Who cares if it's normal? Your choice to eat a PBJ every day hurts absolutely nobody and if anyone judges you for it I'll smack them in the bicep with a rolled-up newspaper.
I feel like i have a basic rotation of foods i can make to feed myself that consists of mostly pasta/rice/potatoes/bread+whatever ingredients i happen to have usually mixed into a homogeneous mass of good tasting food(except with bread its all the stuff stewed and put on top of the bread).
On top of that i have a fixation on some type of food i try to master and will do versions of quite often depending on how complex it is to make. Currently the fixation has been east asian rice dishes(mostly different types of fried rice) previously it has been stuff like burritos, quiches, caesar salad
But also yes. Im lucky mine has proteins & vitamins, but these days I only get still l stuck with it a few weeks at a time. Then completely forget about it. Just ADD magic.
I used to be way more limited and improved over time, but there are still tistic traces.
I am usually willing to experiment with something new, but once I find which variant of it I like most, I'll almost never eat any other variant. I'll make specific meals the exact same way, order the exact same thing at restaurants, and be way happier for it. I also cycle through the same meals over the span of a week for most of them. I eat the same healthyish cereal every day, because while I know cereal isn't healthy, I hate healthy alternatives and how inconvenient they are for a minor meal. I absolutely hate certain mouthfeels or taste combinations. I will always eat onion rings from any restaurant that has them.
I basically expanded my palette by redirecting my autism rather than fighting it. I blacklist instead of whitelist, while creating a set of principles that guide my behavior. I convince my autism to favor healthy foods and variety, using the ridged thinking to combat the ridged thinking.
I discovered vegan maultaschen (dumplings, basically), which have the exact proportion of macronutrients and fiber that I need in my diet at large, and which can be eaten raw, fried, or in broth. They also cost €2.25 for /~600 calories worth, so very cheap for prepared food, but not really that cheap in the end.
Apparently black beans and rice are excelent and really popular in brazil.
Best part is that you can make huge amounts and freeze it, so you don't even have to cook often.
Preferrably add something else to add some more variety to it.
New uni and friends tell me that I shouldnt eat too much shrimp at the school's cafeteria cause its the only good dish and I will get tired of it. They severely underestimated my love for shrimp. Im motherfucking Bubba from forest Gump, I will eat shrimp in every way, every day, for the rest of my life if I can. I fucking love shrimp.
You mean my first girlfriend? She didn't have shellfish allergy but somehow she was allergic to shrimp specifically. Believe or not it didn't cause much issue but I nvr lived with her so who knows how it could've been
Glad to hear it didn't cause issues! May it never do so in your future. I knew a girl who loved cats and had to get rid of her cat(s) that she had from late childhood/early teens because her boyfriend was severely allergic to cats and there was no other way if they were to live together. Everyone who knew her thought she'd rather give up a guy than the idea of ever having a cat again but well there they go, I think they married two years ago (after dating for like 12 years). But the choice to never live the cats infused life she wanted was hard. Apparently she would have been more willing to compromise on having kids (despite really wanting a family) than on giving up cats.
