Routines Surrounding Food

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I WISH i could eat the same thing every single day. Eating is such a chore to me. I don't have that luxury living in a group home that is government funded.

When I was in HS I ate an entire box of mac and cheese daily and a lot of brownies.

Before that I ate tuna everyday because my Aspie mother wouldn't buy anything else edible for us to eat

Now I struggle to get my daily nutrients and often give up and stop eating out of frustration.

peanut butter+ coco + liquid choclate icecream, "sauce" ie sugar and cheap coco = yummies.

few have heard of such a recipe

try it.

Oh yes, my biggest routines involves food.

I have to eat my food in a certain order and I've been doing it ever since I can remember.

I will eat the meat/protein product first, then the veg and then the potatoes/carbohydrates. I don't mix food on a whole and usually have a partitioned plate at home as there's a lot of foodstuffs I hate to touch others on the plate.

Alright, here it goes.
As far as my eating and drinking (not alcohol) habits, I have some interesting specifications. I remember before my parents and I were asked by my counselor if I have unusual eating habits, but now that I think about it, I think that we didn't really understand the question.

I go through monthly/yearly cycles of obsessively eating a specific food/meal very, very often. I go through usually even longer cycles with particular drinks. For a while it was ice tea with no sugar. For a while it was sprite in a glass. For a while it was very vanilla soy milk. For a while it was yellow gatorade. Now, it is lemonade halfway watered down in a tall glass with a table spoon.

I am also one of those people who does not like many foods to touch. It's just disgusting and wrong to me. I do NOT, and I repeat do NOT eat fruit salads. I do NOT want to taste pineapple on my peaches!! !! ! The times that I have had fruit salads, I usually picked out one fruit that I would eat from the whole salad, and it would be disgustingly tainted by other fruit, which are just fine BY THEMSELVES.

My food can not touch other food on my plates. I hate buying school lunches, because the lunch ladies get beans all over my peaches and bean juice underneath my bread or pizza or something. It is literally painful for me to even witness.

There are many, many foods that I only eat a certain way. My mom makes cream of wheat a certain way. That is the kind I eat. She makes ice tea a certain way. That is the kind I drink. I eat cheese tortillas with no ham. I didn't say I want ham. It's not enhancing it. It's making it wrong. I am a very, very picky eater. I didn't always realize it either.

Many foods and or drinks have a taste far too strong for me. I hate barbeque sauce. I only drink lemonade watered down VERY much. I also must drink it with a spoon that isn't evil. I LOVE spicy foods, however. I hate many sweet foods. Well, I like a lot of them too, but there are more that I dislike. I don't obsess over candy. I'd rather eat broccoli. I love broccoli. I love salty things. I hate icing. It is way too sweet.

There was also a period of time a few years back in which I would only drink things with a straw. I also for many drinks will only drink it from certain things. Some drinks only go in glasses. Some only go in bottles. They rarely fall into the bottle category. I don't like bottles very much.

I have to have my mini pancakes in a certain pattern places on a certain plate. The only time I do not eat mini pancakes on that plate is if I go to my other parent's house, for it is not important to the point of which I'd bring it with me. They still must be in a certain pattern, however.

I have overcome one thing about my pickiness and standards. I now can sometimes manage to eat things that have little bits and pieces of things that I don't like in them, but there are still situations in which I will not stand for it.

Do you guys think that these are considered "unusual eating habits?" We just said that I didn't have unusual ones, but now I question that.

edit: An acception to food touching is if I have both mashed potatoes and corn. In that case, I must use my fork to make rows in my mashed potatoes to plant my corn in, and then eat it quadrant by quadrant. I am not kidding.