With the average person stuck in a rut eating the same six meals on repeat, it’s no wonder my clients tell me they’re bored of eating. 

To help, I’m keen to encourage all those I work with to take a few easy steps towards bringing the joy back to cooking and eating. 

I’ve talked before about one easy way to add variety being to choose a new fruit and vegetable to add to your shopping basket each week. 

One other thing you can do is to try a new meal once a week, once a fortnight or once a month, depending on what is achievable. If you enjoy it, add it to your repertoire of go-to meals. Slowly but surely those same six meals on repeat will increase to 7, 8 and more reducing the risk of boredom. 

But cooking a new recipe can be daunting and slow so, if you are going to try something new, make sure you have the time to do so. There’s no point trying something new when you’re finishing work late or running the mum taxi service. Cooking a dish for the first time can take two or three times longer than the time it states in the recipe.

The other thing to do is to spend a little time in advance familiarising yourself with the recipe. Read it through a few times, checking that you understand the processes and hopefully committing some of it to memory so that you’re not constantly to-ing and fro-ing between your recipe and your pan.