Why meals slip first
Meals are usually the earliest thing to go. Cooking takes standing, lifting, chopping and cleaning, and doing all of it for one person feels like a lot of effort for a small reward. Toast and cereal fill in, then start covering most of the day.
Families often discover the problem in the refrigerator: expired food, unopened groceries, three of the same item bought twice. It is rarely a lack of appetite — it is that the whole chain from store to plate has become too much.
