Can Anyone Eat the Same Foods Without Getting Bored?

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Same as the question: Can anyone eat the same foods without becoming bored with them?
I can. I remember when I was working on my dad's commercial fishing boat in Alaska (he's a salmon troller; not a trawler, but a troller). We were pretty much eating the same things: Salmon (of course!), spaghetti, crackers, cereal, different selections of canned fruit and veggies (the same, different selections), and occasional beef. It was great, and I never got bored with it. I could eat the same breakfast for several days in a row and I don't get bored with it. I don't have lots of trouble changing my breakfast (or any meal), but I don't have a problem keeping it all or mostly the same. Does anyone else notice this in their own lives?

I eat and drink mostly the same things. There isn't much variety in my meals... People often ask me how come I'm okay with it. I just see it as a positive thing - basically, it's an example of how I have less needs than most people. Some needs are harder for me to fulfill, but overall I don't need many of the things that other people do. The ability not to get bored too quickly from stuff as food - well, perhaps the best thing about my autistic traits.

Yes, I eat the same foods most days and don't get bored. I could easily eat the same food for breakfast, or for lunch, or for dinner every day. In fact, I even often eat the same food for more than one meal during a day.

I used to eat one type of food in particular, more than once per day almost every day, but it isn't sold anymore.

I still want that type of food, even though it hasn't been sold in many years. Whenever I'm hungry, that's usually the food I would prefer to eat.

Yes, but also no. While I could not eat the same thing for every meal (like manicotti or mac and cheese), I can eat the same foods in rotation over the course of several days or a week, and that's how I prefer it. I love food and cooking, but I'm the type who very predictably orders the same thing from takeout, makes the same sandwich for weeks at a time, and has a food routine. But it does have multiple items, and I need that.

Yes, well apart from dinner. I have toast and coffee for breakfast. Some sort of salad w/ chicken or ham sandwich for lunch but dinner can vary. It's either rice or noodles w/ vegetables, pasta, pizza, fish, chicken pie, lasagna etc.

Yes. At my grandmas work they were making potato wedges and there was half a tonne of left overs which no companies wanted. Instead of throwing them away people were allowed to take them home but no one wanted to. My grandma decided to give some to me and I liked them so much that I ate the whole half a tonne of them by myself.
Obviously not all at one sitting though. I was so sad when she said that they were all gone because they had become my regular breakfast. However I soon found another food to take over which was Weetbix.

I like to have different things for dinner but I prefer to have the same breakfast and snacks everyday because it's easier. I hate having to try to decide what I feel like eating because there are too many options.

One of the most significant ways in which I differ from most people I meet is with regards to food. I never loved food - not to say I don't eat when I'm hungry, because I do, and at least when I was in college I ate quite a lot. But I never saw much of a benefit in being adventurous with food, or see a pleasure in eating as an end in itself (as opposed to a means to stop feeling hungry). Typically I'd eat the same things every day, and never liked much variety. I'd usually be the pickiest eater in a group and it'd sometimes hold me back socially.

Yes. I tend to rotate the same 3-4 meal options indefinitely, unless I get a specific craving (which can happen when my hormones are out of whack).

I do have a limited set of meals, largely because I combine a lot of things yet only have so much cupboard space, hence I go through phases of only eating certain things.

I do change around a bit though, it's not so much that I get bored of what I'm eating, it's more that I feel like eating something specific at times, hence breaking from what I was previously eating.

This is a cool subjust.

My oldest son (undiagnosed, but probably aspie) would eat one thing ALL YEAR for lunch. One year it was always a ham sandwich. The next year it was pizza. He has never been particularly adventurous with food, and any food he did eat was meat and potatoes, or sandwiches with no condiments.

My youngest son (diagnosed PDD, more affected) is very easy as far as foods go -- he'll try pretty much anything, and likes changes.

Go figure.

I find that I eat a lot of the same things over, again. People wonder how I can do that. I just tell them that it's cheaper and easier.

I eat the same thing every morning ham and toast I always have the same thing when I order take away.

Over the course of our marriage, my wife and I have established a repertoire of a few dozen meals (we take turns cooking dinner), and we eat a rotation of the same things. Never so often that they get boring. For instance, months can go by where we haven't made cabbage rolls, so when we have them again it's sort of a treat.

When we go to restaurants, we tend to order the same things that we like, because we've had enough time to try other things and find the one we like best. We hardly ever eat at McDonald's, but in my whole life, I have never had anything there but a Big Mac. I don't care for anything else on their menu, because it isn't going to be as good. A Quarter Pounder with cheese is the burger that wishes it was a Big Mac. When we go to Marie Livingston's steak house, we always have the ribeye and a loaded baked potato, since it's so amazingly good. My wife ordered something else one time, and ended up regretting it. Not because it wasn't good, but because it wasn't as good as the ribeye. I gave her a piece of mine so it wasn't a total loss!

I can definately eat the same things and not get bored. When I first started to cook my own food I ate pasta every day for dinner for about a year. Even now my diet is fairly limited.

I will eat most of the stuff that my wife likes to cook and eat, but she knows that left to my own devices I would have a very limited diet based on a series of "old friends". When she meet me I was living on a diet with only about 10 meals which I randomly would eat.

I also used to go through phases of always having the same thing for lunch for weeks on end.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

I am a very picky eater, so I discover a food/dish that I like, I eat it every day until I get so sick of it, I never want to eat it again.