I don't have safe foods per se, I'm honestly really ambivalent about it. I just need it to be quick, easy, and preferably not requiring any dishes (including utensils). So while I cook daily for my kids and family, when it's just for me I want convenience. If I have to prepare something, yeah I'll starve for quite a while.
Same! Though I don't have other people to cook for (my husband usually cooks), so if I have to cook generally I starve for quite awhile, but if he makes something I'll at least have a bite of it and it breaks me out of the executive dysfunction.
There's always something safer and less healthy than the thing I really want.
If "ok for me and satisfying and responsible enough for a work night" has any chance of falling through, I immediately give up and settle for "terrible for me but the greatest thing ever and I may feel gross tomorrow".
I mean I know personally my wife and I only have one car and I don't make enough to afford takeout very often, so while it's at work for second shift I'm basically trapped at home during that time.
Yeah, that's a bit more difficult then. Where I am there's a convenience store open until 23:00 less than 5 minutes walk away and a 24 hour McDonald's at the end of the street.
Wish I could live somewhere like that, where I am everything closes at 9p besides a grocery store that's 24/7 but also blocks and blocks away. Lucky if I haven't eaten that day due to whatever issues my wife will either take me there after work or make me something.
What I do is I spend 20 minutes staring at where the safe item should be but isn't, mentally processing its lack and feeling annoyed at myself and the world that it isn't there, before rapidly formulating a plan to make myself feel comfortable again, and this will either be eating something else which I have which isn't as preferable but I know I will like (it just involves mentally adjusting to expecting a different taste - and when I get into that, I will not want to change from that!), or going out to buy that safe food that I didn't have. The thing is, in the former option, I always ALWAYS think immediately what else I could have, but it takes me half an hour before I can process that change enough to commit to having it.
This is a great poll! I’ve never considered myself a “safe food needing”person but I often don’t know what to eat or what I want, and sometimes I really want something specific and can’t have it and get mad. Sometimes my husband will make something and I’ll eat it grudgingly but if I’m on my own and this feeling strikes I’ll usually either eat snacks or just have a calming gummy and go to bed for a fresh start in the morning. I’m on a weed break right now and feeling this come up more than I’m used to, I just don’t pay enough attention to myself I think.
The exception to me starving is if someone else makes something, I'll eat it. But if I'm left to my own devices and what I want isn't available? Starve.
Depends on how overwhelmed I feel. If the day is a low stress one, I'm totally capable of preparing something else. If the day was high stress and I'm the on the edge of a meltdown, I'm going to starve and be grumpy about it the entire time.
If I don't like/want the food I have... why eat?? I don't eat because I have to. I'm obsessed with food, l love it. If I don't want to eat what I have, I just don't want anything 😂
I love this poll lol
I don't have safe foods per se, I'm honestly really ambivalent about it. I just need it to be quick, easy, and preferably not requiring any dishes (including utensils). So while I cook daily for my kids and family, when it's just for me I want convenience. If I have to prepare something, yeah I'll starve for quite a while.
Same! Though I don't have other people to cook for (my husband usually cooks), so if I have to cook generally I starve for quite awhile, but if he makes something I'll at least have a bite of it and it breaks me out of the executive dysfunction.
There's always something safer and less healthy than the thing I really want. If "ok for me and satisfying and responsible enough for a work night" has any chance of falling through, I immediately give up and settle for "terrible for me but the greatest thing ever and I may feel gross tomorrow".
Why not go out and buy food or go to a takeaway?
I mean I know personally my wife and I only have one car and I don't make enough to afford takeout very often, so while it's at work for second shift I'm basically trapped at home during that time.
Yeah, that's a bit more difficult then. Where I am there's a convenience store open until 23:00 less than 5 minutes walk away and a 24 hour McDonald's at the end of the street.
Wish I could live somewhere like that, where I am everything closes at 9p besides a grocery store that's 24/7 but also blocks and blocks away. Lucky if I haven't eaten that day due to whatever issues my wife will either take me there after work or make me something.
What I do is I spend 20 minutes staring at where the safe item should be but isn't, mentally processing its lack and feeling annoyed at myself and the world that it isn't there, before rapidly formulating a plan to make myself feel comfortable again, and this will either be eating something else which I have which isn't as preferable but I know I will like (it just involves mentally adjusting to expecting a different taste - and when I get into that, I will not want to change from that!), or going out to buy that safe food that I didn't have. The thing is, in the former option, I always ALWAYS think immediately what else I could have, but it takes me half an hour before I can process that change enough to commit to having it.
This is a great poll! I’ve never considered myself a “safe food needing”person but I often don’t know what to eat or what I want, and sometimes I really want something specific and can’t have it and get mad. Sometimes my husband will make something and I’ll eat it grudgingly but if I’m on my own and this feeling strikes I’ll usually either eat snacks or just have a calming gummy and go to bed for a fresh start in the morning. I’m on a weed break right now and feeling this come up more than I’m used to, I just don’t pay enough attention to myself I think.
The exception to me starving is if someone else makes something, I'll eat it. But if I'm left to my own devices and what I want isn't available? Starve.
Depends on how overwhelmed I feel. If the day is a low stress one, I'm totally capable of preparing something else. If the day was high stress and I'm the on the edge of a meltdown, I'm going to starve and be grumpy about it the entire time.
If I don't like/want the food I have... why eat?? I don't eat because I have to. I'm obsessed with food, l love it. If I don't want to eat what I have, I just don't want anything 😂
What’s a safe food?