• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      I think everybody at my workplace is on the same food fixation cycle. It was shawarma every Friday for a couple years, then one day the same switch flipped for everybody and it’s not been shawarma since.

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        3 months ago

        What is it called when you eat the same food for the same meal for like years at a time? Now that’s what I call a fixation! :-P

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    3 months ago

    I feel like this is more an autistic or audhd trait. I’m way more likely to forget food exists for 24 hours than to ever eat the same thing twice in a row. My novelty seeking ensures my diet is pure choas.

    Those mangos are really freaking good though right?!

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      3 months ago

      I’m not autistic but I got the same with music, I’ll listen to the same genre/subgenre or artist for about a week straight sometimes.

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        Hyperfixations are a symptom of autism but not exclusively so. Anyone can hyperfixate, even NT individuals. It’s just more likely for those of us with the tism or ADHD.

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    3 months ago

    My kid has been begging for watermelon since last summer, when he did a 180 from despising it to being absolutely desperate for it.

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    3 months ago

    A month or so ago all I wanted to eat was mangoes, then the adhd goblin told me that mangoes are too hard and I moved on to microwave hamburgers.

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        3 months ago

        Instant oatmeal, plain

        50% brown sugar (chop it the hell up, it clumps)

        50% White sugar

        dried apple slices just crunched up in a bowl

        Cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice. Although you can just do pumpkin pie spice then add a bit more cinnamon on top.

        I added it all to taste and did little test batches until I got it the way I liked, sorry for no measurements.

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    3 months ago

    Hot sauce! Hot sauce on pizza! Hot sauce on pasta! Hot sauce on rice! Hot sauce on bread! Hot sauce in a spoon! Hot sauce on fruits! Hot sauce in a yoghurt because desserts are a social construct! Hot sauce on quiche!

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    3 months ago

    … now listen here … I keep my body on edge, it has no idea when it’s getting switched to a super healthy or to a super unhealthy “diet”.

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    Then the fixation disappears and you have a shelf full of food you never want to see again.

    Edit: on the shelf just above the expired food from the last fixation that never got thrown away.

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    When I suddenly fixate on a food, the shelf is not restocked, and even 2 or 3 days later, I can’t buy it again.

    Feel like “Truman Show”, as if the store and other shoppers are just some illusion for me and they can only restock in great numbers what I usually buy.

    Edit: Can’t believe it’s happening to so many others here!

    • Alk@sh.itjust.works
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      I once got a fixation with a certain spicy hummus. I emailed the grocery store to ask them to stock more of it because I was constantly buying all of it.

      The head manager emailed me back saying they would, and they would order a larger quantity just for me.

      I stopped eating that hummus 3 weeks later. I was so ashamed that I never went there again.

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      Sometimes I feel like I’m personally responsible for a store’s ordering system going haywire. Like, a store can stock like 1 or 2 of the item a month and be fine , then I become fixated on it and they need to start stocking 20+. By the time the store catches up with me ive moved on and they are stuck with dozens of that item.

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        I have literally seen this happen to my local dollar general with Cheese-Its Extra Toasted. They used to never stock them. I randomly caught a hankering for them after trying them out.

        They went from only ever having maybe 5 boxes on the shelf to having it 3 rows of 5 deep after a month.

        After 3 months I lost the hankering. Still get me a box every now and then though. They still keep that shelf filled.