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

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i am sooooooo picky. i dont eat much variety...ravioli, waffles, tomato soup w/ crackers and thats about it. although i do eat a variety of junk food but those are the only meals are really like to it. i never eat with my family because i always hate what they have!

Mine was never healthy. Until my husband came on the scene, no one restricted me, so I ate pickled beets for two years straight, then switched to mashed potatoes and pea gravy for two years, then mashed potatoes and chicken gravy for about four years, then tomato soup and grilled cheese for a couple of years and so on. In my late teens I once at nothing but steamed broccoli for two years. I'm completely inconsistent on whether it's a healthy type of food, but it's always unbalanced. But once, my dh was around, he always cooked and I eat whatever he puts in front of me. It's a matter of me not wanting to deal with food at all. I find it a huge annoyance. I never want to make any decisions about it and I'm just as likely to forget it as eat it.

I definitely have certain comfort foods, some related to my ethnic background (eg. schnitzel, a German pork cutlet) and other everyday foods, such as meat, potatoes, eggs, etc.

Yes this seems like an Aspie-trait. Its been in Aspie-quiz for a while and is highly relevant. Just can't help wondering if this simply is related to "big-game" hunting of Neanderthals and their reliance on meat in their diet. Once you killed a mammoth you need to eat mammoth meet for a long time

I'm on bologna sandwiches for lunch right now. It MUST be only Oscar Meyer Bologna and Hellman's Real Mayonaise on Pepperidge Farm Country White bread.

This is too funny. I agree with about all of it. I go to the same coffee house each morning, and theyll have my fav pastry waiting for me on a plate. Same lunch place about every day. I used to feel like an idiot for being like that, but after reading all these posts, I realize you all are even sicker than me.

I am so glad I finally kicked the Hellmans (Best Foods on the west caost) mayo addiction. Made the switch to Veganaise and Tofu Tahini combined.

I need the calories since I forget to eat anything often enough. I can't stand the vegan foods, the textures, the way they smell. I get creepy heebie-jeebies when I have to put something like tofu in my mouth.

So did I at first. Now its a staple. Not sure when the change occurred. It took awhile.

I've always done this, and so did my dad. I've also noticed I seem more stable emotionally when I stick to sustenance routines, rather than eating a different lunch or dinner every day.

Post subject: Re: Eating the same foods all the time, aspie trait or not?
This is a description of me-no one thought anything else was of concern, about me as a child. It was my identity, not for the sake of being difficult (as THEY believed) but truly due to my very different sensory perceptions. I only ate a very few (mostly unhealthy) foods, refused all others, and I haven't changed in this respect. Which foods are currently "in rotation" for me depends on availability of product, which in turn is influenced by further variables. It would take forever to list the specifics, suffice it to say the title of this thread really resonated with me.
Whatever you attribute it to, my senses of taste, smell, and sight told me these things (such as pizza-I'm serious, I can't stand cheese, tomato, garlic, or onion) were not (and still are not) food-though the items may be food, according to other people. Wasn't dx'd until adulthood, by which time I'd accumulated all manner of secondary co-morbidities (i.e. self-hatred) in addition to the primary ASD symptoms. As a result, I'm even more "all mixed up" about why I am how I am.

I stopped dating a girl when she told me that she was a nutritionist. I was worried that she would find out how weird my diet was and that she would try to change me by making me eat vegetables (aka: rabbit food).

Also, I worked on cleaning up audio recordings of old people from county Wicklow in Ireland that was done for a history research, they were talking about their lives. They all ate a very narrow range of food.

They ate only potatoes, cabbage, cheese and bacon.

They eat some fish during the summer, when the sea was calm and fishing was possible.

My son was impossible, he is getting better.

I had a lot of rituals with food growing up. Again, not so bad now.

My mother is impossible, she eats certain things everyday, like P. Butter toast, and needs to put butter on it. The worst thing growing up, is she could never understand that just because she liked something, did not mean that her kids did too!!

Everyday for years, "mom, I don't like Butter on my P. Butter sandwich"

Reply: "oh, why not? I love it!

*sigh*

When I was 17 I lived exclusively on liver, pumpernickel, and water for a month. How I justified that was that I was "testing" a diet for a dog I was getting, and thought "turnabout was fair play" since scientists use dogs to test for food safety in human products.

When I was vegan I lived more than anything on potato tacos, the making of which was an inordinately complex affair, involving driving about 30 miles just to get *the* right ingredients.

During the ninja turtles phase of course I lived on pizza for a while.

Right now it's quesadillas -- again like with potato tacos, I have to drive a ways to get *the* right tortillas, *the* right cheese, and *the* right salt.

I went through a "custard" phase when I was 13.

I go through "fried chicken" phases periodically which I know is *dreadful* for my body, but when I want fried chicken, I've just got to have it!

Then last summer, since I didn't have air conditioning, I swear I went through a gallon of Dreyer's Ice Cream every day.

And I did go through a falafel stage too, so I guess it all balances out.

early teens.....taco salad taco salad taco salad

I think the reason I have a pretty diverse diet is because my boyfriend does..and we eat the same stuff..I don't mind variety, but my imagination doesn't stretch very far when independantly thinking of stuff to eat. I loves sushi..i loves mexican food and lotsa stuff in between...( i am kinda a heavy eater)

but when I lived alone I coulda gone weeks eating the same thing...totinos cheese party pizza every day for weeks...or frozen bean burritos...really awful stuff actually..(as in junk food)

I can only eat very bland food - anything even remotely spicy is almost painful for me.

My Mum (who is NT) eats the same thing for weeks on end. She gets frozen meals in their dozens and eats them every night with the same pudding as well. Her fridge always makes me laugh. Just butter, a bottle of wine, milk and about 20 Muller-rice.

When I was younger my Mum stopped feeding us (depression) so I had toast and a packet of bourbon biscuits every day for my dinner. At school I always got a sausage roll and a flapjack. My sister was the same and still is (very NT).

Now I have a boyfriend who refuses to let me eat unhealthy food so it's a bit more varied. I'd be quite happy to eat beans on toast or breakfast cereal every day but he's introduced me to some vegetables and pasta and rice. Pudding however is very repetetive. I discovered that hot chocolate pudding with vanilla ice cream is very tasty so I had it every day for a few weeks. Then they changed the recipe of the puddings so I stopped. It was also making me quite fat.

I definitely prefer bad foods to good foods.