Eating in order

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For as long as I can remember, I have eaten food "in reverse order of preference". For example, if I have dinner, I will eat the different types of food starting with my least favourite, working through, leaving the best (usually the meat) until last. I also do this with smaller meals and with something like a Curry; a plate of rice and meat mixed together, I will eat sides first (Onion Bhaji, Samosas) and then eat the majority of the rice next, leaving mostly meat left to eat last.

I even do this with different flavours of the same food or sweets; so if I had a packet of Jelly-Beans, I will eat them in in order, always eating the Orange and Lemon first, leaving my preferable flavours of say, Strawberry, Blackcurrant or Apple until last.

I never deviate from this. Ever (unless it's completely out of my control), and the reverse order of preference thing seems to seep over into other areas of my life; being an avid Movie Collector, if I buy a batch of Blu-Rays, I will work out an order to watch in, working up to the one I'm most looking forward to seeing. Anyone else do this?

I've done this, definitely. Sometimes I do it with my regular food and less so I'll do it with various media I want to watch, but I do that with candy literally all the time. I just can't eat it any other way.

The same is true for me!

Opposite here. Always from favourite to least favourite, starting with the meat first and working my way to the vegetables last. I never mix my food.

That's interesting, progaspie - what is your "reason" for doing so?

Mine is that I want to get the ones I enjoy least "out of the way", saving my favourite for the end, almost as a motivation to get through what are sometimes foods I'm not too keen on..

I eat in order. I eat the least preferred foods first and then the more preferred or favourite foods. I have done this for as long as I can remember.