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.
Find what you like and stick with it
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undeffeined@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
eclipse7@feddit.nu 9 hours ago
My diet is at least 30% sandwiches xd
Soulphite@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
I am pizza
affenlehrer@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Butterbrot geht immer
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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?
Lupus108@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
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.
etherphon@piefed.world 6 hours ago
Peanut butter and jam is my.. jam :)
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 8 hours ago
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.
jade52@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
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.
plm00@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
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.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
Any tips? You’re freaking me out with regards to my little dude.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Could they sneak vitamin stuff into his food/drink or does that only help so much?
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 7 hours ago
I think they tried something like that but it didn’t work out. Very difficult situation sadly.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
I have a less severe version of the same thing. ARFID. Turns out I’m not that crazy.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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.
varyingExpertise@feddit.org 43 minutes ago
That sounds easily avoidable.
stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Try eating with your mouth instead of ass and you might want to try nee things?
Impound4017@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
The perfection of my ass could only be crafted by autistic hyperfixation. This is known.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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 it 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.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That’s like…way to much food for me, but it sounds bomb as hell.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
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.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
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.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
All those poor chickens :(
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
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.)
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
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.
deepfriedchril@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Mind sharing what you make? I’m intrigued.
EonNShadow@pawb.social 4 hours ago
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
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
What if it’s not my favourite meal?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 9 hours ago
In a row…
paultimate14@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
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.
MacaqueAndCheese@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
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.
Soulphite@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
The truth is mango black bean paste bagels sounds fucking disgusting.
🫲 money please.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
I know what I like.
Slovene@feddit.nl 8 hours ago
skiguy0123@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Astrius@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Me with Fazoli’s
lena@gregtech.eu 7 hours ago
sploder@lemmy.world 34 minutes ago
Lately it’s been sourdough + pesto + tomato and mozz sandwich toasted up and cut in half, plenty of salt and pep.