I’m not autistic but I have eaten the same breakfast for the past 13 years.
Also, eating the same things, or very similiar, on a regular basis is really good if you want to gain/lose weight since all you need to do it add/remove things.
I guess I’m one of the few autistic people who doesn’t have food attachments. The only thing I decidedly dislike is sea urchin.
That sounds easily avoidable.
Shit I always thought I had a little 'tism… Yeah I’ve eaten pretty much the same meal plan every day for over a decade. Soup and Sandwiches! Can’t go wrong with a bowl of soup and a sandwich for dinner, nope nope!
Breakfast is Steelcut Oatmeal made with splenda, cinnamon, and a dash of salt. 2 cups of coffee, each with splenda, pinch of salt and cinnamon.
Lunch I don’t eat, just power through with caffeine.
Dinner is two open-face turkey sandwiches. Scirachi aoli, cheddar cheese, smoked turkey, turkey pepperoni, jalepenos, topped with a nice bed of crunchy lettuce. A can of high-protein soup, with some tobasco and (a lot of) extra beans thrown in, microwaved for 6 minutes, then pop in some Italian seasoned croutons, let them soak up the soup for like 15-20 min while you eat the sandwiches, turns that bad boy into a delicious bready stew. Add to the dinner a pound bag of baby carrots, and a big ass iceberg/cabbage salad with whatever dressing for a great big bolus of fiber.
For dessert, Get you a sugar-free package of pudding in your fav flavor (Banana Cream and Pistachio), mix it with 3 cups of cold fat-free milk, let that sit while you eat din-din, then pour some rice krispies over the pudding, and eat it layer by layer, adding rice krispies for mouth feel as you go.
Fucking delicious. I’ve eaten that everyday for around 15 years now? I’ve gotten better recently, and have started having pizza nights, where I replace the soup and sandwiches with a whole pizza, but yeah, 99.9% of the time, soup and sandwiches. Classic combo. The best combo.
That’s like…way to much food for me, but it sounds bomb as hell.
Try eating with your mouth instead of ass and you might want to try new things?
Also: how can just your ass be autistic? And hie do you know?
The perfection of my ass could only be crafted by autistic hyperfixation. This is known.
I don’t think I’m on the spectrum, but maybe?
Anyway, for the past four years or so, I’ve been eating nearly the same meals every day, and I’m fine with it. I know exactly what I’ll buy for the week’s groceries, and I waste zero food. My trip to the grocery store takes just over one hour every Sunday morning, including driving time. I take the same path through the store, and grab the same items off the shelves each time, and the store is practically empty at that time, so I just slow down to grab the item. However, on the rare occasion I decide to change an ingredient, I can spend a long time trying to decide on a replacement.
Last year, I wanted to stop using packaged picante sauce, which I used for eggs, and as a replacement for ranch salad dressing for about a year previous. The packaged has too much salt, also I’ve been reducing the processed foods I buy. First, I looked for one that had lower salt, and the few they had were too expensive. So, I decided to try to make my own. That meant I had to buy several ingredients I didn’t before. I did it for about six months, but really didn’t like it, and it was more work every Sunday after I got home from shopping. So, instead, I just dropped it altogether. That meant I dropped the salad with chicken, because I couldn’t find a suitable dressing replacement with low salt. So, now I’m down to my hot meal with chicken and vegetables all the time. I thought it would be rough having the hot meal during the summer, but I did it all last summer and it was fine. Also, it’s one less aisle I go down during shopping.
I don’t know if you or I are on the spectrum, but we’re in whatever club has people that like to explain eating habits in excruciating detail.
All those poor chickens :(
I know of an 18 year old boy who is autistic and eats nothing but chicken nuggets and potato waffles. His rigid diet has caused him health problems and it’s been very difficult for his parents. It’s sad to see.
Dude I used to know a guy in his 30s that ate this way his whole life. Breaded chicken + fried potatoes of some sort + vanilla ice cream. No idea how he’s doing now but he’s gotta be feeling the effects his 40s.
For my cousin it’s day old Caesar’s pizza, literally nothing else. For someone my SO grew up with, it was noodles with ketchup, also nothing else. It’s wrecked havoc on their bodies.
Any tips? You’re freaking me out with regards to my little dude.
I have a daughter on the spectrum. It took many hours each week and many weeks in a year of ABA (RBT, hopefully getting my acronyms right) therapy to get her to accept a variety of foods. Fast forward to a few years later, she’ll eat anything including spicy food (by her own choice). It was definitely a texture thing, as well as her wanting a constant she could reliably predict. As part of her therapy we always included something she liked alongside the things she didn’t. We were firm she had to try everything every time, even if she couldn’t finish.
You got this!
Don’t take no for an answer. What’s for dinner is what you get or you can go to bed hungry. My mom just didn’t put up with my bullshit and let me not eat my food if I didn’t want it but absolutely refused to let me have anything else until dinner was eaten. If I ate my dinner I could have whatever I wanted (in the house, which was pretty much all healthy food).
I have a daughter on the spectrum. It took many hours each week and many weeks in a year of ABA (RBT, hopefully getting my acronyms right) therapy to get her to accept a variety of foods. Fast forward to a few years later, she’ll eat anything including spicy food (by her own choice). It was definitely a texture thing, as well as her wanting a constant she could reliably predict. As part of her therapy we always included something she liked alongside the things she didn’t. We were firm she had to try everything every time, even if she couldn’t finish.
You got this!
My mom used this strategy. The problem was there was and still are a lot of foods I just straight don’t like. Not “I’d just rather have spaghetti-os” but, “I cannot stomach this because of the taste or texture or whatever”. She also was not a very good cook so even if it was something I liked usually I sometimes wouldn’t like it. This led to a lot of nights of us sitting at the table with me getting yelled at and not allowed to leave the table until my plate was cleared .
I’m willing to try this if I can introduce it gradually.
I’ve heard talk of this causing “disordered eating” but haven’t done the reading myself on that. Do you think it caused any negative outcomes for yourself?
I have a reduced appetite as an adult because of medical conditions, so it’s difficult to tell because I have a hard time eating anyway. I don’t have any food aversions and if I’m hungry will eat most anything. But like the other reply to my comment said, it resulted in a lot of unpleasant dinners. I was on a behavioral diet most of my childhood as well so that had a factor in it all too. I think having a standard, boring “second choice” might be a good idea, but also definitely just communicate about what they like and don’t like, children are capable of reason just not always encouraged into the ability.
Thanks for your honest feedback and sharing.
What’s a behavioural diet, just like what you said with “if you do this, then that”?
I had pretty serious behavioral issues as a kid, mom put me on an exclusion diet designed by a kind of woo-y Dr, but I do think it helped. I guess people have lots of food “sensitivities” that might be tied to childhood behavior? I didn’t eat gluten, corn, milk, potatoes, tomatoes, and a bunch of less significant things for 18 months, than was reintroduced to those things slowly via tincture for 6 months. As an adult I still don’t really know what he was doing because the diagnosis involved holding 2 electrodes like an e meter but it did seem to have noticeable benefits to my behavior.
Could they sneak vitamin stuff into his food/drink or does that only help so much?
I think they tried something like that but it didn’t work out. Very difficult situation sadly.
Luckily my wife has a rotation of safe foods, because even that’s a nightmare.
I have a less severe version of the same thing. ARFID. Turns out I’m not that crazy.
My diet is at least 30% sandwiches xd
I am pizza
You know, I want to get into sandwiches, but I always feel like I throw away half the stuff because I don’t eat it quickly enough, or because I run out.
Any tips?
You can freeze bread and defreeze it in the oven pretty quickly if it’s already pre-sliced.
I often combine meals, for example I buy salad and cucumber, so I make sandwiches & a salad. Next day I’ll make wraps using the salad and condiments fromthe sandwiches. I barely buy stuff just for one dish, I always have a second use in mind.
This is exactly what I do too. I’ll also sometimes buy a rotisserie chicken and use some for salad, then make soup the next day. I also buy pickles and put them on sandwiches as well since they can stay good in the fridge for longer than a cucumber
Butterbrot geht immer
Peanut butter and jam is my… jam :)
Me with Fazoli’s
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times
- Bruce Lee
If you make the same meal repeatedly you get really good at it.
I eat egg cups almost every day for breakfast. Line muffin tins with sliced ham, crack an egg into each one, add seasonings and toppings, back. Let them cool, store in the fridge, microwave for 30 seconds and add a splash of sauce to eat.
Protein smoothie for lunch. I’ve got it down to the point where I optimize what order the ingredients should go into the blender in so that they blend smoothly. Orange juice, protein powder, banana (optional), peanut butter, ice, peanut oil (optional).
I also love various kinds of meal prep for dinner. Doing things in bulk and in advance is usually more efficient for both time and money. And such deliberation usually leads to better nutrition too.
I also enjoy experiencing new flavors. I love seeing new restaurants pop up nearby, immigrants bringing flavors from their homeland I’ve never tasted before. But that’s an expensive (and often unhealthy) treat for special occasions.
Eating to live vs living to eat.
Making your favorite meal is not autistic, everyone goes back to the things they like.
(Watching the entirety of The Office 50 times might be autistic.)
Watching the entirety of The Office 50 times
This is my wife
The piano haunts my nightmares
Luckily she’s moved to B99 for a bit but we’ll see how long that lasts
I’ve literally made the same exact meal for breakfast and dinner every single day for the last four years straight. Lunch changed because of an external factor, but I’ve had the same meal for lunch every day for about six months now. The meme isn’t referring to making your favorite meal, it’s referring to making the only thing you eat for that meal, ever.
Mind sharing what you make? I’m intrigued.
What if it’s not my favourite meal?
In a row…
I watch The Longest Yard (2005) literally every day. Source: am autie.
I got the fries that will make you cry
I know what I like.
This is my aunt’s daughter’s cousin(my sister) with mango black bean paste on cinnamon raisin bagels. She’s been eating it every day for every meal since she became autistic at age 42. I told her it’s not healthy but she tells me to fuck off every time. We had her over for Christmas dinner and I stuffed the turkey full of bagels hoping she would actually eat but she just screamed at me that I was an inconsiderate dumb man. I’m not even a man so I don’t understand, does she know something I don’t? She was born 9 years before me so maybe she knows all of our family’s secrets and that’s why she only eats mango black bean paste bagels.
I’ve made it my life’s work to investigate this but I haven’t gotten anywhere, if anyone can help me discover the truth I’ll give you six cents and a pocket full of lint as compensation.
The truth is mango black bean paste bagels sounds fucking disgusting.
🫲 money please.
