Hello there.
I am a 17 y/o girl, and I have high functioning AS. (And also I'm not native english so forgive me my english xD)
And I wanted to ask about some healthy recipes for me.
Because eating is hard xD I am very picky and I want to try to eat more various things. Is it true that you have to get used to foods and then it will be tasty for you? (I've heard that somewhere, that babies will spit food 5 times before they it it or something, I don't know)
My blood results are in norm so I don't have to worry that much. But I want to eat helthy.
So the main request:
Some simple recipes for dishes with not much ingredients?
Because I don't like complicated stuff with much things mixed, and when I type in "simple healthy recipes" pop out ones that are simply to make, but not the not many ingreedients ones (and I don't know how to type it in english to get what I want, and in my natie Polish, there are worst resources, It's just easier to search in english xD)
Now the background (why I always have to write so long xD)
My mum never really forced me to eat. Because she was a fussy eater as a child so she knowed how it is to be forced. And in my kindergarden the nuns forced us to eat and I was very upset because of it. (They didn't listen to my parents saying that I don't have to eat everything, and I don't like milk and to not force me to eat it (with cereal)) They (nuns) wanted a paper from a doctor that I was alergic to milk for proof???? Like what the heck, they don't legally require it to not give me milk. Even the doctor was suprised, and she was so nice she gave me a fake milk alergy paper)
And the only time my mum tried to force me to eat a pear I felt sick and wanted to vomit, and was very upset so she didn't do it ever again.
I was not diagnosed then, and I was a really good and polite child. I was diagnosed when I was 13 (new school + depresion + OCD).
About the food:
I eat only some things. I don't like to mix things.
For now I like:
- cooked potatos
- fried potatos (on oil)
- fries (bought frozen in store)
- pasta (plane, as everything I write here)
- broccoli
- cauilflower with breadcrumbs
- yellow grean beans (??? dictionary says that xD) cooked or fried (sometimes witch breadcrumbs)
- bread with butter (normal or tosts) This is like my breakfast everyday (we use dark bread, because it's better for you, but sometimes white buns or baugette too)
- bread / bun with olive oil (you just dip the bread in it)
- bread with butter and tomato (+ salad sometimes) (I started to eat this inly year ago, and I like it)
- pickles
- pizza (the best is my mums homemade one. It's dough, tomato sauce on it, then salami, cheese and seasoning. I don't like much cheese, only a little bit, when eating I take of salamy with cheese and it it, then eat the rest that is the best part)
- and recently I started eating pasta with tomato sauce, and I really like it. But It's a really simple tomato sauce. It's made from some whole tomatoes, tomato sauce, and seasoning (oregano, italian something, and garlic) and that's it)
- buckwheat (cooked is not that good, but fried is preety good)
- corn
I do like some meat but not really, and I don't think the preparing is worth it, i think I'll go kinda vegetarian when I will be living on my own.
But I like fried fish (but I don't really know what fish, because when my mum makes it It's not good often, I like when grandma does it but she lives near the sea, and we live on the oposide end of the country (no sea).
When I was small I liked apples. But then through my whole life I didn't like them xD I was disgusted by them (you can chase me witch a apple core and I will be running away xD) And I was disgusted to touch them. Maybe it's because some kindergarden trauma xD (if we didn't want to eat unpeeled apples we had to chew the pilled skin and spit it if we didn't want to sawllow it (we had to because there are vitamins in it) (this is weird xD)). But now I have overcome it, and I eat them sometimes. But I still don't like to touch them xD
And I absolutly hate mashed apples. Ewww, hate it, it is so disgusting. And banana mash (most of the mashes, but some aren't that disgusting to look at xD (for example strawberries or berries).
Bananas were scary and disgusting for me too. Even more than apples. I can eat a half of it now but I still have problems with them xD
About other fruit, I like strawberries, wild strawberries, blackberries, watermelon, melon, oranges and mandarines.
But about oranges and mandarines, I have to peel them in the special way. First the skin, and then when you have this little parts, peel the skin of them. In there you have little little baloons with juice. I eat them. If I don't peel it way I have hard time swallowing and chewing the parts. It just disgusts me and I feel sick. But when you do it my way, the juice gets everywere so recently I wear gloves eating them, so I don't have to wash my hands after xD (and wipe them while eating again and again)
About seasoning, I don't like curry (or spicy things too much), and I don't like bitter things. I like almost everything to be salty xD (but not the corn. Some people put salt on corn D: )
So that's it I think. Probably forgot some, but not much. (And I didn't include sweets and desserts).
So I am looking for some simple healthy recipes with not much ingredients (I don't like many things mixed together). Mostly looking for vegetables and groats/kasha (? I don't know how it i in english). And some advice c: It's really hard to change what you eat as an Aspie xD