8 meals sounds like a perfectly decent sized roster to me.

My autism likes routine; my adhd likes chaos.

This balances in the form of ever changing routines.

I can handle it if needed, but will always gravitate towards pretty much ht same meals every day and there are people who say i have eating disorder or disordered eating.

Though it's highly beneficial so i don't see any issues with it.

I think I have the opposite where I can't stand the same meal for like more than 2 days, like the same lunch I planned for the rest of the week

still rotate between the same things tho

I've been eating the same like 5 meals for 30 years.

Once you've found an efficient lunch that is nutritional, easy to make and doesn't taste bad, why would you not keep eating it. You just solved lunch! It's a joyous occasion!

I guess I'm definitely not on the spectrum, then, I've never been picky with food and always seek out new things.

You don't want to eat pizza every day? I do.

Just 8? Guess my dumb ass brain cant handle that, it consideres that too little. I literally have dozens of recipe ideas, that I NEED to rotate.

Japanese Curry is a good go-to st least.

My autistic husband cant even have the same meal twice a day

I'm rotating places I order food from, but I usually have a preset combo at each place. Unless they remove or alter an item I usually order.

Does it count as varying if it's different types of canned soup each day?

Kinda... It's more like I have a small set of three or four foods that I rotate through, so it appears as though I'm more varied than I am. I don't vary too much from them very often.

Christ am I autistic? I've been eating the same thing almost every day for like 20 years. I only ever subtract/add to it depending on whether or not I'm trying to lose weight or enjoy life. but it's usually always the same thing. A year or so ago I decided I would add a pizza day, and guess what? same pizza, prepared the same, every time.

Can't go wrong with soup and sandwiches for dinner! steelcut oatmeal for breakfast, or scrambled eggs with frozen pepper/onion mix. I've yet to get sick of any of it. I suspect it may very well be my last meal.

I always feel like the odd one out here. I'm okay with eating the same thing for practical reasons but I really like having a big variety in food. Maybe being previously married to a chef trained that into me, and I certainly know how to cook from it so the making of food isn't a big mental overhead for me

Personally I think eating the same thing over and over makes it taste like cardboard eventually, plus I end up worrying about balanced nutrition

Sometimes I forget to buy one of the three vegetables I eat everyday so, yes.

Cooking is actually my deepest interest, I cook soooo many things, I'm obsessed with flavor. My only issue is texture, but usually I can find a dried or alternative way of prepping ingredients to avoid anything that will set off my gag reflex. So I do like 30+ different things.

I also eat ramen all the time, I have my go to when everything else sounds revolting.

I have my pickyness. But its not crazy wild. I dated a fella once who was def more on the spectrum than I. My best friend at the time, but when we went to my favorite mexican place, and he ordered chicken fingers and fries.. cant say I loved that.

Dating a super picky eater, only made me realize how important it was to me (as a varied cook), my partner love food of variation, at least to a degree where you can find something on a menu thats not chicken fingers and fries.

To his honor, he did try a few things out of his comfort zone I cooked. But I cant live off pancakes, pizza and chicken fingers, especially when I was in my baby vegan stages and just exploring new flavors. I started liking onions and peppers, avocado and spicy foods, and my pallet was growing. Nothing wrong with thiers being stagnant, but it was a serious incompatablilty, and I am not even the most adventurous eater.

I can handle the same thing for a short while, but as someone who loves food of all types, I would die if I was limited on what I could eat.

8? Luxury.

During the pandemic I stopped eating out. I started making all of my own meals, and to make it easier to remember what to get at the store, I narrowed down to the same meals every day. It's been over four years now, and I'm fine with it.

No processed foods. Fresh or frozen vegetables and some fruit, organic chicken and milk, cheese, and nuts. That's about it. I spend 30 minutes per day total making meals. Once-a-week shopping is completed in 20 minutes, because I know exactly what I'm getting, and where everything is in the store.

I don't get bored with the meals, because boredom is all in the mind and I decided that food is not entertainment. That's all it took.

No I force myself to eat a variety because eating the same thing every day is a great way to develop a nutrient deficiency. I don't want to end up like that kid who went blind because he would only eat potato-based fried foods.

While I probably could eat the same thing every day, it wouldn't be healthy but more importantly I'm cooking for more than me and my husband absolutely dislikes repeating too often.

Until a single pepperoni comes out undercooked. Then pizza gets blacklisted for 5 years.

By varying, do you mean like changing the condiment I consume the one food with?

The fact I'm happy to eat the same food repeatedly doesn't make me autistic, other things do. Like there's a couple things I don't like and I've gotten past most of them. But in general food is pretty good and I can never eat enough of it.

frozen pizzas are on sale here for the first time in ages.. to a pre-pandemic sale price at that. if i had the extra money, the freezer (it's not terribly large, just the one that's part of the fridge) would be full of them.

We get two meals per week plus a special dinner Fridays and Pizza Saturdays. But that's rooted in the fact that we meal prep and 10-12 portions for two dishes is about what we can knock out in a day.
The real culprit is the question of "what's for lunch/dinner" and answering it twice a week is a lot more manageable than answering it 10-12 times.
Actually, if you were to ask me right now, I don't have any favourite foods, nothing that I haven't had in a while or could go for and have, in fact, never eaten.

Up until my mid-teens I ate almost all the same thing, but then I made a decision to try to be open to trying to eat new things and never stopped.

I mostly eat the same thing with light variation every day. Sometimes, I might want to change it up (sushi once a week). My issues are mostly with textures; I don't like things that burst in my mouth much (raw tomatoes, fish eggs, etc.). It's not that I can't eat them, and sometimes do, but I don't seek them out ever.

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I have been eating 3 breakfasts on rotation for around a year now (since I finally have time to have something that isn't cereal since graduating high school).

One is 3 containers, 1 with hummus as a dip, 1 with feta and garlic, and the last with a microwave wholegrain wrap cut into chips.

The second one is 3 eggs with garlic and onion flakes, feta and sometimes silver beet, then microwaved, then 2 quartered wholegrain wraps to eat it with.

Third is couscous with feta, garlic and silver beet and some salt and pepper.

I love the first two since I almost only rely on the microwave timer, and the last is also great due to simplicity but it takes the longest to make.

Do slightly different versions of the same meal count?

I subsist on mostly pasta with different sauces, Tex-Mex stuff, and a couple soups/casseroles during the colder months. I’m perfectly content with it to be honest

That's paradise.

I'm one of those autistic people who will eat anything and can cook most things. It's my NT wife who is for real the pickiest eater I ever met. Tacos, beef dips, chicken nuggets, pizza, all on heavy rotation.

What a flex. Look at Mr 8 meals over here.I have like 4 on rotation until the heat death of the universe.

Not that I don't appreciate variety, but going for a different mid-week meal is a commitment that I'm usually not ready for.