Aspies For Freedom

I usually do food prep (such as it is) on the weekends since I work during the week and can't get motivated.  I kind of eat whatever, whenever.....my friends consider me to be food-challenged.

I often have thai green prwan curry on a friday night.

I usually eat whatever, whenever. Sometimes I get too depressed to shop much and will finish off whatever is in the house. When I'm feeling better, I will make a crock pot stew or chicken or beef dish or a casserole.

Yes as much as my shift work allows I eat to a schedule. If I am on my own for a few days or a week I will plan a menu for thoses days in advance. I always like to know where, when and what I am going to eat.

My mum usually always makes the same food on the same day each week, and we eat at 5pm.

Other meals are pretty much just a random affair.

Sunday morning special :

2 slices of thick white bread
2 low fat sausages - grilled and sliced longways
1 boiled egg - boiled till hard and sliced
2 cheese slices
HP Sauce

A sunday breakfast fit for a king!

Guessing.

I can prepare my own spaghetti really well, brown hamburger (1#) in frying pan, suction out the grease, add spaghetti sauce (Prego is good), add a liberal amount of oregano to the spaghetti sauce, stir and then stir slowly until bubbling, turn off the burner.

Simultaneously, have between 1/2 and 1 gallon of water with small amount of vegetable oil in it boiling until it was bubbling vigorously.  Drop dry whole-wheat spaghetti noodles into water and stir for 9 to 11 minutes.

Drain noodles, put back in the pot, pour the spaghetti sauce/meat on top, mix.  About 8 servings, and best eaten right away.  You can freeze what you do not use in 3 to 5 days.
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Salads, I used organic once, but I usually prefer to take my chances with pesticides rather than certain types of natural fertilizer (unless they decide to irradiate it).  Besides, I brush-scrub tomatoes and celery, peel carrots and cucumbers, remove three or four outer leaves from each head of lettuce, and triple- or quadruple rinse each head of lettuce.

One head of lettuce, outer four layers of leaves removed, stalk cored out.
Four carrots, ends cut off, and peeled.
Four celery stalks, ends cut off, and brushed.

One tomato, bottom and top cut off, brushed.
One cucumber, bottom and top cut off, peeled.

1.  Cut tomato into four quarters, cut each quarter in half lengthwise and cut into chunks.  Bag each quarter.
2.  Cut cucumber in four equal parts, slice into slices.  Put in four bags.
(Separate cucumbers and tomatoes for maximum refrigerator life)

3.  With lettuce knife (plastic will not brown lettuce like metal), cut lettuce head into four quarters.
4.  On top of first quarter of lettuce, ripped into tiny pieces, two carrots and two celery stalks cut into pieces.
5.  Repeat with two more quarters of lettuce and each carrot and celery stick.
6.  Put last quarter of lettuce on (in pieces).
7.  Quadruple wash, trying your best to mix the stuff together.
8.  The lettuce, celery, and carrot mix goes into four Tupperware dishes.

Life span, usually 5 days (much less if tomatoes and cucumbers are kept together or added to the salad)
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Apples, brushed.

I don't usually eat on schedule but I try to have an apple and Honey Nut Cheerios almost first thing in the morning.
Lunch, spaghetti, salad, fruit jello
Dinner, exchange 3 oz of chicken or fish for spaghetti

I usually just eat whenever. Buying and preparing food is one of my bugbears. It's not that I can't do it - just that I somehow never seem to get too well organised. I'm not much of a salad person in general but like lettuce and carrots. I usually don't wash them but just take off any bits that look brown. A friend was scandalised but I said surely they must wash them before they sell them in the supermarket.?

I've eaten the exact same thing for breakfast and lunch pretty much every day for 18 years. Lately I've been trying to remember to have a nutrition drink daily.