autism and food

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I'm pretty happy with whatever's on my plate! I had a weird stomach problem last year that meant I couldn't eat for 2 weeks but other then that I've had no eating problems. I have a tough stomach too so I've never had food poisoning or puked from dodgy food etc!

The only food I don't like is nuts, bananas and liquorice!

Intolerant to lactose allergic to red 4 and Cherries.

Acraid to buy bannanas because of wandering spiders from brazil and well i barely eat them because of consistency. I love crunchy food and hate oranve M&Ms because i can taste the dyes and orange is gross.

I cannot eat grapefruit or anything with grapefruit in it because it stops my medication from working. I always look at the ingredients of certain drinks to see if there are no grapefruit in it.

I can eat most vegetables, but I cannot eat onions, as I am very sensitive to how they taste.

I used to be extremely fussy when young, but probably, most of it, due to eat inappropriate food. By now, I've been preparing my own food,, a very wealthy one. I scarcely eat meat.

taste is not really important to me, what really matters is the consistency of the food.

Consistency is much more important than taste to me except i can taste food dyes and some of them are repulsive.

Texture is the most difficult aspect of food for me. I like food with strong flavours. But as soon as there is an odd texture in my food I feel sick. Fat in meat is a big one. The texture of onion in cooked foods. Even the slightest bit of solid in the centre of a banana. Terrible. I also don't like any foods with the consistency of jelly.

I love crunchy food. It is a great sensory experience for me.

I used to be very picky with food, and to an extent I still am. I have always hated meat and fish. I also have a sensory aversion to certain meats like sausages and nearly all fish - if I smell them some reflex is activated where I start to gag and puke.

So I am a vegetarian, even though I can't eat certain kinds of vegetables. Tomatoes I can only have in a sauce and I can`t stand celery, cucumber and white iceberg lettuce: they are all too juicy and crunchy. Despite this I still eat very healthy...I drink smoothies and eat tons of fruit, dark coloured veggies (lots of carrots, spinach, yams, and broccoli) and yogurt as well as lots of soy products, beans, lentils and nuts for protein.

I'm a very very pickey eater in meny ways due to texture and taste sensory issues. I also can't eat cross-contaminated food eg. meat gravy touching my bread or deviant food like as an example hot dogs on a hamburger bun(I know thats strange however I will disasemble and eat he ingredents seperately if given this or simular). I have always disliked things like Steak becouse of dyspraxic issues with cutting and chewing it, the taste is fine though.

I'm also a really picky eater and eat basically the same things everyday , rotating 2 or 3 dinners, unless I'm out and I'm picky about what I'll eat when I'm out too.

huh, I also can;'t stand those things. I do like tomatoes though.

Same, same reasons. I have to have my tomatoes diced, or there's still just waay too much juice.

I'm similar, I don't have a good sense of taste so am attracted to certain types of really strong flavours and am really obsessed with certain textures. I like really sour things and as a child I used to eat things like citric acid out of the pack, lemons, I would drink vinegar out of the bottle etc. I need really strong textures if that makes any sense at all eg really chewy, crunchy, very very thick pastes etc. I'm really bad with watery, mushy or slimey...I hate bananas that are ripe, as a child I'd only eat them if they were slightly green, I hate pears as they are like wool. I hated milk in my cereal as a child and would put as little as possible in the cereal. Then I'd eat it really fast so it didn't have time to go at all soggy.

Another weird thing I have with food is that the smell and taste of cold cuts (lunch meats) and canned tuna and salmon make me physically ill. There must be some sort of preservative in them or something that bothers me because cooked salmon or turkey are fine (I like them if prepared a certain way). I used to throw away my school lunches as a kid when I smelled the cold cuts and I still can't stand them.

Other things I can't eat and if I eat by mistake I feel sick are shredded coconut, dried fruits (including raisins) and peanut butter.

I also tend to live eating such is not good because I no longer have a thyroid and despite my thyroid meds, walking 5 miles a day and mostly veggies and noodles diet I put on wieght with out trying but for me I think I love the oral stimulation of eating. Textures te pictures and favors and scent all in one!

I'm very similar. I also don't like cheese, milk or eggs.
And I'd like to be vegetarian but I live in a meat-eating family and they're controlling of what I eat and don't approve of vegetarianism at all.
I have the same issues with vegetables, although the difference being, I like iceberg lettuce and I don't like onions and garlic, raw but if they are finely minced or as powder, than I actually like the flavor they give.

All in all, I was always a picky-eater and still am. But I've expaneded my food-horizons to more vegetables, legumes and fruits than ever before. People still look at me like I'm weird for my eating habits and I always get mistaken for being vegetarian or vegan (even from vegetarians/vegans themselves) and I would like to, but technically I'm not.

I love food, but I'm very ritualistic in what I eat. I love carbs and meats. I don't eat that many fruits or vegetables. When I was little I didn't eat ANY veggies at all. Now I eat some vegetables. The reason why I don't eat a whole lot of fruits or veggies is because I don't like the taste or texture of them.