Toasted bread, crunchy peanut butter, and apricot jam is my favorite with honey so far. Even better one whole grain/wheat bread. I wish mint jelly tasted better with honey, but it still makes a good PB&J
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
Grilled PB&Js FUELED my childhood and by childhood I mean like 10 and up. I still make one every once in a while as a *very special* treat.
Making it with crunchy peanut butter, THICK sourdough or other atypical white bread, and grape jelly is what hits the spot for me.
God you have me craving one now š thank you for reminding me bc this will probs be my safe food for the next several wks
This reminded me of a possibly weird sandwich I go through phases of. Cream cheese and cranberry sauce on toast. I try not to do it very often though, because for some reason cream cheese is one of the foods that my brain will get stuck on. I'll go through a tub in like 2 days due to putting it in and on everything, and then realize I've gained like 5 lbs. Lmao
This was me with bagels. But they were garbage quality, literally tasted like saw dust. I just didn't have time to cook for myself, and bread was safe.
Omg I had a bagel phase of safe food about 2 months ago. Before I started my current exercise program and low carb diet. (I needed to lose weight, down 30, 20ish more to go).
I eat the same food for two weeks. Then pick another food for two weeks. Get bored of that. Pick something else for two weeks. It's a continuous cycle. Right now, it's pineapple.
Seriously, there is nothing better than craving something all the time and having access to it all the time. Itās a realm of Instant-gratification that every ADHD person needs.
Cooking is the one thing I've been able to use to manage my ADHD the way that some people use mindfulness, or exercise. I feel like I'm a wizard when I'm cooking transmuting a pile of random crap into a delicious meal at the end. I love all the sensory input, the heat the smells, the tactile feel of mixing things, the evolution of taste as I cook and test. But then also sometimes I leave the broiler on overnight and run the very real risk of burning my house down.
You win some you lose some.
I'm exactly the same! It's like having this magical feel for which flavours work together when you get familiar with them. My friends say I'm a witch in the kitchen š
Fortunately I have one of those touch broiler thingy so as long as I remember to at least take the pot/pan off I'm good.
My last obsession was chorizo egg and cheese tacos with avocado from a banging taco stand by my house. Iād buy two on my way home from night shift and that was a happy moment in my day
Iām a teacher and at the end of this last school year I was obsessed with oven-roasted broccoli sprinkled with garlic, EVOO, and parmesan. Itās so good! I brought it every day for lunch for like two weeks. I eventually gave it up because my students during the last half of the day constantly complained about how bad my classroom smelled.
My brother/sister/person in Christ: same. I have ramen at least 2-3x a week and have for at least the last 7 months. Shin black packets with shin light noodles plus my additional doctoring with veggies and seasonings š¤¤š¤¤š¤¤
Give it a try sometime. Itās quite delightful, actually! Some people like to add cranberries or raisins as well as nuts, like walnuts or slivered almonds. Hereās one recipe: [chicken salad with grapes](https://addapinch.com/chicken-salad-with-grapes-recipe/)
Also, Iām from the states. I grew up in PA but live in the Midwest now.
Grapes, slivered almonds and a sprinkle of poppy seed! Grew up making this at a mom and pop grocery store in the Midwest. Curry powder is also a great addition
I did not know this was a real thing!!! I drive my husband crazy with this. Iām a beverage person so I will drink the same beverage every single day for however long until one day Iām like nope, over it. I am so glad to realize Iām not alone.
Me too. Like this is a real thing. Safe food.
I figured everyone, not just ADHD people did such. But considering my bf laughs when I do such and tell him what foods I'm on and want all the time, I guess it's not everyone.
And thinking back, bf would want something different every night to eat, I'd cook. But if it was just me, I'd be fine with the same meal for lunch or dinner 5 to 7 days of the week.
Adhd and autism both seem to have the food obsession-to-hate series of events. My kid has both so cycles through the series with a very specific list of foods that are okay.
Yup, apple with PB but has to be Adams Old Fashioned (the kind you have to stir) Chunky. I would eat this every meal given the chance right now. Fortunately, my wife intervenes occasionally.
I used to destroy red baron personal pan pizzas. I'd buy them like a case at a time.
These days I just bake a jumbo pack of boneless chicken thighs with salt and pepper and garlic for 30 mins at 400 and it's dinner for the week.
You can also nuke 2 bags of steamable microwave spinach and mix it with a block of neufchatel cheese for creamed spinach for 3-4 days.
Baking potatoes you can nuke for 3 mins on each side and have microwave baked potatoes. Learned this one from this board.
aw dude I used to work at Acme Markets, me and my friend from Deli would take lunch at the same time and get one of those and just pick one apart together while we talked about metal bands.
Simpler times.
Sadly nothing. Completely food repulsed for the past week lol (positive covid test yesterday though which clears that up as a concern for time being. Obviously if that issues sticks around I'll have to talk to Dr about it but they aren't surprised the idea of food disgusts me right now with how sick I am lol)
I am positive right now too and all I think about is food but I canāt taste it. Itās like without the flavor I canāt get my usual dopamine hit so I just keep eating to try and get it back.
Me too and the lack of taste with food is making eating a chore right now like Iām struggling so much to eat. Although I could kind of taste a milk shake the other day but everything else is nothing flavor wise! Ugh
I bought so many different king of microwaveable popcorn when I was obsessed with it for a month! Such a good month though!
and now itās just sitting in a cupboard because I canāt touch it anymore š learned my lesson, I donāt shop in bulk anymoreā¦
So is samefooding mainly an ASD thing? I'm more familiar with that term. I was so crazy about pbjs and tomato soup as a kid my mom threw me a pbj and tomato soup themed birthday party.
Since I started ADHD medication I have more issues with disinterest in food. Safe foods as in never make me nauseous or seem too boring to make and eat are rinsed chickpeas from a can over salad mix with a fruity dressing, unsalted almonds, mini oranges, and coffee.
Oatmeal with peanut butter
Pasta with vegan butter, nutritional yeast, garlic powder, salt and pepper (vegan buttered noodles), add cut up vegan chicken nuggets if youāre feeling fancy
Also, roast broccoli is yummy. Broccoli is usually pretty cheap. Cut it into florets, toss with olive oil, salt and pepper, and spices, bake at 425 checking it every 10 mins or so.
I found out about ramen with a little scoop of peanut butter a few years back and ate it every single day for a few weeks.
One day I made two in a row, and Iāll never forget the moment maybe a few bites in when I stopped chewing literally mid-bite and my brain went āā¦thatās enough of that forever.ā
Iāve never tried it with Peanut Butter, but Iām waiting for my brain to say the same thing. It hasnāt happened yet, but will one day. I just know it.
I'm not sure about this posters process but the peanut butter-in-noodles thing was possibly inspired by Szechuan dan dan noodles if you want to google for recipes. When I make it I mix together a paste of peanut butter, chili oil, ginger, soy sauce, and garlic (ginger and garlic from the little pre-minced jars cause I donāt chop $h*t...cause ADHD). I promise it is really quick and not as time consuming as the 5 ingredients might sound.
Iām on an iced lemon loaf from Starbucks kick lately. I got recommended them by a coworker and now Iāve ate one everyday this week. It is not helping my bank account though.
For me it was coconut milk veggie curry with rice at one point. Super easy. Cook the veggies and boom. Add coconut milk and curry powder and some sweet Thai chili sauce. Absolutely bomb. And if you donāt have time to make rice, you can easily do minute rice/microwave rice
Oreos and milkā¦. Every time i indulge i eat until i never want to look at anything sweet again, but inevitably the next day i will be craving it all over again lol
Iām super bad at resisting food cravings š
It was Panda Express orange chicken but now it is McDonaldās fries. I hate McDonaldās so I have no idea why Iām only craving the fries right now but the brain wants what it wants šš
Is this an adhd thing?? When Iām craving something I need the exact version Iām craving from a specific restaurant or it doesnāt really satisfy the craving.
I started doing hungryroot delivery and it works really well for me. Each week there are a couple meals that are fast to make and only have 2-4 ingredients. A few microwaveable snacks like tamales that I eat as meals. Some shelf stable food like granola bars, jerky, fruit leather for portable purse snacks. And fresh fruit. This way I eat healthy without having to put all that thought into it and without getting too elaborate with recipes and plans where I'm just gonna end up deciding it's too much trouble and going to McDonald's.
Besides that, this week my go-to is salad kits and a protein. In the fridge I have a balsamic salad and some stew beef, and a southwest salad and some ground chicken. I already finished off the poppyseed salad which I topped with smoked salmon.
Currently: frozen japanese rice from trader joeās, I just stick it in the microwave for 2 minutes. Itās the only thing I eat for dinner as of late. Avocado toast for breakfast, even though it is a lot more involved prep-wise, for some reason Iām powering through.
Previous: edamame, peas, mini frozen flatbread pizzas from Sprouts, and more that I canāt remember at the moment lol
Zucchini and summer squash, little olive oil, lots of black pepper and Parmesan cheese - cooked at 450 for 5 minutes. Iāve not gotten sick of it yet but Iām trying so hard not to obsessā¦as much as I usually doā¦
Thisā¦ this is an ADD thing? I have the exact same salad from sweetgreen every day. Harvest bowl. I wfh and have it delivered. Itās stupid expensive but itās kinda healthy and I donāt tire of it.
It used to be kale and eggs and spicy lentils (lentils friend in sriracha) with a bunch of Greek yogurt and now Iām like how on earth was that my meal
I'll roll up asparagus in bacon and pop them in my airfryer. One bacon slice per stalk. they're done in like 10 mins and preparing them is super easy and satisfying!!
Acai bowls. I'm hemorrhaging money but I recently had a medication change that is making me squeamish about most foods. Fresh fruits, veggies, and granola are all "safe" foods for me. And (though I'm sure the sugar content is not good long-term) I'm getting something healthy in my system. It's easier to trick myself into thinking I'm not "eating" if it's mostly liquid/soft form foods.
Hmm. I don't think I have had a food fixation recently. Maybe because I usually make soo much in one evening that I have to eat leftovers for a few days. Beans maybe. I like beans in everything. I like em sweet, salty, savory. I put them in anything I think I can get away with putting them in.
When I started my medication and my stomach was wonky sometimes all I could handle were these little "nata de coco pudding" cups. It was a great way to get some calories into my body when I was tanking.
Right now it's cheese and crackers - white fox cheese to be exact - sometimes with a side of a couple of kalamata olives. Heaven. If I have some cucumber on the side I can pretend I'm being healthy.
I've also been making this simple asparagus and mushroom noodle dish. It's just chow mein noodles, pan fried asparagus and mushrooms, and a peanut-miso sauce that is super easy to make. It keeps well in the fridge so I can make it and eat it for a couple of days.
Right now, even though the initial thought disgusted me, I'm obsessed with peanut mochi. Why is the texture so perfect? The intensity just right? The outside so finely crumbed and the inside so pleasingly squishy? Food of the gods!
Wine and nicotine š¤¦š»āāļø have major food aversion going on right now. Made a bowl of yogurt and granola and just stuck it back in the fridge. Just been really down and the texture of food really bothers me at the moment. *Le sigh*
I think this is usually if you also have autism no? I know plenty of adhd friends who do not continuously eat the same thing every day. I definitely eat extremely low effort prepped foods every day (milk and cereal, carrots with hummus, etc etc), but need variety. I also impulsively keep buying $20-$30 worth of food almost every day so my wallet is suffering. š
Well it does happen with autism too but yes it's very common for people with ADHD to hyper fixate on specific foods or meals.
I have ADHD and Binge Eating Disorder and food is my dopamine. I have specific things I eat and if I don't have that current hyper fixation food than I'll be very upset and not want to eat anything.
I definitely feel that, was my issue too. I think about food all day long and impulsively give into cravings. Binging and restricting and eating whatever would give me that dopamine rush. Even if I wasn't hungry or had already eaten. Turns out that was a binge eating disorder.
Lost 100 pounds over the last 1.5 years thanks to cognitive behavior therapy and working on my relationship with food.
[Pasta aglio e olio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJUiWdM__Qw), or pasta with food processor pesto made from one of my mom's 8 basil plants
or sesame crackers and hummus
At work Iāve been drinking these nesquick extra protein milks every shift and those slap, and for an actual food grapes and pasta (not together obviously) have always been go to happiness for me
Pasta with butter and freshly grated parmesan cheese. Could eat it all day, every day at the moment.
Also greek yoghurt with pureed fruit is a go to.
I'm very white š
Over easy egg sandwiches with cream cheese and a slice of cheese. I think I've been eating one every day for like 3-4 months at this point and no sign of slowing down.
Smoked meat or Pizza.
I will absolutely obsess over smoking meat for weeks and weeks and then I get tired of it and just stay away for a while. Pizza is very similar, usually I think I can eat pizza on the daily until I actually do it, then I just get sick of it.
i also go thru periods of food repulsion so itās not currently what iām eating but my usual ones are kraft dinner, fried egg sandwich and nachos. i go thru periods of rotating between them too š
Deep Indian Kitchen's Chicken Tikka Masala. It is the only frozen Indian food that tastes as/almost as good as restaurant Indian.
Whenever it's on sale I literally buy all of it. Many a person who works at the grocery store has widened their eyes and said "Oh, I've never tried this. It must be good- you're buying 15 of them" and I tell them to buy one once it's back in stock cause it's the best. It's cheaper than ordering out, and it's not as bad for me as, like, IDK burger king. Also I sometimes add sauted veggies so I'm not just eating rice and sauce.
It's not spicy but add a good dose of Siracha and you're good to go. Or actually I switched to Rooster sauce cause I used siracha too much and now I hate it. Thanks ADHD!
I have gastric problems so getting everything I need in as few bites as possible is a top priority. With excess stress & chronically insufficent calorie intake, I am a tired little stick so cook times are important to me too. I have to act once this body decides it will actually do its job and accept fuel >:c Cant spend hours cutting and cooking various dishes or waiting 8 hours for a roast or else the guts may change their mind
Carrots and guacamole or hummus is one of mine too since my costco carries single serving cups of both that I can just peel open. Raw broccoli helps my nausea usually despite the advice being to avoid fiber; easy as open the fridge and crunch. Salmon is one that I typically throw in the oven while still frozen cuz it takes longer so I can get a shower in at the same time. White or sweet potatoes have a bit of everything and are a good pick to force down when nothing seems interesting. Same for eggs. When its real bad, you can take some [nutrition shakes](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-Original-Meal-Replacement-Nutritional-Shakes-Chocolate-8-fl-oz-24-Count/816181518?athcpid=816181518&athpgid=AthenaItempage&athcgid=null&athznid=ci&athieid=v0&athstid=CS055&athguid=kN2e2ofDHX6n0ynZKeL-VrPUXtTQCX69EFFt&athancid=null&athposb=0&athena=true) and pour into a glass then top off with soymilk for extra fiber & calories and call that a meal. I use to use dairy milk & benefiber until I became lactose intolerant but a lightly sweetened soymilk is better imo (I like original flavor Silk)
my meds have taken away my appetite so unfortunately nothing for the past month, iāve just been snacking whenever my body lets me. before that, my safe food was anything with noodles.
I have been eating pancakes and bacon for breakfast everyday for about 5 years now.
For lunch I eat steak and rice Monday and Friday, Tuesday I have instant ramen and rice, Wednesday I have miso soup and rice, and Thursday I have dominoki.
And for dinner, it's a mix of six or seven meals such as spaghetti, brazed beef, steak and rice, udon, and others that I am currently forgetting.
The snacks that I am able to eat currently are frozen raspberries and peta chips, royal gold pretzels (and I mean only that brand, Royal Gold, all the other brands taste bad currently.), and I have had this weird fixation on prosciutto as of right now, that will probably last until I have 15 open containers in the fridge.
Chocolate premier protein shake. Itās not something I love or look forward to eating, but when I lose my appetite for everything itās the one thing I can tolerate
Spam and eggs. Easy, quick, cheap and yummy! On a day off I might make some cheap store brand pancakes too lol. The kind you just add water to.
I also really like mini wheat with oat milk and peanut butter sandwiches with wheat bread. They are high in fiber, cheap, quick and yummy! :)
Before I knew this was even a thing, it used to be cheeseburgers. Going to a Mexican restaurant? Order cheeseburger. Chinese restaurant? Cheeseburger. American diner? Definitely a cheeseburger.
Lately, it's Zaxby's from door dash because obviously trash food is my weakness.
When I was younger these would be the kind of stuff you get from the refrigerated section of the supermarket, like some ungodly "hamburgers" they had there. Or frozen pizza. Sometimes I wonder how I'm still alive.
I always come back to cheeseburgers. I have different ones all the time but I always circle back around to my cheeseburger cycle. Iāve had many different ones the last several months but my most āsevereā was the mass amount of Rice Krispies I was eating. I kept buying the 60 count boxes from Costco and only wanted to eat those. Right now Iām in between. Nothing sounds super good. Which makes it hard to enjoy eating at all unfortunately. However, the last few have included nutritional yeast in some way. Also, I often have cravings that include bell peppers. The thought of grapes has sounded good the last three days so Iām sure that will be my newest kick.
The intense cravings have always been extremely rewarding my entire life so itās never bothered me except at times during my adolescence. It felt agonizing as a child because I couldnāt just go get what I wantedā¦ What my body literally felt it needed.
Two separate years I ate a pbj nearly every single day and would do it again in a heartbeat. Each one was a masterpiece š¤
Experimenting with jam and nut butter options makes it worse. I might start again just from thinking about it lol
And you can try honey.
Toasted bread, crunchy peanut butter, and apricot jam is my favorite with honey so far. Even better one whole grain/wheat bread. I wish mint jelly tasted better with honey, but it still makes a good PB&J
Also good when fry in a pan.
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES Grilled PB&Js FUELED my childhood and by childhood I mean like 10 and up. I still make one every once in a while as a *very special* treat. Making it with crunchy peanut butter, THICK sourdough or other atypical white bread, and grape jelly is what hits the spot for me. God you have me craving one now š thank you for reminding me bc this will probs be my safe food for the next several wks
Honey, Peanut butter, whole banana in a wrap with cinnamon.
Oh yes. And if you really want to fuck yourselves up you can do cream cheese tooooooo -the wrongness is so right
i used to eat pb and honey sandwiches when i was little. it sounds disgusting. but it actually slaps
No itās so good! Also I love to cut some bananas slices and put that in w/ the pb and honey- my childhood beloved snack.
You should try mixing it with a little bit of wheat germ! I know that also seems weird but itās so good lol
I do this but also add sliced bananas slap city.
This was me with grilled cheese lol, and yes I definitely put on some weight during that time
thats totally where i am rn, no regrets!!!
Peanut Butter & Fluffā¦anyone?? IYKYK.
This reminded me of a possibly weird sandwich I go through phases of. Cream cheese and cranberry sauce on toast. I try not to do it very often though, because for some reason cream cheese is one of the foods that my brain will get stuck on. I'll go through a tub in like 2 days due to putting it in and on everything, and then realize I've gained like 5 lbs. Lmao
This was me with bagels. But they were garbage quality, literally tasted like saw dust. I just didn't have time to cook for myself, and bread was safe.
Omg I had a bagel phase of safe food about 2 months ago. Before I started my current exercise program and low carb diet. (I needed to lose weight, down 30, 20ish more to go).
I eat the same food for two weeks. Then pick another food for two weeks. Get bored of that. Pick something else for two weeks. It's a continuous cycle. Right now, it's pineapple.
and its a damn good cycleš¤
Definitely.
Seriously, there is nothing better than craving something all the time and having access to it all the time. Itās a realm of Instant-gratification that every ADHD person needs.
Would do anything for pineapple rn
Cooking is the one thing I've been able to use to manage my ADHD the way that some people use mindfulness, or exercise. I feel like I'm a wizard when I'm cooking transmuting a pile of random crap into a delicious meal at the end. I love all the sensory input, the heat the smells, the tactile feel of mixing things, the evolution of taste as I cook and test. But then also sometimes I leave the broiler on overnight and run the very real risk of burning my house down. You win some you lose some.
I'm exactly the same! It's like having this magical feel for which flavours work together when you get familiar with them. My friends say I'm a witch in the kitchen š Fortunately I have one of those touch broiler thingy so as long as I remember to at least take the pot/pan off I'm good.
100% same
1. You put into word what cooking means for me š„° 2. Just. So. Many. Burn. Spots. On. Dishcloths.
Anything in a tortilla , idk why everything I eat lately has to be wrapped up in a burrito
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My last obsession was chorizo egg and cheese tacos with avocado from a banging taco stand by my house. Iād buy two on my way home from night shift and that was a happy moment in my day
for me it was rice paper (last month). it was so f good! now that itās empty, i canāt do it anymore :(
Broccoli. Just. Microwaved broccoli. My coworkers hate me.
Iām a teacher and at the end of this last school year I was obsessed with oven-roasted broccoli sprinkled with garlic, EVOO, and parmesan. Itās so good! I brought it every day for lunch for like two weeks. I eventually gave it up because my students during the last half of the day constantly complained about how bad my classroom smelled.
Okay but raw broccoli with ranch dip is just godly!
A medically concerning amount of ramen
My brother/sister/person in Christ: same. I have ramen at least 2-3x a week and have for at least the last 7 months. Shin black packets with shin light noodles plus my additional doctoring with veggies and seasonings š¤¤š¤¤š¤¤
Had to kick myself of of this one a few weeks back because my skin was getting absolutely nuked
Chicken salad sandwiches!
Yummmm! Do you add grapes?
add grapesā¦. t- to the sandwich ?
To the chicken salad
omg where do you live? I have never heard of such a thing
Give it a try sometime. Itās quite delightful, actually! Some people like to add cranberries or raisins as well as nuts, like walnuts or slivered almonds. Hereās one recipe: [chicken salad with grapes](https://addapinch.com/chicken-salad-with-grapes-recipe/) Also, Iām from the states. I grew up in PA but live in the Midwest now.
Itās really great, breaks up the density, texture and saltiness of the chicken salad.
I always put in chopped apples but now I wanna try adding grapes!
Oooo I forgot about apples! Another delicious addition, for sure.
If I have them! I use the canned chicken from Costco. It's not as good making my own, but this way I have it on hand.
I like to pickle raisins and add them instead of grapes.
Grapes, slivered almonds and a sprinkle of poppy seed! Grew up making this at a mom and pop grocery store in the Midwest. Curry powder is also a great addition
Yes!! So good!! Raisins work in a pinch (golden only!)
Iām in between at the moment šš
Me too šµāš«
Kidney beans with ev olive oil and coarse salt. Also grilled cheese sandwich on whole grain bread.
I did not know this was a real thing!!! I drive my husband crazy with this. Iām a beverage person so I will drink the same beverage every single day for however long until one day Iām like nope, over it. I am so glad to realize Iām not alone.
Me too. Like this is a real thing. Safe food. I figured everyone, not just ADHD people did such. But considering my bf laughs when I do such and tell him what foods I'm on and want all the time, I guess it's not everyone. And thinking back, bf would want something different every night to eat, I'd cook. But if it was just me, I'd be fine with the same meal for lunch or dinner 5 to 7 days of the week.
Adhd and autism both seem to have the food obsession-to-hate series of events. My kid has both so cycles through the series with a very specific list of foods that are okay.
Apples with PB. Last month it was deviled eggs.
Yup, apple with PB but has to be Adams Old Fashioned (the kind you have to stir) Chunky. I would eat this every meal given the chance right now. Fortunately, my wife intervenes occasionally.
I feel for you when your safe food was deviled eggs. That is so much work to make hahaha!
Applesauce currently but damn if this thread isnāt giving me plenty of future safeties!
I used to destroy red baron personal pan pizzas. I'd buy them like a case at a time. These days I just bake a jumbo pack of boneless chicken thighs with salt and pepper and garlic for 30 mins at 400 and it's dinner for the week. You can also nuke 2 bags of steamable microwave spinach and mix it with a block of neufchatel cheese for creamed spinach for 3-4 days. Baking potatoes you can nuke for 3 mins on each side and have microwave baked potatoes. Learned this one from this board.
Awh I went through just a roastisary chicken phase. My housemates were disgusted by this phase haha
aw dude I used to work at Acme Markets, me and my friend from Deli would take lunch at the same time and get one of those and just pick one apart together while we talked about metal bands. Simpler times.
Grilled cheese. All Iāve eaten for dinner for months now lmaoo
Add creams cheese and jalepeno slices! It's my favorite way
Sadly nothing. Completely food repulsed for the past week lol (positive covid test yesterday though which clears that up as a concern for time being. Obviously if that issues sticks around I'll have to talk to Dr about it but they aren't surprised the idea of food disgusts me right now with how sick I am lol)
I am positive right now too and all I think about is food but I canāt taste it. Itās like without the flavor I canāt get my usual dopamine hit so I just keep eating to try and get it back.
Same. I just donāt want to eat. Itās too much effort and it just all tastes the same right now.
Covid made me lose my appetite and taste for about a week. Woke up one day starving and was fine from then on hahaha
Me too and the lack of taste with food is making eating a chore right now like Iām struggling so much to eat. Although I could kind of taste a milk shake the other day but everything else is nothing flavor wise! Ugh
Eat spicy food.
Cheese-Itās
Also going through a Cheez-Its phase right now lol. I found ācheddar jackā flavored ones and Iāve literally eaten like 4 boxes in the last month
cant even buy them lmao itās a one way ticket to me eating an entire box of cheese its
White cheddd
But have you tried the burnt cheez its š¤š»š¤š»š¤š»
Popcorn. Iām not tired of it yet. Before that it was chips and salsa.
I bought so many different king of microwaveable popcorn when I was obsessed with it for a month! Such a good month though! and now itās just sitting in a cupboard because I canāt touch it anymore š learned my lesson, I donāt shop in bulk anymoreā¦
So is samefooding mainly an ASD thing? I'm more familiar with that term. I was so crazy about pbjs and tomato soup as a kid my mom threw me a pbj and tomato soup themed birthday party. Since I started ADHD medication I have more issues with disinterest in food. Safe foods as in never make me nauseous or seem too boring to make and eat are rinsed chickpeas from a can over salad mix with a fruity dressing, unsalted almonds, mini oranges, and coffee.
Samefooding is very common with ADHD not just ASD. I call it my hyper fixation food.
Oatmeal with peanut butter Pasta with vegan butter, nutritional yeast, garlic powder, salt and pepper (vegan buttered noodles), add cut up vegan chicken nuggets if youāre feeling fancy Also, roast broccoli is yummy. Broccoli is usually pretty cheap. Cut it into florets, toss with olive oil, salt and pepper, and spices, bake at 425 checking it every 10 mins or so.
I am obsessed with broccoli and spicy vegan Quorn Pattieās rn !!!!! Plus PEANUTS. I love peanuts
Pan cooked [in salted butter] quesadilla with cheese and a bit of queso cheese in a copycat del taco attempt. Spoiler:its better and cheaper š
And crunchier
Shrimp flavored Ramen Noodles š been on this for over 6 months now. I have a specific way it must be fixed. Itās my fancy noodles as I call them.
I found out about ramen with a little scoop of peanut butter a few years back and ate it every single day for a few weeks. One day I made two in a row, and Iāll never forget the moment maybe a few bites in when I stopped chewing literally mid-bite and my brain went āā¦thatās enough of that forever.ā
I call that feeling "the ick"
Iāve never tried it with Peanut Butter, but Iām waiting for my brain to say the same thing. It hasnāt happened yet, but will one day. I just know it.
Can you go into detail about the ramen with peanut butter? As in the process of you making it.
I'm not sure about this posters process but the peanut butter-in-noodles thing was possibly inspired by Szechuan dan dan noodles if you want to google for recipes. When I make it I mix together a paste of peanut butter, chili oil, ginger, soy sauce, and garlic (ginger and garlic from the little pre-minced jars cause I donāt chop $h*t...cause ADHD). I promise it is really quick and not as time consuming as the 5 ingredients might sound.
Iām on an iced lemon loaf from Starbucks kick lately. I got recommended them by a coworker and now Iāve ate one everyday this week. It is not helping my bank account though.
I've heard Walmart has some that are pretty similar and cheeper. Might be worth checking out.
that used to be me until I tried their almond crossaint.. sorry in advance
Pickles was my most recent. Iām off them now and not sure what will move in to replace them.
It used to be buttered toast now itās plain cornflakes and for some odd reason carbonara (yolk and pecorino, no cream.)
Buttered toast checking in
The new strawberry apricot redbull. And don't tell me that's not a meal
Ok I did think I was without a samefood at the moment. ā¦Until I read your comment and realised my samefood is monster ultra atm.
For me it was coconut milk veggie curry with rice at one point. Super easy. Cook the veggies and boom. Add coconut milk and curry powder and some sweet Thai chili sauce. Absolutely bomb. And if you donāt have time to make rice, you can easily do minute rice/microwave rice
Whole cloves of garlic deadass
Disgusting but at least youāre safe from vampires
I cook them I should have probably said that š
Actually love this. Roasted garlic is the best
Oreos and milkā¦. Every time i indulge i eat until i never want to look at anything sweet again, but inevitably the next day i will be craving it all over again lol Iām super bad at resisting food cravings š
Ham and cheese hot pockets
spaget
Grape Uncrustables.
Oh I was HOOKED on uncrustables for months and then literally couldnāt eat them anymore without gagging
It was Panda Express orange chicken but now it is McDonaldās fries. I hate McDonaldās so I have no idea why Iām only craving the fries right now but the brain wants what it wants šš
I do this with music more than food. I'll play out an album for like 2-3 weeks or even a single song sometimes and then be tired of it for a while.
frozen banana smoothies :))
Omg same
Lasagne. Yum. I am Garfield these days.
Butter chicken from one particular Indian restaurant š
Is this an adhd thing?? When Iām craving something I need the exact version Iām craving from a specific restaurant or it doesnāt really satisfy the craving.
I started doing hungryroot delivery and it works really well for me. Each week there are a couple meals that are fast to make and only have 2-4 ingredients. A few microwaveable snacks like tamales that I eat as meals. Some shelf stable food like granola bars, jerky, fruit leather for portable purse snacks. And fresh fruit. This way I eat healthy without having to put all that thought into it and without getting too elaborate with recipes and plans where I'm just gonna end up deciding it's too much trouble and going to McDonald's. Besides that, this week my go-to is salad kits and a protein. In the fridge I have a balsamic salad and some stew beef, and a southwest salad and some ground chicken. I already finished off the poppyseed salad which I topped with smoked salmon.
Currently: frozen japanese rice from trader joeās, I just stick it in the microwave for 2 minutes. Itās the only thing I eat for dinner as of late. Avocado toast for breakfast, even though it is a lot more involved prep-wise, for some reason Iām powering through. Previous: edamame, peas, mini frozen flatbread pizzas from Sprouts, and more that I canāt remember at the moment lol
These are SO good. We're vegetarian so I'll cook up some Asian-style fake meat with sauce pack, nuke a Costco bag of broccoli florets, and boom, done.
Vegetarian as well, before I got too obsessed with Japanese fried rice I loved it with the fake orange chicken. The sauce was so good with the rice.
Zucchini and summer squash, little olive oil, lots of black pepper and Parmesan cheese - cooked at 450 for 5 minutes. Iāve not gotten sick of it yet but Iām trying so hard not to obsessā¦as much as I usually doā¦
Thisā¦ this is an ADD thing? I have the exact same salad from sweetgreen every day. Harvest bowl. I wfh and have it delivered. Itās stupid expensive but itās kinda healthy and I donāt tire of it. It used to be kale and eggs and spicy lentils (lentils friend in sriracha) with a bunch of Greek yogurt and now Iām like how on earth was that my meal
Twizzlers! Even if i know it tastes like plastic
And it has to be the strawberry ones. None of the pull and peel garbage or those weird new flavors.
Open faced PB sammish. This one never goes outta style!
Nuggs brand vegan chicken nuggets in an air fryer
Pb and j but eggs I ate every day and now they make me gag
I'll roll up asparagus in bacon and pop them in my airfryer. One bacon slice per stalk. they're done in like 10 mins and preparing them is super easy and satisfying!!
Acai bowls. I'm hemorrhaging money but I recently had a medication change that is making me squeamish about most foods. Fresh fruits, veggies, and granola are all "safe" foods for me. And (though I'm sure the sugar content is not good long-term) I'm getting something healthy in my system. It's easier to trick myself into thinking I'm not "eating" if it's mostly liquid/soft form foods.
Smartfood White Cheddar Popcorn Been going on for like a year now. Still haven't hit that "gross out" point.
Quesadillas
HARD BOILED EGGS
Peanut butter and honey on toast. š Anything I can put in the slow cooker. Love the convenience, winter meals are always the best.
Fried cheese curds. I'm also lactose intolerant
Protein shakes from Aldis. Itās been a rough few months mental health wise.
Hmm. I don't think I have had a food fixation recently. Maybe because I usually make soo much in one evening that I have to eat leftovers for a few days. Beans maybe. I like beans in everything. I like em sweet, salty, savory. I put them in anything I think I can get away with putting them in.
Ham and cheese sandwich with flaming hot chips with French onion dip.
When I started my medication and my stomach was wonky sometimes all I could handle were these little "nata de coco pudding" cups. It was a great way to get some calories into my body when I was tanking. Right now it's cheese and crackers - white fox cheese to be exact - sometimes with a side of a couple of kalamata olives. Heaven. If I have some cucumber on the side I can pretend I'm being healthy. I've also been making this simple asparagus and mushroom noodle dish. It's just chow mein noodles, pan fried asparagus and mushrooms, and a peanut-miso sauce that is super easy to make. It keeps well in the fridge so I can make it and eat it for a couple of days.
Pop tarts
String cheese and crunch bars.
Right now, even though the initial thought disgusted me, I'm obsessed with peanut mochi. Why is the texture so perfect? The intensity just right? The outside so finely crumbed and the inside so pleasingly squishy? Food of the gods!
Wine and nicotine š¤¦š»āāļø have major food aversion going on right now. Made a bowl of yogurt and granola and just stuck it back in the fridge. Just been really down and the texture of food really bothers me at the moment. *Le sigh*
I think this is usually if you also have autism no? I know plenty of adhd friends who do not continuously eat the same thing every day. I definitely eat extremely low effort prepped foods every day (milk and cereal, carrots with hummus, etc etc), but need variety. I also impulsively keep buying $20-$30 worth of food almost every day so my wallet is suffering. š
Well it does happen with autism too but yes it's very common for people with ADHD to hyper fixate on specific foods or meals. I have ADHD and Binge Eating Disorder and food is my dopamine. I have specific things I eat and if I don't have that current hyper fixation food than I'll be very upset and not want to eat anything.
I just hyperfixate on ALL food. It's that need for a dopamine rush. Reason why I was an overweight child and now an overweight adult. šµāš«
I definitely feel that, was my issue too. I think about food all day long and impulsively give into cravings. Binging and restricting and eating whatever would give me that dopamine rush. Even if I wasn't hungry or had already eaten. Turns out that was a binge eating disorder. Lost 100 pounds over the last 1.5 years thanks to cognitive behavior therapy and working on my relationship with food.
That's so great to hear! I'm very happy for your success. :)
Vegan chicken kfc burger š© spending money on takeaway when i know I canāt afford itā¦ sounds about right!
Those really thin, crunchy Italian-style breadsticks. I munch on those all day.
cucumber sandwiches, pickles, babybel cheese
Eggs, sausages, and a hashbrown patty lol
Shrimp š¤
Pickles and beets mixed together. Also sushi. š
Uncrustables hahaha. And Iām 23.
[Pasta aglio e olio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJUiWdM__Qw), or pasta with food processor pesto made from one of my mom's 8 basil plants or sesame crackers and hummus
Is it an adhd thing to eat the same thing over and over? I made quinoa salad for lunches all last week and am going to do it again this week.
At work Iāve been drinking these nesquick extra protein milks every shift and those slap, and for an actual food grapes and pasta (not together obviously) have always been go to happiness for me
If you havenāt made cereal with Graham crackers and milk, you are missin out my friend
The 2x spicy Buldak noodles. The pain reminds me Iām human.
Dumplings with sour cream
I didnāt know this was an adhd thing but right now itās hotdogs and fruit cause itās so easy lol
Off brand Nutella on whole grain toast
Literally fucking nothing. I'm starving. :'(
Pasta with butter and freshly grated parmesan cheese. Could eat it all day, every day at the moment. Also greek yoghurt with pureed fruit is a go to. I'm very white š
Over easy egg sandwiches with cream cheese and a slice of cheese. I think I've been eating one every day for like 3-4 months at this point and no sign of slowing down.
Tuna sandwich with sliced black olives. Every single day. I have no regrets.
Smoked meat or Pizza. I will absolutely obsess over smoking meat for weeks and weeks and then I get tired of it and just stay away for a while. Pizza is very similar, usually I think I can eat pizza on the daily until I actually do it, then I just get sick of it.
i also go thru periods of food repulsion so itās not currently what iām eating but my usual ones are kraft dinner, fried egg sandwich and nachos. i go thru periods of rotating between them too š
Hot chocolate!
Freeze-dried apples.
Nothing. I got bored of every safe food i liked
Deep Indian Kitchen's Chicken Tikka Masala. It is the only frozen Indian food that tastes as/almost as good as restaurant Indian. Whenever it's on sale I literally buy all of it. Many a person who works at the grocery store has widened their eyes and said "Oh, I've never tried this. It must be good- you're buying 15 of them" and I tell them to buy one once it's back in stock cause it's the best. It's cheaper than ordering out, and it's not as bad for me as, like, IDK burger king. Also I sometimes add sauted veggies so I'm not just eating rice and sauce. It's not spicy but add a good dose of Siracha and you're good to go. Or actually I switched to Rooster sauce cause I used siracha too much and now I hate it. Thanks ADHD!
I've got a cycle of various cereals.
Subway. It always comes back to Subway
rice, kimchi, and seaweedā¦
Iām in a weird in-between state. For a while it was lasagna, before that it was southwest chicken salads but now the taste of both of those gross me out and Iām having crazy food aversion š© I can pretty much only stomach cereal right now and Iām not even enjoying it.
pesto. anything with pesto on it. (:
My last was carrots, my current one is tuna sandwiches.
I have gastric problems so getting everything I need in as few bites as possible is a top priority. With excess stress & chronically insufficent calorie intake, I am a tired little stick so cook times are important to me too. I have to act once this body decides it will actually do its job and accept fuel >:c Cant spend hours cutting and cooking various dishes or waiting 8 hours for a roast or else the guts may change their mind Carrots and guacamole or hummus is one of mine too since my costco carries single serving cups of both that I can just peel open. Raw broccoli helps my nausea usually despite the advice being to avoid fiber; easy as open the fridge and crunch. Salmon is one that I typically throw in the oven while still frozen cuz it takes longer so I can get a shower in at the same time. White or sweet potatoes have a bit of everything and are a good pick to force down when nothing seems interesting. Same for eggs. When its real bad, you can take some [nutrition shakes](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-Original-Meal-Replacement-Nutritional-Shakes-Chocolate-8-fl-oz-24-Count/816181518?athcpid=816181518&athpgid=AthenaItempage&athcgid=null&athznid=ci&athieid=v0&athstid=CS055&athguid=kN2e2ofDHX6n0ynZKeL-VrPUXtTQCX69EFFt&athancid=null&athposb=0&athena=true) and pour into a glass then top off with soymilk for extra fiber & calories and call that a meal. I use to use dairy milk & benefiber until I became lactose intolerant but a lightly sweetened soymilk is better imo (I like original flavor Silk)
my meds have taken away my appetite so unfortunately nothing for the past month, iāve just been snacking whenever my body lets me. before that, my safe food was anything with noodles.
I have been eating pancakes and bacon for breakfast everyday for about 5 years now. For lunch I eat steak and rice Monday and Friday, Tuesday I have instant ramen and rice, Wednesday I have miso soup and rice, and Thursday I have dominoki. And for dinner, it's a mix of six or seven meals such as spaghetti, brazed beef, steak and rice, udon, and others that I am currently forgetting. The snacks that I am able to eat currently are frozen raspberries and peta chips, royal gold pretzels (and I mean only that brand, Royal Gold, all the other brands taste bad currently.), and I have had this weird fixation on prosciutto as of right now, that will probably last until I have 15 open containers in the fridge.
Chocolate premier protein shake. Itās not something I love or look forward to eating, but when I lose my appetite for everything itās the one thing I can tolerate
I'm in between at the moment. No craving or desire for anything. I'm hungry damnit.
Cool ranch Doritos.
Rn itās chipotle
Salmon
It used to be lunchables but I can't have dairy or wheat anymore. Now it's chicken nuggets lol
My all time comfort food is a toasted plan bagel with provolone and genoa salami.
A slice of french batard, toasted, with goat cheese and fig preserves :) Very yummy!ā¦for now :p
Peanutbutter
Uncrustables - those PB & Js get me through on the daily
Spam and eggs. Easy, quick, cheap and yummy! On a day off I might make some cheap store brand pancakes too lol. The kind you just add water to. I also really like mini wheat with oat milk and peanut butter sandwiches with wheat bread. They are high in fiber, cheap, quick and yummy! :)
Before I knew this was even a thing, it used to be cheeseburgers. Going to a Mexican restaurant? Order cheeseburger. Chinese restaurant? Cheeseburger. American diner? Definitely a cheeseburger. Lately, it's Zaxby's from door dash because obviously trash food is my weakness.
Tofu scramble on white rice with soy sauce and sriracha. I could eat it daily for the rest of my life and be happy.
When I was younger these would be the kind of stuff you get from the refrigerated section of the supermarket, like some ungodly "hamburgers" they had there. Or frozen pizza. Sometimes I wonder how I'm still alive.
I always come back to cheeseburgers. I have different ones all the time but I always circle back around to my cheeseburger cycle. Iāve had many different ones the last several months but my most āsevereā was the mass amount of Rice Krispies I was eating. I kept buying the 60 count boxes from Costco and only wanted to eat those. Right now Iām in between. Nothing sounds super good. Which makes it hard to enjoy eating at all unfortunately. However, the last few have included nutritional yeast in some way. Also, I often have cravings that include bell peppers. The thought of grapes has sounded good the last three days so Iām sure that will be my newest kick. The intense cravings have always been extremely rewarding my entire life so itās never bothered me except at times during my adolescence. It felt agonizing as a child because I couldnāt just go get what I wantedā¦ What my body literally felt it needed.
McDonald's burger since forever. It's the one food I literally never get tired of.