Ice cream in winter?

That sounds quite an autistic trait to me.

I used to have a lot of views of what foods went with each other and if it was different then I wouldn't eat it, or what foods should be eaten with different types of drink.

To a degree this also applied to which things I would have on my fork / spoon together as mixing wrongly was just madness.

It was almost an absolute that if the pairings were wrong it was unthikable and I could not bring myself to eat the combo.

It took many years of actively trying to overcome these preconceptions to be a much less fussy eater and now I will eat almost anything that I like the flavours of, and am willing to at least sample new foods more often.

Changing how you deal with this depends on how important it is for you I guess.

I am odd when it comes to food. The combining things is an interesting one. I definitely have strong views about what works together for a meal and what doesn't. Like rice or pasta has to have sauce, but couscous doesn't. I have preferences for the foods combined on the fork too.

Yet I have also always had the rule that anything I like I will eat with anything else I like, although I did eventually find an exception in marmite chocolate! 

There is a difference between something I will eat and something I want to eat. 

If I was too hot in winter, in a place with the heating up too high, then I would happily eat ice cream, but we don't keep the house that warm. Not cold, but not hot enough to want ice cream. Also I want to keep the ice cream for summer when I might need it. Why should I eat it now when I don't desire it and then not have it then when I will want it, just because my husband has this weird thing where he wants to eat it just because it is there?

I have a strong urge to have a thing in stock ready for when it is needed and he seems to have just as strong an urge to eat it just because it is there. But his urge makes no sense to me, while mine seems very logical.

AuTriker said:

I have a strong urge to have a thing in stock ready for when it is needed and he seems to have just as strong an urge to eat it just because it is there.

Bang on the money for me too - my wife hates any kind of clutter and I am a collector so I have had to refrain from my favorite hobby for decades and put up with being told off for buying spare toiletries / food stuffs when we are not nearly finished what we have.

The need to be prepared for when something is going to happen is a pretty common Autistic trait I believe and seems to be related to how we can control aspects of our environment to avoid discomfort.

I'm sorry to read that. I am a clutterbug collector as well, and my husband has minimalist tendencies! Not a good combo. Poor fellow, he puts up with a lot as I have cluttered up most of the shared spaces in the house as well as my own spaces. At least he has his own spaces which he can keep as clear as he likes. 

He is a bit odd though as there are some things he likes a stock of and other things not so much.

Yes, it is probably worse for some of us when we run out of something we love, and there is no suitable alternative. And shortages are coming! So it makes sense to stock up a bit.

I'm sorry to read that. I am a clutterbug collector as well, and my husband has minimalist tendencies! Not a good combo. Poor fellow, he puts up with a lot as I have cluttered up most of the shared spaces in the house as well as my own spaces. At least he has his own spaces which he can keep as clear as he likes. 

He is a bit odd though as there are some things he likes a stock of and other things not so much.

Yes, it is probably worse for some of us when we run out of something we love, and there is no suitable alternative. And shortages are coming! So it makes sense to stock up a bit.