He eats cheese pizza only, peanut butter, cereal, sometime yogurt, hamburgers sometimes, hot dogs, ham and cheese (but often not the bread), suprisingly buttered bread, toast and mostly food that comes in bar form. Granola bars and many of the variations of those. And of course ice cream, candy, and a variety of deserts.
What do you think would happen if you walked him through the process of cooking a burrito?
Ground beef, some cheese, salsa/mild hot sauce, sour cream, shredded iceberg lettuce, soft tortilla?
It sounds like he actually has a fair acceptable range of flavor and texture profiles… the good thing with like a burrito is that you can just basically eat all the parts of it individually.
My guess would be that the salsa/spicy sauce would be the most likely to offend…?
Or maybe if a burrito is a bit much, more like a quesadilla?
I did forget that he will eat some burrito/taco and quesedilla. But no spicey. He doesn want much more than meat, cheese, and sour creme. Sometimes he will eat terriaky chicken cut into small cubes in the form of a burrito. And sometimes he will eat plain rice, or plain pasta.
The fact is, he has eaten most things at least once with no issue. But then won’t eat them again for no obvious reason. I think it is less about a problem with the specific food, and just that he has some flavor or texture in mind any given day, and he will only eat that. There are very few things he will eat consistently.
I ask because well, I’m autistic, though I am the opposite of a picky eater, I’ll try anything at least once… but also I realize not all autistic people are the same.
Was trying to figure out if it was possible it was more of a texture/mouthfeel thing, certain flavor group, etc.
If I had to guess, based on all you’ve said, he doesn’t like spicy, and he doesn’t like … basically meat that is substantial enough that you have to actually tear through some tissue, while chewing.
If he’ll eat basically small chunks of meat… well pepperoni on a pizza, the slices are often large enough that you have to actually bite through the slices. So, maybe he’d be ok with sausage pizza, where the bits of sausage are fairly small?
That would be my main guess as to what the ‘inexplicable’ element of his tastes are… he can handle some hamburgers, because the meat patties are likely floppy enough that they’re not difficult to chew apart, but I’m guessing if you gave him a rare steak, he’d hate it.
It might be useful to try to see how he’d respond to just like, bacon, at different levels of crispiness?
Also that and he seems averse to spicy. I remember spicy foods being essentially just mouth on fire pain as a kid, but I eventually grew into having a greater appreciation and tolerance for them.
I’d say that even a cured meat like pepperoni would also be what I’d call at least very slightly spicy… whereas teriyaki sauce, in the US at least, is basically extremely sweet and not spicy at all.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 4 days ago
He eats cheese pizza only, peanut butter, cereal, sometime yogurt, hamburgers sometimes, hot dogs, ham and cheese (but often not the bread), suprisingly buttered bread, toast and mostly food that comes in bar form. Granola bars and many of the variations of those. And of course ice cream, candy, and a variety of deserts.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
What do you think would happen if you walked him through the process of cooking a burrito?
Ground beef, some cheese, salsa/mild hot sauce, sour cream, shredded iceberg lettuce, soft tortilla?
It sounds like he actually has a fair acceptable range of flavor and texture profiles… the good thing with like a burrito is that you can just basically eat all the parts of it individually.
My guess would be that the salsa/spicy sauce would be the most likely to offend…?
Or maybe if a burrito is a bit much, more like a quesadilla?
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I did forget that he will eat some burrito/taco and quesedilla. But no spicey. He doesn want much more than meat, cheese, and sour creme. Sometimes he will eat terriaky chicken cut into small cubes in the form of a burrito. And sometimes he will eat plain rice, or plain pasta.
The fact is, he has eaten most things at least once with no issue. But then won’t eat them again for no obvious reason. I think it is less about a problem with the specific food, and just that he has some flavor or texture in mind any given day, and he will only eat that. There are very few things he will eat consistently.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Ah ok!
I ask because well, I’m autistic, though I am the opposite of a picky eater, I’ll try anything at least once… but also I realize not all autistic people are the same.
Was trying to figure out if it was possible it was more of a texture/mouthfeel thing, certain flavor group, etc.
If I had to guess, based on all you’ve said, he doesn’t like spicy, and he doesn’t like … basically meat that is substantial enough that you have to actually tear through some tissue, while chewing.
If he’ll eat basically small chunks of meat… well pepperoni on a pizza, the slices are often large enough that you have to actually bite through the slices. So, maybe he’d be ok with sausage pizza, where the bits of sausage are fairly small?
That would be my main guess as to what the ‘inexplicable’ element of his tastes are… he can handle some hamburgers, because the meat patties are likely floppy enough that they’re not difficult to chew apart, but I’m guessing if you gave him a rare steak, he’d hate it.
It might be useful to try to see how he’d respond to just like, bacon, at different levels of crispiness?
Also that and he seems averse to spicy. I remember spicy foods being essentially just mouth on fire pain as a kid, but I eventually grew into having a greater appreciation and tolerance for them.
I’d say that even a cured meat like pepperoni would also be what I’d call at least very slightly spicy… whereas teriyaki sauce, in the US at least, is basically extremely sweet and not spicy at all.