Eating the same foods all the time, aspie trait or not?

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when i go to restaraunts... i always get the same thing... well, ill have maybe one or two things i usually always get.

i eat a lot of diff things... but i'll go to a different restaraunt depending on what i wanna eat.

ppl at the restaurants i go to harldy ever give me a menu anymore lol

I have a three or four day run on something nearly every week but it usually runs out before I tire of it. This week it was a new kind of organic veggie pie I tried and I have ordered more; I don't think mine is due to AS, I think I just liked the first one so much, the next night I want it again and so on.

Yeah, I do this though I try to be a little bit more varied. For instance, right now I eat Special K Chocolatey Delight Cereal everyday for breakfast, Vegetable soup for lunch and then I eat something different for dinner because my boyfriend cooks.

When I go to restaurants I always order the same thing I ordered last time.

It was really bad when I was younger though. One summer I ate pizza everyday for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Strangely enough, I only weighed 115 lbs (I'm 5'7", medium body frame). Now I'd be happy to get down to 135 and I don't eat half as much as I used to. Ahh the joys of growing older.

I do this so much... at the moment it's Just Right cereal, hazlenut spread, and a certain brand of instant noodles, chicken-and-prawn flavour (not all together!). I'm not big on any fruit or veges, but persuade myself to eat lettuce and drink fruit juice to try and stay healthy. I ordered the same thing from the Uni canteen - small honey chicken and rice - every time I ate there for the entirity of my degree!

I ate nothing but pizza for two weeks. Had circumstance not made me eat something different, I'd be content eating pizza for another two weeks after that.

Yes.

Two years ago I had a routine of making choco-flan every friday

I like cereal for breakfast everyday

Yes I think it is an AS trait, its a routine, a restricted pattern.

What's the general consensus... are your select food preferences generally healthy stuff, or junk food?

I've seen a few references here to healthy stuff - like veges, fruit - whereas mine always tend to be bad stuff, like pasta with creamy sauce or deep fried hot chips. So then I've got food guilt on top of all my other hang-ups

My aspie sister has always eaten the same foods. Aspie me, on the other hand, likes a lot of different foods. However, I did drive everyone crazy for many years by not mixing my food. I would eat all of my peas, then my roll, then all of my fish, etc ... I don't know why this bothered other people. I don't know why I started doing it or why I stopped. I don't think it is an aspie thing though.

I tend to "stick" to the same types of food, too. That is, I don't eat exactly the same thing for weeks without trying something else. As a rule, I'll eat whatever I'm given. It's a habit I developed over time - my mother has an anorexia-like problem and used to ration my food along with her own, so I learned to eat everything she cooked and to be content with whatever occasional bit of candy or cookies she happened to bring. But, when it comes to choosing food myself, I usually go on buying the same things regularly for weeks, maybe months. Once I liked something, I feel a sort of need to have it every day. In restaurants, I usually try out some particular dish and then keep on ordering it every time I come, until the waiters know me and ask whether I want "the usual". If someone suggests that I try something new, I may do it and enjoy it, but I will still have that need to buy what I usually do.

The same goes for clothes. I end up wearing the same skirt or pants or sweater for several months at least, usually for a year or two. Partly it's because I can only afford that much clothing. But then I'm perfectly comfortable wearing the same things for long periods of time, and I know that I would still do it even if I had enough money. Changing clothes too often makes me uncomfortable. It's almost as if my old trusty clothing became part of me, like a second skin or something.

It's weird, really - in all other respects I'm anything but rigid, I can't organize a thing and my life is close to chaos.

As for healthy vs. junk food, I probably tend more towards the "healthy" side - my favorites are olives, garlic, cheeses (especially spiced mozarella, hard feta and some hard cheeses with blue mold), various fruit and berries, pasta, fresh seafood, smoked fish (especially eel and mackerel), mushrooms and some other things. But I love Lithuanian dishes with lots of potatoes and bacon, like potato dumplings with various fillings, potato pancakes or just sliced smoked or salted bacon; also, any type of bread - from wholemeal to sweet buns. Basically, I guess I prefer food that is filling and tastes, well, like food, not something barely describable.

Last edited by ixochiyo_yohuallan on 07 Apr 2007, 6:15 am, edited 1 time in total.

I always wondered about that....

Chicken & Brocolli Rice FTW!! !! !

this is one way where I am not aspie-like..
I enjoy a pretty wide variety of food.

When i was in my early 20's though, it was steamed mixed chinese vegetables or chinese vegetable soup...

I thought you liked poop

There are only about three different meals I will eat, mostly pizza and chips. My mum has to stock the freezer full of about ten of the same food every time she goes shopping. It's difficult sometimes though, especially when I go through a phase of eating the same thing every day and then the shop stops selling it

Makes sense to me. Right now I'm addicted to chewing gum.

I always feel like I'm going to choke on chewing gum... and then it makes me feel sick
People used to always chew chewing gum in college, I hate the sound of people chewing. That was probably one of the few things I liked about my high school: they banned chewing gum