a simple quesadilla. If it’s that I am just not hungry, i just don‘t eat!

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Some folks have a problem with no appetite, they need the calories. Not me. But my dad has that problem. However, the solution to having no appetite is to eat a little something. An "appetizer" because that is what it is for. I try to get him to just start with a few crackers spread with peanut butter . . . or a piece of cheese or a dab of chicken salad. For health, try to do something with whole grains and not a lot of sugar. Cereal is great too. That's why we almost always have oatmeal of one type or another ready to go.

I happen to like brown rice cakes with nut butter and some fruit or home made jam on top. That's a "gluten free" alternative to crackers. I actually have the opposite problem, I need to find ways to tamp down my appetite . . . I have to assiduously avoid appetizing foods . . .

When I need to eat "something" but I just do NOT want to cook, it's likely to be an egg. Hard boiled, fried, or made into two halves of deviled eggs.

Rob reminded me. I always have some grab and go things, which helps with the "ingredients" issue. There are almost always hard eggs (steamed, not boiled, but same diff other than the name "boiled" being inaccurate), There is also some kind of cured sliced meat or jerky, sliced cheese, whole fresh fruit, sometimes blanched asparagus or green beans, little tomatoes, berries, sometimes a good from the fridge leftover...plus bread, crackers, cookies... So if it's just a food now thing, there are snacks aplenty, and if none of them suit, it probably means I'm more thirsty than hungry. It's the not feeling like cooking that gets to me, and ususally gets solved with a more interesting cuisine from out.

I am quickly coming around to a 'bloody mary'; drink and snack at the same time. ^_^

Seagrass, I LOVE the cartoon.

I rarely feel this way but last night was one. I pulled-out a little pot of Panera's Cheddar Broccoli soup from the freezer and a piece of their French bagette and that was supper. hurrumph! (And some days I feel just like that!)

I make brown rice is large batches ane freeze in 1 cup portions. Abowl of microwaved rice with some soy, a bit of butter and black pepper always works for me.