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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Same meal until it makes me physically ill to think about

My autism likes routine; my adhd likes chaos.

This balances in the form of ever changing routines.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

8? Luxury.

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

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

I'd probably eat more varied food if I could afford to eat out often, or had the skill and discipline to properly cook regularly. I'm eating a lot of tortelloni lately.

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.

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.

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