What can you not eat?

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The things I can't eat and the reasons why, are quite complex.

gluten (in wheat, rye, barley and a few other places) and dairy
As per the gfcf diet.

foods with gluten-like proteins in them
i.e. oats, corn and soya. Oats and corn are quite closely genetically related to the glutenous foods, above. Also I'm slightly concerned about millet and rice, which are genetically related to those foods but to a lesser extent.

pre-processed food
because there's so many ingredients on the product lists chances are there'll be something that contains one of the banned foods, above.

foods high in fat or fleshy protein
since these give me mild IBS symptoms, which for various reasons I think is caused by gut dysbiosis. Basically these foods are feeding an overgrowth of 'bad bacteria'.
Crisps are the best example, they are high in oil and they give me wind and mild IBS symptoms
I'm avoiding all meat and only eat limited amounts of fish
I also limit my intake of nuts and oil

foods high in phenols
They can cause hyperactivity in autistics, so I've learned. Most of these foods seem to be fruits, e.g. apples, bananas, citrus fruits, and grapes. Also, tomatoes, and red peppers.

other common problem foods for autistics
as well as foods high in phenols, other problem foods can include eggs, aubergines and avocados. Thus I avoid these too for the time being.

sugar
I am NT about sugar. But I still don't want to eat too much of it, it's unhealthy. If I'm not careful my diet will lean too much towards sugar to make up for calories lost on foods I avoid. I'm also afraid of becoming a host to a candida infection!

eating the same food too much

This may seem like a lot. But it's easier to implement than it may seem, the trick is to concentrate on the foods you can eat. Make a list of these and stick to them. I currently have a list of about 50 foods, and these are easy to obtain and cook.

o ya forgot rice...brown or white- can't eat it makes me sick and comes out terribly =/

thanks for listing your lists/reasons/diets

going to continue to eat oatmeal though....seems the best thing in my diet right now.

Basically, it's this:

1) pork
2) fish
3) beans (was lamb, but the stores here don't have it on a regular enough basis)
4) turkey

...since proteins seem to most quickly "built up" and start causing a bad reaction. Since vegetables are more flexible and plentiful, I combine with above with at random (but never the same without 3 days between) with: salad, fried squash, snow peas, onions, carrots, brussel sprouts, bell peppers, celery -- pretty much any vegetable except corn. Artichoke hearts I can do a few times a month and be ok. And fruit is pretty flexible as well, though after eating watermelon all summer it looks like I'm reacting to that now, too. But by next year that will be long gone.

That's basically it. Once I started the meat rotation it became a lot easier to figure out what other foods were causing problems, since I wasn't feeling like crap constantly. Also, since going on it, I have some "reserve" built up so that I can occasionally break the pattern (like eat out at a restaurant) and remain ok.

Mushrooms
Cottage Cheese

Having certain types of food what you can and cannot eat is not an Aspie thing (I haven't even read any posts on this thread yet, but I'm certain that somebody has put ''it's an AS-related thing''.) Every NT I know all have something that they cannot eat, either because they don't like it or it doesn't agree with them - which is a normal human thing. Just thought you might want to know.

any food with texture like a mushroom

As a dad, I've always been concerned for my son's nutrition. He is very selective: won't drink milk, does not even like water, eats tons of goldfish (the cracker type , pork, meat. But he won't eat potatoes, rice, or almost anything else. Loves bacon! Should I be concerned, or just go with the flow? He does eat grapes and carrots from time to time. And loves Doritos.

Dislikes ABSOLUTELY ( will say I am allergic to ensure I never have to taste them):

Celery



Pineapple

dislikes with less passionate hatred:

Rice Pudding
Cooked Carrots (raw fine)
Brussel Sprouts
Alcohol, or anything fermented expect cheeses.
Chillies, but love curry..

HONESTLY allergic to:
Red food colouring, and high quantities of sugar. Used to be allergic to corn, especially "Cheezels".
And those smiley cereal things, but can eat now.

As a smaller child also hated Oranges, Broccoli (didn't we all?), Beetroot, Olives, Pickles plus much more. I actually love olives nowadays!!

Things I like but won't eat on ethical principal( due to factory farming):

Chicken
Pork

Allergic or adverse reactions to: oranges, white bread, full cream milk, anything with sweeteners.

Just don't like the taste of: rye bread, onions, capsicum, carrot juice.

This thread makes me hungry. I'm getting some mushroom, avocado and egg cravings. Better add some bacon to that.

Swords.

Vegetables, apples etc.

It's the texture.

I also just feel sick when I injest vegetables which have been cooked in a way that removes the texture. Maybe my body has gone too long without them and can't get used to them.

I can almost tolerate a few bits of a pepper on a pizza, the texture of peppers is only mildly irritating, but they still make me feel sick.

Even unnoticeable spinach on a sandwich makes me feel sick.

Also, meats which have been processed and have weird lumps left in the re-shaped animal pulp. I always pick fat and stuff off of normal fresh meat. Except bacon. The fat can be kind of weird on bacon but it doesn't taste right without it.

I disagree. I think it is an aspie thing to be very sensitive to textures and therefore a lot of foods can seem particularly disgusting to us. I have never met an NT to be as fussy with their eating habits as I am for example - they have their own food preferences but nowhere near to the same extent, or where they have to have their food set out a certain way on a plate as I do. As for things like food intolerances and allergies then I'd say that's a normal human thing.

I have Celiac's Disease, so no gluten/wheat...
I didn't know I had it for a long time (um, 22 years...) so there's significant damage, and other random allergies to top it off. So...

No gluten/wheat/barley, no lactose (so, most dairy or anything with dairy in it at all), no tree nuts, melons, avocados or bananas and I try to limit my corn intake to... eating actual, real corn... or popcorn...

I've also had a lot of trouble digesting chicken lately, so I've stopped that for awhile.

If you get creative and look online, there are a lot of things you can eat depending on what you can have.
You just have to... make your food all the time (yeah, it sucks, but eating delicious things is nice)

I have days where I can't bring myself to cook. Like today... spend the day eating jell-o cups, plain rice and raw carrots. Oh, well.


Edit: I can't tell if you mean what can I NOT eat, literally... or what I can't eat because I find it disgusting... hahah.

On the last note, I HATE ONIONS WITH A FIERY PASSION. Their horrible, crunchy, wet, spongy, sharp texture makes my stomach turn. I can still feel one in my mouth long after I've spit it out and brushed my teeth. TOMATO SAUCE WITH LONG SPICE BITS. I don't know what spice it is... it's thin and long and kind of seed-like. If it's in any food I eat, I quietly get it out of my mouth and stop eating for the rest of the day. It ruins everything and feels horrible. The same thing with fish bones. I can't eat the ends of pickles, with the hard round bit. Or the white parts of lettuce. If I'm eating a vegetable, it has to be completely raw, or cooked all the way so that every part is completely soft. In between makes me feel nauseous. I can only eat jell-o from snack cups, because when you make it from a box and let it set, it always gets that crusty film around the edges and if that touches my mouth I have to stop eating. Thinking about all of this makes me feel kind of sick. lmao

Last edited by Chama on 28 Oct 2010, 6:24 am, edited 1 time in total.

Try chewing more.

Ahh! I knew I must be doing something wrong. Always full of helpful advice, you are.

I know NTs who are fussy with their food, especially girls. My NT cousin, who is 20, is very fussy. She's so fussy that it's unbelievable. She doesn't like the red M&Ms - but I said, ''they taste the same!'' But she won't have it.
Also, my NT brother is a pain in the arse because he's stopped liking my favourite dinner, simply because it's ''too spicy''. Then when I suggested something else he said, ''not spicy enough''.
The only thing I really hate and cannot eat are parsnips. I hate the taste of them.

And not all Aspies like the food to be laid out in a certain way on the plate. I don't mind how it's laid out - AND throughout my life I've seen some VERY fussy NTs when it comes to serving! Once when I had my family round for a roast dinner I was chosen to pour the gravy, but one of them didn't want their gravy on their potatoes, and the other didn't want their gravy on their vegetables, and the other only wanted their gravy on their meat, and the other wanted mustard one side of the plate and gravy on the opposite side of the plate. And as for tea and coffee - I've never heard anything like it! At work we had to write a chart on the wall in the canteen saying who has what in their tea/coffee.