Since ARFID1 and ASD are pretty common together, I’d figure there would many of us in here that share similar issues with eating. Those of you that relate to ARFID, what are some strategies you use to maintain a healthy diet?
1: Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a feeding or eating disorder in which people avoid eating certain foods, or restrict their diets to the point it ultimately results in nutritional deficiencies. This can be due to the sensory characteristics of food, such as its appearance, smell, texture, or taste; due to fear of negative consequences such as choking or vomiting; having little interest in eating or food, or a combination of these factors. People with ARFID may also be afraid of trying new foods, a fear known as food neophobia. Wiki
I don’t know how helpful it is, but for me I had to logically just pick out the components of a relatively balanced diet and then eat it every day and modify the parts I didn’t like.
It’s not helpful in that it requires experimentation, but once you find the combination that works you can just eat the same thing everyday without thinking about it and you know it’ll hit the nutrition you picked.
To be fair, it took many years to get there and I still have days where I am overloaded and need to just resort to completely safe foods for meals (oats for me as they’re pretty bland/basic).