Yep this is so me too. I used to love cooking, creating awesome meals. The kitchen used to be central to our lives. Then our children who werent fussy in the beginning became fussy and then the yummy meals went out the window in favour of stuff that they would eat, plainer more boring things.
In the last 6months, I have been changing the way we eat. I dont give options anymore. If they dont eat, then thats fine with me. I am making a lot of stirfries, a lot of salads. They know we expect them to try everything on their plate. If they dont like it then fine, but they know I dont have options anymore. I except that they dont like chilli and other spices, and thats fine, but what they dont know is I have alwasy put it in, just little amounts so they dont know the difference.
My girls are still fussy eaters, but they are getting better.
Its getting slightly better, but I still have a long way to go. The one big thing that we have done to help get our groove back in the kitchen is one night of the week the girls get what they want for dinner, they eat early and once they are in bed, dh and I have our own date night, with real adult food, we cook together, and make things that are adult rated lol.
So happy Im not alone. And does this message make any sense at all?