I have around 8 meals on rotation
8 meals sounds like a perfectly decent sized roster to me.
It’s like that meme one meme where Joseph Gordon-Levitt says “I have eight safe foods” and Zoey Deschanel agrees with him out loud but we can tell she is actually thinking “I have ate safe foods.”
From the movie “Eight (8) Days of (dating) Summer”
My autism likes routine; my adhd likes chaos.
This balances in the form of ever changing routines.
I think I have the opposite where I can’t stand the same meal for like more than 2 days, like the same lunch I planned for the rest of the week
still rotate between the same things tho
My lunch can be the same thing every day for 6 months, but my dinners MUST be unique. And even stuff I love gets old quickly if I have it too often. Breakfast is somewhere between those two extremes.
I can handle it if needed, but will always gravitate towards pretty much ht same meals every day and there are people who say i have eating disorder or disordered eating.
Though it’s highly beneficial so i don’t see any issues with it.
I have my pickyness. But its not crazy wild. I dated a fella once who was def more on the spectrum than I. My best friend at the time, but when we went to my favorite mexican place, and he ordered chicken fingers and fries… cant say I loved that.
Dating a super picky eater, only made me realize how important it was to me (as a varied cook), my partner love food of variation, at least to a degree where you can find something on a menu thats not chicken fingers and fries.
To his honor, he did try a few things out of his comfort zone I cooked. But I cant live off pancakes, pizza and chicken fingers, especially when I was in my baby vegan stages and just exploring new flavors. I started liking onions and peppers, avocado and spicy foods, and my pallet was growing. Nothing wrong with thiers being stagnant, but it was a serious incompatablilty, and I am not even the most adventurous eater.
Cooking is actually my deepest interest, I cook soooo many things, I’m obsessed with flavor. My only issue is texture, but usually I can find a dried or alternative way of prepping ingredients to avoid anything that will set off my gag reflex. So I do like 30+ different things.
I also eat ramen all the time, I have my go to when everything else sounds revolting.
Same meal until it makes me physically ill to think about
I’ve been eating the same like 5 meals for 30 years.
This sounds really bad in a way, but at the same time… Why the hell not? Reminds me of some sitcome joke where someone asks if they should eat chinese tonight, and the other person says: “we had chinese yesterday” and the other person goes:“chinese people eat it every day.”
Personally I think eating the same thing over and over makes it taste like cardboard eventually, plus I end up worrying about balanced nutrition
Christ am I autistic? I’ve been eating the same thing almost every day for like 20 years. I only ever subtract/add to it depending on whether or not I’m trying to lose weight or enjoy life. but it’s usually always the same thing. A year or so ago I decided I would add a pizza day, and guess what? same pizza, prepared the same, every time.
Can’t go wrong with soup and sandwiches for dinner! steelcut oatmeal for breakfast, or scrambled eggs with frozen pepper/onion mix. I’ve yet to get sick of any of it. I suspect it may very well be my last meal.
It’s perfectly normal human behavior but everyone thinks they’re special. I’m not neurodivergent and I’ve eaten 100 homemade Taco Bell enchiritos over the past 3 months.
I just wonder sometimes, because my father is undiagnosed autistic (he just has too many hallmarks to dismiss), and I sure do act a lot like my dad.
And, yeah, same breakfast and dinner (I always skip lunch) for 20 years doesn’t sound that normal to me… i know my ex-wife used to tease me about it.
Guys please take a multivitamin daily if you’re not going to eat a variety of foods. Your habits are dangerously unhealthy.
Once you’ve found an efficient lunch that is nutritional, easy to make and doesn’t taste bad, why would you not keep eating it. You just solved lunch! It’s a joyous occasion!
Does it count as varying if it’s different types of canned soup each day?
No I force myself to eat a variety because eating the same thing every day is a great way to develop a nutrient deficiency. I don’t want to end up like that kid who went blind because he would only eat potato-based fried foods.
Just 8? Guess my dumb ass brain cant handle that, it consideres that too little. I literally have dozens of recipe ideas, that I NEED to rotate.
Japanese Curry is a good go-to st least.
During the pandemic I stopped eating out. I started making all of my own meals, and to make it easier to remember what to get at the store, I narrowed down to the same meals every day. It’s been over four years now, and I’m fine with it.
No processed foods. Fresh or frozen vegetables and some fruit, organic chicken and milk, cheese, and nuts. That’s about it. I spend 30 minutes per day total making meals. Once-a-week shopping is completed in 20 minutes, because I know exactly what I’m getting, and where everything is in the store.
I don’t get bored with the meals, because boredom is all in the mind and I decided that food is not entertainment. That’s all it took.
