Does anybody NOT have a food they can't stand?!

So many of us seem to have some very strong opinions on foods we find not just inedible but unutterably vile. So I was wondering if there are any autistic people here who are happy to eat any food or maybe only have a mild dislike to a few things but would eat them if they were hungry or to be polite?

  • I have been vege since i was 10 or so ... a loooong time.  And yes, it can be very challenging, but it much easier in the uk than many places in thd world! 

  • I do a good tofu recipe .. saute the tofu in various herbs and spices, then throw in cauliflower and broccoli just long enough for it to get hot, then drop that in miso soup with noodles ... yum! (Even the broccoli:-) )

  • I live on bread and soup, evening else is meh and I dislike the taste off. Also gives me dreadful stomach ache.

  • Hi BassFace

    It's great to hear that you have been a vegetarian your whole life and have grown out of being picky with food. Being a vegetarian can definitely present some challenges when it comes to finding options in certain situations, but it's good to know that you have adapted and become more flexible.

    Being open to trying new foods can be a great way to expand your palate and discover new vegetarian options. It's also important to communicate your dietary preferences and needs to others, whether it's when dining out or at social gatherings, to ensure that there are suitable options available.

    If you're curious about the difference between being vegan and vegetarian, you might find this article helpful: [link removed by moderator] It provides a detailed comparison of the two diets and the potential health benefits and drawbacks of each.

    It's great that you have found a way to make being a vegetarian work for you and have been able to navigate the challenges that come with it. Keep exploring and trying new things, and who knows, you may find some new favorite vegetarian dishes along the way!

  • I have been a vegetarian my whole life. I used to be quite picky but I grew out of it, because it's very inconvenient to be picky if there is only one vegetarian option.

  • Cheese! 

    For as long as I can remember I've detested cheese. I can't even place what it is about it that I don't like. It just makes me gag. I've even tried it as an adult (thinking some sort of childhood thing has made me believe I detest the stuff) Still can't put the stuff in my mouth and chew it! Unless it's cooked. I can eat it on toast or in a sauce. I couldn't eat a piece of the "raw" stuff to save my life! I've only recently identified myself as autistic and I know food can be an issue for many but didn't think this was true of me. Until I read this thread. Perhaps this is the root of my cheese issue?! 

  • It is worth noting that sensory processing differences are common in individuals with autism, and this can affect how they experience and respond to certain foods. Some may have difficulty with certain textures, smells, or tastes, which can make it challenging to consume certain foods.

  • What do you mean?? Natto looks so amazing (that is definitely sarcasm). I've been in the vicinity of natto and it was enough.

  • and at worst now the things i dont like i can still eat.... but they are bland and boring... like my mums casserole she used to make that was full of onion and some sort of barley grain thing.... very bland. could eat it but the blandness was torture and it was a chore to eat. i guess i have fixed my body to be survival mode where it can eat anything, or i fixed my mind to it... tbh alot of stuff i have done recently all seems like a fixing of my mind, set my life on track like id never have done before. perhaps whatever asd or whatever i could have has weakened or gotten better, even rolling myself back 2 years i was in a hopeless position and set in that for a long term. crazy how you can turn things around and look back and then realise how bad it was for you before, and how i was quite clearly suffering from some mental health disorder and yet no one cared or realised and just passed it off as being lazy... anyways im drifting off topic as i usually do lol perhaps writing and spamming out all my head babble probably is part of the cure too, feels good to write, maybe thats just making up for lack of ability to articulate and vent it socially. or perhaps its some delusional psychosis type manic phase seeing as last time i mega vented and pretty much started writing a novel it was at the back end of a really stressful months long fight with my boss and going through complaints procedures of which writing and babbling seemed to get rid f some demoralisation and set me back onto normality and motivation somehow.... ah i said id stop this babbling half a paragraph back didnt i lol

  • I am also vege .... getting harder as I am now intolerant to onions! NOOOO!   And I have always loathed bell peppers ... YUCK!

  • i used to be a very fussy eater, eating next to nothing but chips and junk food, but now i can eat almost anything...

    its funny that my fussy eating also got cured around the time after i took up martial arts and tried to better myself, plan and think on my life and future. part of it was for the training part of it was for preparation to be able to eat anything for my assumed state of future homelessness, but i motivated myself to find a way to force myself to eat all types of food and normalise my body to it...eventually foods that you didnt like the texture or taste of your body grows accustomed to and even in some cases craves.... i didnt like pizza but then i craved pizza after i forced myself to eat it... used to be that all the cheese on it combined with other stuff would at first provoke a gag reflex, but the trick with pizza for me was to first eat it when drunk, and only a slice at first, then eventually i guess the nutrients in all the meat and stuff on it your body recognises as stuff that i perhaps need but didnt get much from anywhere else so it then sent craving messages as your body does when it identifies certain things it needs but is lacking and recognises where it can get it from when it detects it.

    anyway i can eat almost anything now. 

    edit: anything aside from some horrible thing i tasted one time.... it was either branstons or marmite... it was some brown ugly looking thing that may have been a sauce or i dunno, some horrible slop.... but it was super tangy and horrible, like a super sour joke sweet..  that is the one thing id dread to ever taste again, the one thing i had to wash my mouth out to try get rid of the taste but it was so strong it still could be tasted pretty bad no matter how much i washed my mouth out.

  • Anyone who says there isn't a food they cannot stand, has never tried natto. :-)

  • I absolutely despise food that has gone soggy especially bread in a sandwich or the tortilla of a wrap and cannot eat it at all - that and cold chips. I would chose to not eat until the next meal over eating those things. Aside from that I'm relatively easy going. I'm vegetarian but that's more of a preference than anything. What about you?

  • Good for you, it's a very healthy way to eat in general, I always had issues with dairy so once I stopped being pescetarian* I became almost entirely plant based.

    *Used to be that fish in a "Mediteranean diet" used to be healthy but since there is so much plastic and pollution in the oceans now eating fish is eating secondhand mercury and the microplastic intake of some people who regularly eat fish is as much as 5 grams  (that's the same as eating a debit card) per week.

  • I am a vegetarian, but apart from that I am not entirely fussy

  • Salad; makes me boke. As does turnip. 

  • Garlic. Just the smell walking past in the shop makes me Nauseated face

  • Cabbage. Horrible taste and smell. I really cannot stomach them!

  • Broccoli!!! Perhaps the most evil green food imaginable....

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