Food Fads?

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I have noticed both with myself and the few others with AS I have spoken to that there seems to be a common issue with food phases... eating a certain number of items for a period of time, or only eating certain foods, or maybe only foods with certain textures? I myself go through very strong phases where I will either eat seafood every single night, needing the strong taste, or will eat chocolate mousse every night... I have a set selection of foods I will eat for a certain period. Right now, it is a little better, but until recently, it was the seafood, choc mousse, pears, bananas, corn thins and cerial bars.

When I go out to eat, I get the same thing almost every time.

Wendy's is a #6 (Spicy Chicken), mayo only, fries and coke. McDonald's is a double, a large fry, and a McChicken if I am really hungry. Burger King is a Spicy Chicken Tendercrisp value meal.

Some places I have two or maybe even three things I will get. At the Outback, I will either get the Outback Special (12oz, medium-rare) with garlic mash, brocolli or I will get the burger (medium-rare) with American and Swiss, bacon, and BBQ sauce. Cheese fries and a cup of clam chowder always for appetizers.

For me, it's not so much a fad. I know what I like and I get it. Sometimes I get sick of something and stop getting it. I always used to get chicken nuggets at McD's when I was a kid, but I had enough bad experiences with them that I just started getting a cheeseburger. Then they put doubles on the value menu and that was that.

I don't know about 'fads', but I have a certain staple of things I like, and I go back to them every time, and I don't really try anything different.

I go through phases where ALL i'll eat for like a week (breakfast, lunch, dinner, anything) is one certain thing, like chef boyardee beefaroni or cheese pizza hot pockets. Unfortunately for my body, it's rarely, if ever, anything remotely healthy.

And I always get the same thing at restaurants.

Food fads? Yes, definitely, and in all the above combos.

I was once addicted to KFC.

In an Indian restaurant, I have trouble deviating from "Prawn dansak, bindi bhaji, stuffed paratha".

Recently I went through a phase of Snickers (bleugh! They'll always be Marathons, to me).

This month I have been mainly eating peanuts.

PS. Texture! It makes me feel very ill if find anything I don't like in my mouth. A tiny bit of fat or gristle, any white of egg, a hint of brussel sprout. I also could not eat any part of a salad that had been coloured by beetroot.

It's an obssession with a certain flavour, that I can't get enough of, and then POOF! it's on to something else.

lately all i have wanted to eat are quesadillas. does anyone think the fad may be related to stress or is it an ongoing thing?

That started when I started eating I think. I ate pickled beets for two year, then mashed potatoes and pea gravy for two years, then mashed potatoes and something else (I can't remember what really) and so on. When I left home, I ate nothing until my roommates noticed and took me down to the dorm cafeteria, but all that food overwhelmed me. I can't be around that many smells. I used to follow them, get what they got and go sit in my room so I didn't get sick. Now, I eat whatever my husband puts in front of me and says, "Eat this." He at least knows that my food cannot touch or I won't eat it. So, he's careful about that. I eat one thing at a time clockwise around the plate and have for as long as I can remember.

I always forget about it until something happens like going out to lunch with someone who doesn't know me and they freak out. Then, I suddenly remember it's verboten and just say, "Sorry. That's how I eat." When I was a manager, my employees would let the new employees know that I did this and they shouldn't stare or ask questions because it would be rude. I think it was seven years of managing them before one of them told me they did that. Apparently, they were told about all of my strange habits to "prepare" them.

For me, it's ongoing. It happens for two reasons:

a) I get a taste for something and can't get enough of it, until I suddenly get sick of it and can't eat it at all for at least a month or so.

b) It's more convenient for me not to have to choose what to eat.

It's really mostly a, though, because even when I lived at home and had to choose what to eat, I'd almost invariably still choose to eat just the one thing.

I think it really annoyed my mom when I came to visit her, because she'd want to buy whatever it is I wanted to eat and get what I ate the last time I was there, but by the next time I visited, I didn't want it anymore.